February
Firstly, anyone visiting the home page on the first of the month might have seen it go through several change before settling on content. This was down to another contact form issue, which seemed to occur when I edited the module and required a complete reset of the module code to fix it. Fortunately, the problem generated an on-screen error and seems to have only affected this site; the railway sites do not appear to have had this issue (in fact, I received a contact request from one railway site during the month, which gave me a sense of relief, and I’ve re-tested the LMS site after an update which gave no issues). The March selected images are the ones I’d intended to use for February.
As to February’s photography, well it was slightly less of a disaster than January’s was. I got three images; two of which were for an ongoing documentation project, and the third was the only image generated from a rather disappointing session locally and isn’t good enough to use on the site. The weather during the month was foul, certainly at least for the first half, although things did to improve a bit during the last week. I did attempt a last-minute session on the 28th, but this failed due to parking problems, and in hindsight I should have reversed the day’s itinerary as I think that would have still allowed to get what I was after.
March
I need 62 images to make the first quarter’s target, and
that’s quite a tall order when looking at my previous performance records for
March. The last time I exceed 60 images in
the month was in 2012, although last year I got 52 which was one of my better
March totals. I think I need to get a
couple of National Trust properties under my belt in the month, but I have a few
ideas on that, if the weather co-operates.
There is also a Dean Forest Railway Spring Gala at the end of the month,
which unless the weather is really bad, I plan to attend.
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