I thought it was time to try and add some features to better show off my odd interesting photograph. To that end I have been playing with a couple of WordPress plugins.

I rather like PicLens because it enables sidebar widgets to rotate photographs. Unfortunately, I could not work out why it would not pick up images I had already uploaded (or uploaded especially for it). I have settled instead for Nextgen Gallery to help display some photos.

As I noted before, the trip was rather rushed so I didn’t have time to take many photographs — and, to be honest, the ones I took were not very good. So, as much as a test of the new plugins, here are a few photographs that I took while there.

If I’ve got the settings right, a click on one of the thumbnails above should enter a slideshow mode where the images can be viewed at much larger size. There is also an option to show them as a smaller slideshow embedded in the post (click the link above the gallery).

Finally, I’ve left the PicLens plugin working (but not the sidebar widget). If you install the Firefox plugin, there are some very nifty ways to navigate the photographs [update: I've actually deactivated this, with the Nextgen Gallery features and the sidebar widget not working, there didn't seem much point in keeping it running].

Have fun.