If you're one of the people who's logged in with Workspace over the last weeks, thank you! It's been great to see people working on their websites and exploring the application. There's been a lot of activity and progress... You may have wanted to design or proof albums, sell or share your images, or set up a Workspace website. On the other hand maybe you just wanted to check our pricing, or download Photojunction. No matter why you came, thank you! A short while ago we pushed our third major release. The last one was largely about the shopping cart feature, but this time we've added a number To View More >>

A small army of adventurers have been playing with Workspace since we took the covers off at WPPI, and the dev team have implemented hundreds of improvements, suggestions, fixes and features. We're proud of the team – and if you've been exploring, thank you! Here are two great deals to celebrate.   Annual Pro and Pro Plus Plans are half-price until 30 April Pro Plan: $145 for 12 months (normally $290). Pro+ Plan: $245 for 12 months (normally $490). FIND OUT MORE   Win free Queensberry Albums for a year To enter, subscribe to any paid 12-month plan (Basic, Pro, Pro+) before 30 April To View More >>

Simon Woolf is one of the most energetic and engaging people I know. When I interviewed him he was in Auckland as official photographer at our previous Prime Minister Helen Clark's investiture to the Order of New Zealand. He got a hug from Helen because they know each other that well and he's that nice a guy. A couple of nights earlier I'd spotted him on TV in the media scrum at Willie Apiata's Victoria Cross ceremony. Again he was the official photographer. And to complete the picture of a guy who's everywhere, one of his landscape images, of an unusual sunrise, had featured the day before in To View More >>

(Warning: contains references to blue-grass and rock music) Johannes introduced me to his friends, Lyttelton band The Eastern. That’s OK, nobody else has heard of them either, and that's the point of this post. A while ago The Eastern opened in Auckland for Steve Earle, and more recently for Old Crow Medicine Show. Old Crow who? Heather and I bought tickets anyway, probably the only people in the audience who didn’t know anything about the main act. But then they came out and played. I was hooked after the first few bars Ketch looked wry, ironic and after your girlfriend. Willie wore a Neil To View More >>

"And we rolled right past that tragedy" - Joni Mitchell, Coyote Joni Mitchell's song talks about passing a burning farmhouse in the middle of the night and driving right on by. It's a year since Christchurch's tragic quake and about eighteen months since the first shake, in which no-one died. Since then there have been countless ongoing tremors, many significant, much of the city centre has been razed, some hard-hit suburbs have been abandoned or feel it … and in our busy lives we roll right on by. Including us, in a way. We've been here in the bedlam of a trade show in Vegas - with no time To View More >>