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Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

History of the Nikon F Series Cameras

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 30, 2005

Researching an article on photography, I ran across an article written by Yokoyuki Tateno for Nikon on the The History of Nikon Cameras – History of the Nikon F Series: Nikon F4. The article literally opens the innards of the history of Nikon and the Nikon f4 camera body, using the history of Nikon’s camera […]

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Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part Three

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 28, 2005

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part Three Greensboro, NC July 6, 1998 The next morning, I awoke to a kitten in the truck and an angry old cat in the trailer. I put the kitten back in the trailer and let the old cat get angrier, and caught up with Linda, the healed Southern Baptist, […]

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Nanotech Moves Closer to Cure for Cancers and More

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 28, 2005

While our site is about travel, nature photography, and life on the road, and the use of the computer to make life easier on the road, every once in a while I stumble across a piece of news that is so exciting, I just have to share it. Wired News reports Nanotech Moves Closer to […]

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Nikkor 35mm SLR Lens History, Terminology and Technology

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 26, 2005

We’ve been shooting Nikon and Canon alternately for a long time. Brent adores his Nikon and tollerates the Canon, and I tollerate Canon, but use it anyway. When I started in nature photography in 1975, there was little information available. Now it is overwhelming, and the Internet has expanded those resources. I was delighted to […]

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Journal: Falling Trees and Friends – Part Two

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 25, 2005

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part Two Greensboro, NC July 5, 1998 We learned later that the storm that hit us brought with it something I’d never heard of. A “white wind”. The news described it as “not a tornado but a very unusual wind blast created when two extreme weather conditions came together with […]

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On the Road Full-time with Beauty and the Beast

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 24, 2005

Not long after our arrival here in Mobile, Alabama, we ran into Rita and Bob, a couple not much older than Brent and I who gave up their “American Lifestyle” to hit the road full-time about a year ago. Rita and I crawled into the truck for an all day excursion to the Fairhope Arts […]

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Keyboard of the Future?

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 23, 2005

Personally, as soon as they restructure the disaster of the layout of normal keyboards into something ergonomic and more intutitive, the computer will be limited. But here is a step in the right direction. Optimus keyboard by Artemy Lebedev has been announced. This is the design prototype and the finished version is due out in […]

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Have I Told You I Hate the Heat?

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 23, 2005

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1200 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA…THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND A PORTION OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER NINETIES COMBINED WITH A HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT WILL […]

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Journal: Falling Trees and Friends – Part One

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 22, 2005

Journal: Falling Trees and Friends Part One Greensboro, NC July 1, 1998 We have survived our arrival in North Carolina and are slowly beginning to get entrenched here. Tomorrow my mother arrives for our first “from home” visitor to our new “temp” home. I’ve gotten to know some of the people around the campground, especially […]

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Telling Stories from 1996 to 1999

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 21, 2005

As I start work again on my book, Home is Where Lorelle is, I will be posting some chapters here on our site in the Telling Zone under 1996-1999 when we hit the road full-time, crossing North America from Seattle to Florida to Arizona to Alaska to Florida and a lot of places in between […]

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A Legend is Gone: Scotty

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 20, 2005

Having been a fan of Star Trek for a very long time, even changing my schedule around to watch the show, I was heartbroken to learn that we’ve lost James Doohan, aka Scotty. Diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2004, he made his good-byes in public to the world and stepped into the shadows. The cause of […]

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Feeds for the Traveler and You

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 20, 2005

The term “feeds” is not about eating. It is about “feeding” you information from the web that you need to help you as you travel on the road or on the Internet. A “feed” or “webfeed” is a term for delivering summaries of web content, such as web pages, news, press releases, and other content […]

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WordPress Backup Week July 23-30 – Get Backed Up

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 18, 2005

WordPress is celebrating blog security and protection with WordPress Backup Week July 23-30. WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and website management tools, is sponsoring WordPress Backup Week July 23-30. Step-by-step backup instructions will be available in the online manual, the WordPress Codex, and online in the WordPress Support Forum to help you through […]

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Customizing the WordPress Loop for Excerpt Queries

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 18, 2005

I talk a lot about the powerful features and ability to customize WordPress on our site. One of the behind the scenes power WordPress “tricks”, if you will, featured on our site is found on our site’s front page. It involves some queries that ask several rather uniquely styled questions, and generates what you see […]

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CNET – Top 10 downloads of the past 10 years

By Lorelle VanFossen | Published July 17, 2005

Began in 1996, when we hit the road full time, C|net’s CNET Download offers free downloads of shareware and freeware applications. They are the largest source of such software products and continue to offer us some of the best programs through their online software distribution service. Their Top 10 Downloads for the Past 10 Years […]

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