Today I sent out a very rare mass-mailing ostensibly to announce some upcoming major changes to the site, but also to do a user "ping" to weed out inactive accounts.
You can have the pictures from the photo gallery as they appear on the site by clicking on the download icon in the caption box of the full view and using the "download" link on the image page view. Alternately you may right click on the thumbnail on the gallery page and select "open in new tab" or "open in new window" or "save link as". Bear in mind, however, that all the images on the website are copyrighted. These images may only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes.
No. Many of the pictures in the photo gallery are not portraits. The rating bar is for users to register votes for thier favourite (or least favourite) pictures on a sliding scale for the purpose of the Top Rated views of the picture gallery and the random pictures on the homepage, which are collected daily from the top 500 "worksafe" pictures. The only purpose of the ratings is for you to let me know what pictures you like and to make it easy to find the very best pictures in the gallery.
The more risqué pictures are put behind a "Not Safe For Work" (NSFW) filter. The gallery does not display NSFW pictures by default and a "Confirmed Adult User" account membership is required to turn off the filter. At the top of right-hand side gallery navigation (which slips down below the thumbnail block on narrow screens) there is a link "Turn off NSFW filter" - click it.
Wearing Black has been the hallmark of the coffee drinking intelligentsia for nearly 400 years. Back during the early Renaissance the rich (and therefore educated) were dressing in flamboyant clothes made with expensive coloured dyes and gold and silver decorations. In the early part of the 17th century as the Renaissance was spreading into Northern Europe the Dutch invented the first permanent black dyes. At the same time the Dutch were surpassing the Italians as Europe's premiere merchants and Amsterdam was becoming the centre of power and learning for Europe.
in the caption box of the full view and using the "download" link on the image page view. Alternately you may right click on the thumbnail on the gallery page and select "open in new tab" or "open in new window" or "save link as". Bear in mind, however, that all the images on the website are copyrighted. These images may only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes. 