I am a bit of a geek. Yea, big shock there. I bought my first digital camera over seven years ago, a camera from before they even measured the quality in mega-pixels. I have a few shots of when my niece and nephew were first born using that camera.There were better ones out there, and it was not long before I upgraded to an 2 mega-pixel HP camera. A camera the same niece and nephew now use as a toy.

I am on my fourth digital camera, an 8 mega-pixel Kodak. Over the last 7-8 years I have taken thousands of photos. Many of which I still have, despite loosing way too many to a hard-drive crash a few years back.

For at least a few years now, I have been looking for an online gallery to use to show off my photos, and in the process Of course being the geek that I am, I want to host my own gallery, not rely on a third party like Flickr. I have looked at dozens and actually tried out about a dozen. I finally have found the one I am sticking with.

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I think I have settled on a new theme, but I will get in to that more later. First, I also did up my first widget. Ok, first we need to back up a step or three…

I have spent a lot of time over the last year looking for a good solution for putting my personal photos online. I will write more later, but suffice to say I have settled on JuxtaPhoto (JP) by Jeff Harrell. I have about 300 images in my gallery so far, and have lots more to go through yet.

I wanted something similar to the Flickr pools and such you see on other sites, but since JP is rather unknown, nothing exists for it… so I wrote one.

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