Old Japanese house and lake

Hashima Chorus Festival

Today was the Chorus Festival for my school and of corse I was asked to shoot it. It was fun and the kids all did an awesome job. They rented out this huge concert all in Hashima City called "Sky Hall". There is one student in 3rd grade who recently placed 3rd in the world for rhythmic gymnastics and 1st in Japan in the junior category. So look for a girl named Kana Yokoyama in the Olympics someday. There are a few photos of her routine below.

Hashima City Chamber of Commerce

A few weeks back I shot a festival for the Hashima City Chamber of Commerce and they sent me the newsletter that they made and ended up using one of my photos in. I know this is not all that big of a thing but it's still cool to see my photos in print.

How to Use Large Images on Blogger

Tyler asked me how I made my Blog in wide format and I want to answer his question but first I need to give credit to Blaine for giving me the idea to do this. I had thought of this before but never got around to doing it until Blaine did it and I saw how much better it looks. Thanks Blaine.

It's actually really easy but this how to will only work if your using Blogger on your own server, FTP style. The "New Blogger" is different and uses different templates. I will see if I can work it out and will post that later.
So here it is, in all it's large images glory.

Step 1
Login to your Blogger account and go to your template page. Find the code you see in the image below listed under "#header {", this is the width of your entire blog. Change it to "width 970" like you see below.



Step 2
Find the code you see in the image below listed as "#content {", this is the width of the table that holds all the content on your blog. Change it just like you did above.



Step 3
Just below the "#content {" you will find some code that says "#main {", this is the width of your posts. Change it to "width 720" like you see below. You will need to save the images for your blog the same 720 px wide to post them. The last thing to do is test your work, hit preview and see how it looks. If you are happy with it save the template and re-publish your blog to see the changes on all your pages.



Step 4
The only other difference is that you don't use the normal images uplaod anymore. You know the one with the little mountain on it. Instead you will upload your 720 px wide images withe the one that looks like a page. See the image below.


Find the image you want to upload and hit the "UPLOAD" button.


After that you will see this screen, just hit "DONE"


And now your really done.

I hope this is helpful to you all and I will post another how to for the "New Blogger" soon.