WE’VE MOVED – NEW WEBSITE

Hello, this blog has now moved – please come and join me at my new website which you’ll find at https://www.rudolfabraham.co.uk Thanks 🙂

Season’s greetings

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all those following this blog – let’s hope it’s a better year for all in 2021. Thank you, and stay safe.

Instagram

Rudolf is now on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rudolfphoto/

Clockwise from top left: Wiesberhaus (one of my favourite mountain huts anywhere), on the edge of the Unesco-listed Dachstein plateau, Austria; the huge cliffs of Trisselwand rising above Altauseer See, in Austria’s Salzkammergut region; Antony Gormley exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, 2019; Three Mills – the largest tidal mill in the world, Bromley-by-Bow, London; Temple Neuf reflected in the River Moselle, Metz, France. All photos © Rudolf Abraham.

Walthamstow Wetlands (2)

Cormorants and pylons – two views of Lockwood Reservoir, Walthamstow Wetlands, London © Rudolf Abraham

You can see more images of Walthamstow Wetlands here.

Walthamstow Wetlands (1)

Covering an area of 211 hectares, Walthamstow Wetlands in northeast London are one of the largest urban wetland areas in Europe, providing an extraordinarily rich habitat for birds and other wildlife. A SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and forming part of the Lee Valley RAMSAR Site (Wetland of Interational Importance), the 10 reservoirs of Walthamstow Wetlands were built during the second half on the 19th century, with work finishing in 1904, and were opened to the public in 2017. As well as being a threaded with walking and cycling paths, they act as the main water supply for aroud 3.5 million people. I’m lucky enough to live just 5 minutes walk from one of the main entrances to the wetlands.

This is High Maynard reservoir yesterday, with the Blackhorse Mills development project reflected in the late afternoon light.

You can see more images of Walthamstow Wetlands here.

Rudolf Abraham photography – new website

Rudolf’s blog emerges from rather a long period of hibernation, with some news. After many years of using Photoshelter for my photography archive, portfolio and for delivering images to clients, I now have a new photography website with Photodeck, at www.rudolfabraham.com. Here are a couple of screengrabs from the home page:

As well changing the url from .co.uk to a top level domain, www.rudolfabraham.com, I also decided to limit the scope of its geographical coverage to Europe, in particular Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Montenegro) which along with France, Italy and to a lesser extent the Baltic states are the main focus of my work anyway (so, there are none of my images from Patagonia or Turkey here).

Why the change? Firstly, I was really impressed with Photodeck. Their websites are extremely easy to set up (the interface is rather different to Photoshelter, but once I’d got used to that I found it very intuitive), and it was a breeze shifting several dozen GB of images over from my Photoshelter archive via FTP. The home, gallery, image and portfolio pages look great (much better for viewing images full screen, and much nicer for progressing from one image to another), and are much more mobile-friendly and -responsive than the template I was using from Photoshelter, which frankly looked awful on a phone. Secondly, and very importantly, SEO using Photodeck sites is by all accounts much, much better than it is for Photoshelter sites – mine always tended to rank quite poorly (why this is I can’t say, but that was certainly my experience, and one of the main reasons Photodeck was recommended to me). There have been a few things I’ve been waiting for Photoshelter to change for years (such as improving SEO and mobile responsiveness), and they haven’t – although in all fairness I believe they are currently working on these and other improvements, and as an archive system Photoshelter is still incredibly good. (I still have the Photoshelter site and have no intention of closing it, but I’ve scaled it back slightly and now use my Photodeck site as my main archive and portfolio.)

You can visit Rudolf Abraham photography at www.rudolfabraham.com.