{"id":3058,"date":"2016-02-12T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2016-02-12T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:50:34","slug":"not-quite-phileas-fogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/not-quite-phileas-fogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite Phileas Fogg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been very lucky recently.\u00a0 In the past 12 months alone my work has taken me to around 23 countries. Whilst not quite in the slipstream of Phileas Fogg it has nonetheless been something of a wild roller-coaster ride.\u00a0 This has enabled me to greatly increase the range of my stock images, from orang utans to komodo dragons and Pitcairn Island to St Kilda.\u00a0 The down side (I know, I know&#8230;. I&#8217;m not complaining) is that time to sort, edit, key-word and upload this exponentially growing back catalogue has been in short supply.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3061\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmunroimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3061\" alt=\"American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) lying on a muddy river bank, Tempisque River, Costa Rica. www.colinmunroimages.com\" src=\"http:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001724-960pxCP2.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001724-960pxCP2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001724-960pxCP2-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001724-960pxCP2-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) lying on a muddy river bank, Tempisque River, Costa Rica.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Often this has been limited to brief spells in cafes or airport departure lounges with sluggish WiFi.\u00a0 However, the up side of a recent accident and a few weeks enforced recuperation in one country has been\u00a0 time to sit down and tackle the rather daunting task of sorting through almost a terabyte or raw images.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3064\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3064\" alt=\"The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhynchus) is a type of sea snake, or more precisely a krait, found only around Nuie Island in the South Pacific.  There is some debate as to whether it is a seperate species or a sub-species of the black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata) also known as the Chinese sea snake. Colin Munro Photography www.colinmunroimages.com\" src=\"http:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001727-960px.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001727-960px.jpg 960w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001727-960px-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001727-960px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001727-960px-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhynchus) is a type of sea snake, or more precisely a krait, found only around Nuie Island in the South Pacific.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am now doggedly sifting through these and uploading to my stoc images website <a title=\"Colin Munro Images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmunroimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.colinmunroimages.com<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a seachable site, where named galleries can be browsed (e.g. Norway, Cape Verde islands, Fish, Seabirds) or images can be searched by keyword, geographical area and other parameters.\u00a0 The opening page links to a small number of showcase galleries which I will rotate as I update galleries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3066\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3066\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3066\" alt=\"Grey-headed kingfisher(Halcyon leucocephala) Cape Verde Islands, West Africa. Colin Munro Photography www.colinmunroimages.com\" src=\"http:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001725-960pxCPED.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001725-960pxCPED.jpg 960w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001725-960pxCPED-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MBI001725-960pxCPED-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grey-headed kingfisher(Halcyon leucocephala) Cape Verde Islands, West Africa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So if you haven&#8217;t checked out <a title=\"Colin Munro Images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmunroimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.colinmunroimages.com<\/a> yet why not give it a few minutes during your next coffee break.\u00a0 If you have, then come back again next week and hopefully there will be updates since last time.\u00a0 Either way, if you have any comments or requests then please get in touch <a title=\"email me\" href=\"mailto:colin@colinmunrophotography.com\" target=\"_blank\">colin@colinmunrophotography.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[avatar user=&#8221;colinmu&#8221; size=&#8221;thumbnail&#8221; align=&#8221;right&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been very lucky.  In the past 12 months alone my work has taken me to around 23 countries. Whilst not quite in the realms of Phileas Fogg it has nonetheless been something of a wild roller-coaster ride.  This has enabled me to greatly increase the range of my stock images, from orang utans to komodo dragons and Pitcairn Island to St Kilda.  The down side (I know, I know&#8230;.I&#8217;m not complaining) is that time to sort, edit, key-word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[944,168,1],"tags":[980,956,975,950,981,983,986,987,982,984,985,978,977,979],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock-photography","category-travel","category-uncategorized","tag-american-crocodile","tag-cape-verde-stock-images","tag-colin-munro-images","tag-colin-munro-stock-images","tag-crocodylus-acutus","tag-flat-tail-sea-snake","tag-grey-headed-kingfisher","tag-halcyon-leucocephala","tag-katuali","tag-krait","tag-nuie-island","tag-stock-marine-life-images","tag-stock-wildlife-images","tag-stock-wildlife-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinmunrophotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}