June 2010

Jun 13 2010

Zeedijk, Amsterdam Netherlands

Zeedijk, Amsterdam NetherlandsThis is a canal behind Zeedijk in Amsterdam. Zeedijk is one of the oldest sections of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It's a sight to be seen and a great time of day to visit is late afternoon.

Some refer to this area as "Little Venice" as it's one of the only places in Amsterdam where water goes up right next to house just like in Venice.

Canon EOS 7D with 55 - 250 mm @55mm 3 image HDR composite in Photomatix, tweaked in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta.


Jun 5 2010

Castle De Haar (From the Gardens) in The Netherlands

Another angle of Castle De Haar in The Netherlands taken from the
gardens. It was a picture-perfect day wandering around this wonderous castle.

3 image HDR processed in Photomatix. Canon EOS 7D with Tameron 10 - 24 MM @ 10mm


Jun 2 2010

Creating Custom Content Type Page Templates with Drupal & PHP

Creating Content Type Page Templates with Drupal & PHPWe were recently asked to create custom landing pages for a Google ad campaign for a Drupal site we developed. The issue we faced was that the layout for the landing page was not really close to anything in the existing theme.

Drupal by default can do custom node type templates based off any given custom content type (node-blog.tpl.php for example) but all that does is theme and customize the content area. In our case we needed to change the entire page layout. Well it turns out there is a Drupal PHP preprocess function that can help accomplish custom page templates.