Atratus's blog

After much deliberation I've decided to finally start offering higher resolution files of the photos for sale.

The files are unwatermarked and are well over twice as big as the freely available, watermarked images.

I'm refreshing the entire image database for the photo gallery. While this is going on there will be missing images in the gallery and the site will be slower than usual. Everything will gradually reappear, but it will take the better part of this weekend to finish.

I frequently get asked to send people the electronic version of the photo I have taken of them, and I occasionally do. I should admit that whether or not I get around to depends more on whim than time.

Labyrinth
Music for the Masses
The Drink
2001-03-13
Shortly after the discovery of the beans.
© Atratus

The other day, on the Gothic BC facebook page, I commented on industrial music. Now I'd like to illustrate my point:

Here's a tip for sending your photos directly from the gallery here to facebook...

Last night, in a fit of productivity, I redid the homepage.

My lovely wife Valerian and I are up well before the crack of noon working hard to make your world a darker place. She's checked for overnight orders at Art of Adornment that need to be shipped today. I've been busy collecting pictures to be used for visuals at Sanctuary and for Sin City posters.

I've added an improved comment-notification feature that, like every other site out there, allows you to receive an e-mail notice when content you have authored is commented on. This long-overdue features should make the forums and blogging a lot more useful.

It is on by default and the settings can be changed on your "My account" page.

After another round of posts from 3rd-world sweatshop spammers (i.e. people whose job it is to manually log into websites in order to circumvent CAPTCHA forms and post spam links) I've implemented a "troll" module that allows me to block IP, setup blacklists, and other means of fighting back.