Having started using header images two months ago, and having said at the time that it would likely change regularly given my capricious nature, I sat down last night to change it for the third time.  That would be four images in eight weeks.  My average smelled of obsessive-compulsive behavior.

So rather than manage it so haphazardly, each time archiving the previous image before replacing it with a new one, I took a few minutes instead and coded a random header image into the site’s theme.  At least with that I could blame the constant changes on programming rather than manual intervention.

If you’ve visited the site after the change occurred, you probably saw one of several images, or perhaps you saw more than one if you refreshed your browser or changed pages.

Now to really demonstrate how capricious I am…

As of now, there are 28 images in the header collection.  I’m not done yet.  I still need to add the rest of The Kids (only Larenti is represented at this time).  I also want to scour my remaining photos and add anything that stands out.  Anything that can be resized and cropped into an acceptable header image that is, for not every photo, no matter how impressive, can make the transition.  Many lose most or all meaning under those circumstances.

The pictures include things you’ve seen and haven’t seen, things captured with the S50 and the S5 IS, and things old and new.

I intend to grow the collection as time goes on.  It’s doubtful any photo will be removed from the album even if another of the same subject is added.  Then again, it might behoove me to reduce the number of items in the corpus if it grows unwieldy.  Given the simplicity of the code and minimal size of the photographs, that concern seems unlikely at best.

For those cursing me because they now have to sit and refresh the page a billion times in order to see every possible outcome, fear not!  I’ve created an archive of header images where you can view all of them on one page (for now, that is, as it could be split into multiple pages if the assortment grows too large).

By the way, that page is under construction.  That should be obvious if you read the descriptions from the third photo through to the bottom.

Can you say “copy and paste”?  I knew you could.