Pleased to meet you!

I guess for following reasons:

• I do believe I created some photographs that are worth sharing with more people than only my direct family and the foto club. But that is up to you off course!

• There are some Projects on this site of which I am very proud and I wanted to share.

•  I never tried to develop a site and it felt like a nice challenge to build a good looking and function rich site.

When developing the site, I wanted to include options to leave feedback and to discuss. Having a registration mechanism in place helps in making this more secure and, for me most importantly, makes sure the feedback is not anonymous. Secondly, I expect to add new stories and picture sets to the site. Registration makes it possible to update you on new content via an email message. As such registration is free of charge and, offcourse, you can opt-out of emails in the account settings on the member pages.

Please enter the information in the form you will see when clicking the [Register as friend] button. Indeed, there is some double information (first name and full name (= first name + family name)). I use these for different purposes on the site, as it is quite complex to split these, I hope you will forgive me. You can enter a  nickname and small picture that will be used on the feedback and messaging options on the pages. All information can be reviewed on the member pages.
A password will be sent to you by email after registration. For security reasons, I have chosen for quite long passwords, needles to say you can store this password in your browser for future use. After registration, you can choose to login using a social account (for now Google only though).

After registration, a password will be sent to you by email. You can offcourse use this when logging-in. When you prefer using your Google account to login, you can go to the Member Account page to enable this.
When your password is lost, you can enter your email address in the login page and click the “Forgotten?” link, then you will recieve an email with the password.

Top right on the pages you will find the main menu of the site, this is mainly used to pages that are general available to everybody. Member specific menus are shown as well but will require member login to be used. At the bottom of the pages you will find the menu options as well. In the member menu these is a Maintenance option as well, sorry but that one is for me only ;-).

On the pages you will find:

• Buttons that show “tool tips” that briefly describe their function and will bring you to the page:

  Go to the Home or Main pages

  Go back

  Go to next page, generaly a picture set

   Click the camera to go to the picture set

   Click the eye to see the pictures

  Go to the member pages

  Shop

• Titles under the pictures that, after clicking, will bring you to the specific pages

• Loads of pictures that you can click to guide you to the picures sets or that will show bigger on screen

• Pictograms (with tool tips) will guide you thrue the various picture pages and options

• A picture set is shown revealing an eye on top, click the eye to open and see them all

• There are two types of picture sets: ones that show the picture at once (vertically) and another type that you need to click in order to flip through them like a book

• In a “vertical” picture set you can click on a picture to show them bigger. After that you can use the arrows left and right to go to the previuos or next picture. When you browser accepts it, you can type the [TAB]-key and [Enter]-key to got ot the pictograms at the end of the page

• When you are in a “horizontal” picture set, you can flip through with the arrow buttons on screen or you keyboard; left (back) or right (next) to go to a different picture or used the top right X to stop

• At the stores (indicated with a Basket-Button) you can buy PDF downloads or printed books of the stories and prints of selected photographs

• Sections where you can leave feedback on the pictures and even send messages to other users of the site with an explenation on how to do that

Hope this will help to get you on your way!

Yes, I do! As such not so much to get rich, but more to recover some of the costs of the site.
In the various stores on the site you will find options to buy stuff. This includes, low cost, PDF downloads, signed prints, cost effective poster prints and printed books. All products, apart from the downloads, are printed-on-demand, I do not hold any stocks and tried to keep everything as costs effective as possible.

The PDF files you can download directly from the site. Signed prints, I will ship via PostNL.
Posters and books are sent by drukwerknodig.nl, they currently use DHL to do that.

For products I deliver myself, you can select PayPal or the various options on the Stripe platform (credit cards, Apple Pay, Bancontact and IDEAL). When ordering Posters and Books, I use drukwerknodig.nl because their prints are beautifull (and cost effective). Payment and shipphing is handled by them. 

I limit the storage of you personal data to the minimum, information I need to store though:

• Your name and email address for access and to be able to send you login data. 

• I will periodically send emails on updates to the site. I try to add content to the site on a regular basis to try and keep your interest up. In the member menu, you have the option to opt-out of these emails.

• When you order a signed print at the site (which I personally print and send), I need to have your home address and it will be will be stored for reference. In the member menu you have the option to blank out you address yourself. Needless to say; please only do that after your have received the print ;-).

• When ordering a PDF download or Signed print, I will store the IP-address you used to order for reference.

• Payment details (except the fact that payment took place) is not stored. Payment is handled by external providers (Paypal and Stripe). Orders (for posters and books) are fulfilled by an external provider, they will also handle the payment process using a trusted payment platform.

• I reserve the right to delete messages and feedback (in the member section), I find inappropriate. Please note that all, also the private, messages sent on the site can be viewed by me as well.

• I will not sell or share user or order data.

• When I would decide to include tracking on the site or use user data for other purposes than this site only, I will inform you upfront so you can opt-out when you would want to do that.

I started development of this site as a complete newby, so in essence I developed all of this a few times from scratch. All in all the site was built using various standard components. For the people interested in that:

• As development tool I use the Blocs app ( https://blocsapp.com )

• To handle member management, I use SiteLok ( https://www.vibralogix.com )

• As shopping cart, store front and payment interface, I use VibracartPro ( https://www.vibralogix.com )

• To show the picture sets and the news-blog, I use the Blocs add-ins Iconic Gallery and Volt ( https://blocsaddons.com )

• The slideshows top left of the page, were created with Slider Maker ( https://www.miglisoft.com )

• For this FAQ and some of the "More …" options I use the add-in FAQPro ( https://www.bricsdesign.com )

• Some of the add-ins of Cazoobi ( https://blocs.store/seller/cazoobi/ ) are “under the hood” and for the Site Search option. All of them are instrumental to make the site good looking and easy to use

• The feedback options in the site are handled with the Messaging plug-in for SiteLok ( https://www.vibralogix.com )

• The Blocs add-ins from Blocsbuilder ( https://blocsbuilder.com ) are used to beautify the menu and footer

• The developers of the add-ins and user forum of the Blocs community helped me on my way when I got stuck!