What's Happening Around the Lantern Room

What's been happening     If you arrived at this page, you are already aware that the Lantern Room has moved to it's own domain at "www.LanternRoom.com". The big step was taken for a number of reasons; to get more disk space on the server, to hopefully improve listings on the search engines which give a higher priority to .com sites than to home pages and to allow me to promote the sale of "stock images". With it's own domain, the ISP can be changed without changing the site URL or the Keeper's e-mail address.    As part of the move, the directory structure of the site was completely revised to make it easier to maintain. If anyone has direct links to any of the pages they will have to be updated.     I've tried to catch all the errors but, with as many pages as there are, there may still be a few goofs and I hope if anyone finds them they will take the time to let the Keeper  know.    Scotland pages have been added and the pages on Wales and Ireland have been redone with many additions but they all need the statistics and some text added. The weather on the trip to Ireland was lousy and, unfortunately, it shows in the pictures. Pages on the purchase of Reprints and Stock Images have been added.    Some scans of the East Coast lighthouses have been redone.    I don't plan to go to frames or anything that would require Windows 9x or better and late version browsers as many of my visitors are in countries where large monitors, large harddrives and fast connections are probably rare.   What's happening now     Right now the Keeper is just trying to catch up on a lot of details. The old site at WestNet is closed and visitors are being forwarded to this site. Onemain, the ISP that was hosting the site, was bought out by Earthlink which forced the relocation to an Earthlink server.   What's planned     The planned trip to New Zealand has been put off until November 2001. The Keeper will be traveling the entire West coast of the US, Cape Cod and vicinity and the Upper Michigan Peninsula over this summer. As time permits the covered bridge images from a trip to the New England States last fall will be added as well as some new Steam Train images. The tutorial on Fresnel Lens has proven to be popular so I hope to expand on that too with some new images. A site face-lift is planned and this page is an example of the new style but with close to 500 pages to edit, it's going to take quite some time to get it all done.