Hello. Welcome to Clouded Drab, the photoblog of Harry Rutherford. That’s me on the left. ‘Clouded Drab’ is the name of a species of moth. I liked the sound of it, and it seems like as good a name as any.
I also have a normal blog called Heraclitean Fire. There’s further online evidence of my existence on Flickr, del.icio.us and last.fm.
I’m not a photographer by profession or training, as is probably obvious. I’ve always liked the idea of photography but when I dabbled, the results were usually disappointing. I decided to make a more serious attempt at it and see what I can produce. So I bought a somewhat better camera (a Canon EOS 350D) and a basic 50mm lens to go with it, and that, for the moment, is the entirety of my kit: one camera, one lens. And I created this photoblog to display the pictures. In other words, it’s a record of what will hopefully be a learning process.
So I’m not making any big claims for the pictures. But if you do want to use one for something, they’re available under a Creative Commons attribution non-commercial licence.
There’s one RSS feed for new posts and another one for comments.
Some software credits:
The blog is powered by WordPress.
I’m using Sandbox, the cunning WordPress theme with lots of semantic CSS mark-up so that if, for some peculiar reason, you wanted the third comment on any post in the category ‘catfish’ which was posted in November to be coloured pink, the CSS classes would be in place for you to do it. Which makes it very adaptable, but because I had rather specific needs, my version has been chopped around a lot. The Sandbox theme is released under a GPL licence; I find the GPL documentation deeply impenetrable, so I’m not sure whether I’m required to release my theme under the licence as well or what. FWIW, I’m happy to send you the files if you want, but fair warning: I was only designing it for my own personal use and I’m no coder, so the way I’ve adapted it to work as a photoblog isn’t terribly sophisticated or elegant.
And I’ve made use of the typography stylesheet from Blueprint, although I’ve probably edited that too.
WordPress plugins I’m using: Flexible Upload by Antoine Choppin, Get Custom Field Values by Scott Reilly, Custom Field GUI by Joshua Sigar, Better Feed by Ozh; and of course Akismet and Bad Behaviour.