Virtua Gallery - A photographic Journal

Sort of - at least. And not all at once - more step by step. When I started the Photography Basic series, I was thinking, that it would be pretty neat, to provide understandable information to terms, whenever needed.

So aside from explaining them in the tutorials, I thought of having some sort of a glossary, that would be an added info next to a term used.

First step was checking the available Wordpress database, which turned up nothing. And then after a more extensive search I found an old, unsupported plug in, that did what I needed. So I re-vamped it, updated it to be used in Wordpress 2.5 ( the original was written in 2005) and bent it to my needs, throwing out obnoxious marketing messages and pleas for donations. And once I got that working, I immediately thought of other use - why not extend it to a knowledgebase for animals and plants I shoot? I always wanted some reference for my own use. So I ended up with 3 glossaries.

Below you can see, what I got so far. To make it easy to distinguish the topic - the symbols indicating that there is an explanation available are of different type: a camera for Photography, a blue Paw for Animals and a green leaf for Plants. And to not let the whole thing go overboard - even if a term appears a dozen times on a page - only the first mention will have the explanation attached!

But bear with me - it’ll be quite a while, until everything is entered into the database. For suggestions and questions (and of course corrections of my inevitable mess-up’s) I will be grateful! Cheers, Klaus

Main Page	Topic	Example and Symbol
Photography Glossary	Terms you frequently run into	White Balance
Florida Fauna	Animals that you see on this site	Anhinga
Florida Flora	Plants that you see on this site	Primrose