My "new look" website – A Portrait of Steam

philjones · Post by **philjones** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:32 pm

Over the last few weeks I have been working on a “new look” website which has replaced my old “fotopic site”. As I have recently added the finishing touches, I now feel it is at a standard which is suitable for viewing. As always, any comments positive or negative are most welcome.

Kind Regards, Phil

http://www.aportraitofsteam.com/

Union Pacific · Post by **Union Pacific** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:38 pm

10 out of 10 ! Brilliant photos.

alt · Post by **alt** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:44 pm

Phil,

Excellent stuff - especially like the slideshow effect. You've progressed a long way since the days when you asked me how I'd done the Crab video online (remember? yahoo elr steam group?)

Some quality photos there.

Shredder · Post by **Shredder** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:27 pm

excellent photography and indeed website design, would you mind me asking what cameras you are using Phil?

philjones · Post by **philjones** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:22 am

Thanks for all the comments guys. They are most welcome.

Shredder, I am currently using a Nikon D40. I wouldn’t say it’s the best camera in the world but it seems to be doing the job (at least for now lol).

Alts, I think I vaguely remember. Whatever happened to the ELR steam group site? If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it had some pretty decent stuff on there.

alt · Post by **alt** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:05 pm

philjones wrote:
Alts, I think I vaguely remember. Whatever happened to the ELR steam group site? If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it had some pretty decent stuff on there.

Phil,

'Vaguely' - at your age? You'll have no chance when you've got to mine then!!!!

The group was closed down by its founder but the 'add-on' site with the histories (to which you contributed greatly) still languishes online although I haven't looked at it for years so there could be gremlins and lost links now!

philjones · Post by **philjones** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:33 pm

Ah yes, of course! I do remember now lol

. Your videos were a lovely feature on the history pages (I think your videos where the first I ever seen online - well before the days of youtube ). To be honest I kind of lost interest in the whole Railway / Photography thing for a couple of years while I was at Uni. Mainly because I was always working weekends and so missed a couple of galas around the 2002/4 time. It’s only been the last 2 or 3 years I’ve seriously got back into it and so all the photographs on my “new” site have been taken within this time. Hopefully there will be a few more to come

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Shredder · Post by **Shredder** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:09 pm

I use a D300 Phil and I can`t get it to take photographs as good as that mate lol