PicasaWeb and Analytics

Are you using Google's PicasaWeb to show and tell your pictures? If not, why not? It's the easiest way to share them on Google+.

If you are, and you want to be able to see analytics on your images, Trey Radcliff has discovered the way. As he states on Google+:

How to hook up Google Analytics to your Google+ Photos
Ever wonder how many views your photos are getting? Here is a fairly hidden way to connect your G+ Photos to Google Analytics! 
1) Go to picasaweb.google.com2) Click on the Gear Icon in the top right - Photo Settings (notice the gear there shows DIFFERENT things than the gear on Google+ (Why?!!)3) At the bottom turn on Photo Tracking4) Enter a new Google Analytics Tracking Code
How do you get a Google Analytics Tracking Code?1) Go to https://www.google.com/analytics/web 2) Click on the Gear icon on the right, then click New Account3) Give it any name you wish and for URL use:https://picasaweb.google.com 4) Finish the other fields and click Create Account5) Your new code is the Web Property ID you'll see on the next page. (Enter that in step 4 above) 

And that's it. Thanks, Trey!

Dog Park

Took the K5 with me to the dog park today. Here are some pictures from the excursion. You have to remember, it was less than 20 degrees there and snow all over the place. Well, except for where Rufus is standing in this first picture.

I decided to use sepia as a change of pace from color and black and white. I think it works in this picture and brings Rufus out a little more than traditional B&W would have done in the same image. What do you think?



This second image is ice on top of the stream. If I'd brought a tripod with me I might have been able to get a better shot, but I didn't, so this is what you get. I know what it is and I have a hard time seeing it, so this one is going down as "abstract." Ha ha ha!

Rufus, again. This time in the reeds as we're walking off the beaten path. I like the contrast between his black and the golden colors of the vegetation. He looks like a mighty hunter, doesn't he? That's what he aspires to be: a might hunter.