Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

I think I will take a little break from all this web tweaking stuff. I did make a lot of changes on all my pages. Modified titles, meta tags, keywords. I did verify html on most of the pages and fix small bugs which were found. Hopefully this will lead to increase traffic and rating and all that web stuff.
I will probably do few more things like adding link page and site map. The second one I have planed to do for long time already, but somehow didn't managed. I wanted to have some dynamic automatic way to generate that kind of map. So it will be all the time up to date and doesn't require any manual maintenance. maybe I just need to start with it. First simple and than improve it.
Similar stuff I try to do on top page. Something which will show latest stuff. Not only last new pictures put also news in projects, experiments and articles. So people can find them easier. I have noticed that only first about 10 pictures in each gallery have higher rating. My project page for example seems to be not visited very much. Articles are quite ok, most of the traffic there is coming from photo.net and search engines. I guess that is thanks to more text informations there.

Maybe all this web technical stuff is not interesting to you. I guess not, but I am busy with it in last few days. I will develop more films today and put some more recent pictures soon. And as you maybe remember I was promising some style change which didn't really happen yet. Frankly I didn't make anything what I would like. Anything what was in a way I had imagine. Yes I did try some stuff, but mostly it turns not good. But do not worry I am not giving up.

This is how south of Portugal look mostly in the summer of the 2004. Majority of the forests were burn down. Only from place to place you can find a little island in this moon land. We where driving in this burned countryside for over hour. It was very depressive. I do not know what is true on the fact which I have read later in Portugal newspaper. They wrote that most of the time, reason for those fires is cigarette thrown out of the car window. In temperatures above 34C I can imagine that everything is dry and only little spark is needed.