Upgrading the Digital Command Center — One of the perks of our home is that it has a downstairs office. It is used heavily for working from home, personal computing and occasional studio macro photography. As we were doing lots of home improvements during the last 6 months and this room was to be cleared out…

Update: all photos of this trip are now published: Colombia 2022 - most popular photos - JungleDragon Colombia 2022 photoswww.jungledragon.com This in-depth travel report covers the 14th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy. Our latest journey marks our 4th visit to Colombia, making it our most visited destination. …

Update (May 2022): all photos of the trip are now published: Ecuador 2021 trip summary - by Ferdy Christant - JungleDragon Ecuador 2021 trip summary. With this collage I'm wrapping up overage of our 2021 Ecuador trip. Some stats and…www.jungledragon.com This is the 13th episode of wildlife travel by Henriette and Ferdy. A trip designed to satisfy our hunger to keep exploring the biodiversity of the Andes region, which we last visited in 2018 (South Colombia / photos):

The Big Hobby of the Tiny — 1. Introduction Roughly one year ago, I involuntarily triggered a personal butterfly effect by dipping my toes into the field of extreme macro photography. An impulse action that has ballooned and escalated in ways I could not foresee. This article documents my extreme macro journey as well as my setup in such…

A journey towards better color in photography — Introduction Hi, fellow photographers. I’m an amateur wildlife photographer from the Netherlands. And I have confidence issues about the color and color temperature in my photos. I’m a Nikon shooter photographing in RAW whilst using Adobe Lightroom as my preferred editor. This particular workflow has brought about a pain that has…

A giant little milestone 🐉 — We did it! The JungleDragon community has now passed the 100,000 photos milestone. A perfect excuse to write this rare meta post to discuss the State of the Dragon, in three chapters: Celebrating 100K JungleDragon’s history JungleDragon’s future Celebrating 100K Let’s give some meaning to the 100K photos milestone. As a superficial…

A possible solution — This is one of those posts regarding a super obscure bug/issue that costs me a huge headache and lots of time. I’m writing it solely to avoid you from going through the same pain. The issue I’m developing a PWA. It has a form. When I open the page with the form…

Introduction Earlier this week, a new chapter was added to the rocky history of Flickr, one that quickly escalated out of control, as per usual on ragenet. To sum up some recent events: on April 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr for an undisclosed amount. My understanding is that it was a do-or-die…

On demand ES6 Components without bundling — Quite likely you’re confused by both the cover image and title of this article, so let’s get both out of the way: The image features a Velvet worm, a high confusing animal. It’s not really a worm. Not a slug either. Not an insect, and not even an arthropod. It…