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About Syv Ritch

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 15. November 2010 - 9:29

Syv Ritch Hi,

My name is Syv Ritch. Syv is pronounced like 'sieve' but instead of a long 'ie' it's a short one.

I'm located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It's on the Canada's west coast. It's a beautiful place nested between the Pacific ocean and the mountains, the Cascades to the East and the North Shore mountains.

I started in photography in the late 60s, that's the late 1960s. My first camera was a Kodak 126 Instamatic. I took black and white photos of my friends that I sold to their mothers, that was my first foray in the business of being a photographer: “Who's your customer?”.

My first “real” camera was a Fujica ST701 in the early 1970s. Then in the early 80s, I took a 17 years hiatus before going back to photography. I started this website in the spring of 2008. A large part of my photography “wisdom”, aka pounding the pavement, is in this website.

I'm currently working on pet photography and local travel/destinations.

Syv Ritch
604-432-6554
Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4R3
Canada
syv@foto-biz.com

Happy New Year 2012

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 3. January 2012 - 6:00

Happy New Year 2012. I hope that you had a merry Xmas and a happy New Year. It's the first post of the year, so I send myself flowers and say how great I am:

I spend a lot of time creating and updating foto-biz.

  • There are 1120 posts in almost 1360 days, that's a little bit less than 4 years → 300 posts per year. It usually takes me between ¾ to 1½ hour to write a post. The quality of the writing is improving, eventually…
  • In January 2011, Google's Page Rank was 2. In December 2011, Google's Page Rank is 4.

Merry Xmas 2011 — Happy New Year 2012

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 22. December 2011 - 6:44



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I will see you back on Tuesday 3-Jan-2012.

Dennis Ritchie Passed Away

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 18. October 2011 - 5:46

Last week, Dennis Richie 1941-2011 died. He was a man that had a very profound impact on our world. In the 1970s, with Ken Thompson, he created an operating system called UNIX at the Bell Labs. To develop UNIX, he created a computer programming language called C.

In today's computer and photography world, everybody is using his “stuff.” Every major modern computer operating system is written in C, the language that Dennis Ritchie created. Almost all operating systems are either derived or based on UNIX.

In Memory

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 29. August 2011 - 11:07

Coyote Grossman, aka totos, the dodoïte… died last week on 25-Aug-2011 at 2:30pm, just short of 15 years old. This is one of my favorite photos of him taken almost 2 years ago.

Hard working dog waiting for his biscuit

Foto-Biz.com: 3 Years Later

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 31. March 2011 - 17:53

I started http://foto-biz.com 3 years ago in April 2008. I only “advertised” (made public) the website after writing 25 posts.

  • Mar-2011: 15,000 people
  • Redesigned the website three times
  • 923 posts in 3 years → 307 posts per year

I started http://foto-biz.com to do something different, but the “monster” grew. I spend on average 8 to 10 hours per week, writing, maintaining, updating the website.

Foto-Biz Upgrade

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 12. March 2011 - 22:35

I upgraded the look of the Foto-Biz.

  1. It should be easier to read
  2. This is the first step in a few other changes like more photos (finally), workshops, ebooks…

Foto-Biz Tops for 2010

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 2. January 2011 - 20:32

Top Foto-Biz Pages

  1. Foto-Biz RSS feed This is surprising. I have more people subscribing to Foto-Biz.com than coming to the Foto-Biz.com website.
  2. Foto-Biz Home Page That's the home page, it's expected.

Happy New Year 2011

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 31. December 2010 - 8:03

Happy New Year. Make 2011 a great year:

Happy New Year 2011 Google style

Happy New Year 2011 Google style

Happy New Year 2011 Bing style

Happy New Year 2011 Bing style

Merry Xmas With...

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 24. December 2010 - 18:33

Merry Xmas 2010 from:

Merry Xmas with Microsoft/Bing

Merry Xmas with Microsoft/Bing


Merry Xmas with Google

Merry Xmas with Google

Photoshelter: Best of 2010

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 22. December 2010 - 23:09

Photoshelter has published their Photoshelter: Best of 2010 - Our Favorite Photo Blog Posts of the Year.

  1. Very interesting. It gives a very wide view of blogs that are photo related.
  2. The topics are: photo marketing, photo business, photo technique, gear reviews, photographers profiles, photo essays and projects, inspiration, opinion pieces and keeping it legal.

Upgraded Website

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 19. September 2010 - 21:21

As you may have noticed foto-biz looks different. It's a different platform.

  • I think that have converted everything. The keyword here is "I THINK". I will be going regularly through the logs to see if there is some stuff missing, and will add it as needed.
  • I have switched from a "wiki" platform, the fast creation of web pages, to a "cms" platform, drupal.

Technical Problems -- Backups

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 5. August 2010 - 23:00

What happened? The website didn't go down. I lost no article. Yesterday, Tuesday 14-Jul-2009, I was doing some maintenance when I realized that the "Tags", the column on the left and the link at the bottom of each blog entry with Biz101, Marketing, Pricing... where not being updated. As a matter of fact, the last update happened on the 7-Apr-2009, 3 month ago.

No problem, just reindex, about 5 minutes and everything should be OK. So 5 minutes later, I checked the tags and nothing, most of the tags are empty. So delete the index and just redo the index, right? Nooo! Still nothing.

Happy New Year 2010

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 1. January 2010 - 0:00

Happy New Year. Let 2010 be a good year for you from me and from my buddy Google:

Happy New Year 2010 from Google and Syv Ritch

Happy New Year 2010 from Google and Syv Ritch

Happy New Year

Submitted by Syv Ritch on 1. January 2010 - 0:00

I want to wish everybody a happy New Year.

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