been testing the latest beta of lightroom 3 on windows 7 #shudder# (actually it’s better than vista but that’s not saying much). my favourite thing about this is that i can give the fantastic presets from ‘i brake for bokeh’ a workout (unfortunately they don’t work in the wonderful gimp). cracking scripts that are very effective, but not always subtle (which i love), and spice up an image instantly. lightroom’s well worth a try and the beta’s free…
been trying to do some panoramic stuff…stitching 4 or 5 raw files together. had some mixed results but they usually turn out interesting at least.
here’s one taken in queens park, glasgow. click for a larger view (not as large as the original which is over 14000 pixels wide…available on request). you could try the pandora plugin for the gimp.
glasgow’s (in)famous squinty bridge at night…or at dusk. bit of lomo processing going on. it spans the river clyde at a rather odd angle…hence the name. wasn’t too fond of it at first but i think it’s a grower. it has recently been joined by it’s brother…the squiggly bridge. see a map (which doesn’t show mr squiggly…not up to date enough)
been having some trouble restricting access to this site by ip address using .htaccess.
the traditional method is to use a format like this:
order allow,deny
deny from 10.11.13.14
deny from 16.15.14.13
allow from all
this wouldn’t work for me at all. the only way i could make it have any effect was to comment out ‘allow from all’. this produced a 403 error for every attempted connect.
i contacted my hosting provider (laughing squid) as i couldn’t think of anything else to try.
after some troubleshooting it turns out that sites hosted in the cloud (at least the rackspace cloud’s environment) require a different method to ban by ip in .htaccess. more info can be found here.
so i added the following to my .htaccess file:
SetEnvIf X-Cluster-Client-Ip “^10\.11\.12\.13″ DenyAccess
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from env=DenyAccess
Allow from all
obviously replace the ip with the one you’d like to block. if you want to ban multiple ip addresses just repeat line one and alter it accordingly.
so thanks to laughing squid’s support team…quick response as always.