2025 Mocha Mousse

The Pantone color of the year in 2025 is Mocha Mousse, and I have chenged the colors in the theme of this site to reflect that.

From Pantones description of the color of the year in 2025:

PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort.

2024 Peach Fuzz

The Pantone color of the year in 2024 is Peach Fuzz, and I have chenged the colors in the theme of this site to reflect that.

From Pantones description of the color of the year in 2024:

PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.

You can see the new gallery here: White-throated dipper

2022 Very Peri

Pantone Very Peri

In 2022 the Pantone color of the year was Very Peri, and I used that as a color in the theme of this site. 2022 was the first year I used the Pantone color as part of my design in this website.

From Pantones description of the color of the year in 2022:

Displaying a carefree confidence and a daring curiosity that animates our creative spirit, inquisitive and intriguing PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri helps us to embrace this altered landscape of possibilities, opening us up to a new vision as we rewrite our lives. Rekindling gratitude for some of the qualities that blue represents complemented by a new perspective that resonates today, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri places the future ahead in a new light.

We are living in transformative times. PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri is a symbol of the global zeitgeist of the moment and the transition we are going through. As we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways. Digital design helps us to stretch the limits of reality, opening the door to a dynamic virtual world where we can explore and create new color possibilities. With trends in gaming, the expanding popularity of the metaverse and rising artistic community in the digital space PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri illustrates the fusion of modern life and how color trends in the digital world are being manifested in the physical world and vice versa.

2023 Viva Magenta

The Pantone color of the year in 2023 is Viva Magenta, and I have chenged the colors in the theme of this site to reflect that.

Pantone Viva Magenta

From Pantones description of the color of the year in 2023:

An unconventional shade for an unconventional time

Pantone’s Color of The Year, Viva Magenta 18-750, vibrates with vim and vigor. It is a shade rooted in nature descending from the red family and expressive of a new signal of strength. Viva Magenta is brave and fearless, a pulsating color whose exuberance promotes a joyous and optimistic celebration, writing a new narrative.

This year’s Color of The Year is powerful and empowering. It is an animated red that revels in pure joy, encouraging experimentation and self-expression without restraint, an electrifying, and a boundless shade that is manifesting as a stand-out statement. PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta welcomes anyone and everyone with the same verve for life and rebellious spirit. It is a color that is audacious, full of wit and inclusive of all.

As a nuanced crimson red tone that presents a balance between warm and cool, PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta is also a hybrid color, one that comfortably straddles the physical and virtual in our multi-dimensional world. It is assertive, but not aggressive, a carmine red that does not boldly dominate but instead takes a “fist in a velvet glove” approach. Exuding dynamism, PANTONE 18-1750 Viva Magenta is a transformative red tone capable of driving design to create a more positive future.

This color is used in the page footers, page content navigation, and as decoration in some other places.

For many years when I wanted to make a print, I would export the image from Lightroom in the proper dimensions and sharpened for printing. I would then put that image in an InDesign document to be able to type in the title and other information on the page with the image. I would then export the InDesign document to a PDF that I would use to actually print with Mirage Print that would handle all the profile and color management of the printing.

Well, after many years I finally sat down and automated the whole process! I will now export an image from Lightroom with all metadata (including the title, location etc.), and use a program I wrote to extract the metadata and add it to a LaTeX document that will be used to generate the the PDF that is used for printing.

The final print sheet will then look like this:

All maintaining of information on an image is now only done in Lightroom, no more manual typing or copy/paste.

I do the same for all images on this website, and the result of that process can be seen below.

This means that all information about an image will be consistent and come from the same source, Lightroom, whether it’s a print or an image on my website. As a bonus there is almost no work to create a print or publishing an image on the web, after the image is finished in PhotoShop and Lightroom.

Alabama Hills

California, United States - November 2015

I first went on a ski trip without my camera as I did not think the bird was there anymore (it was not there last weekend when I had a camera with me), but when it appeared I had to go home and get a camera to take pictures. An extra 10-12 km ski trip. Worth it!

You can se more images of the capercaillie here.

Eurasian capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)

Viken, Norway - January 2022

This was a major update, but I think it also was a major improvement over the minima theme I originally used for Jekyll.

And I will still continue to add back more images and articles as time permits. It will still take a while before all articles and essays are reworked and published.

And I will continue to add back more images and articles as time permits. Will take a while before all articles and essays are reworked and published thou.

I have also programmed new capablities into the site, such as slide shows and image compare, as can be seen in the essay Image Enhancements.

And I will continue to add back more images and articles as time permits. Will take a while before all articles and essays are reworked and published thou.