Frog

I found this frog basking on a rock next to Kingsmere Lake in the Mackenzie-King estate in Gatineau Park, Quebec, just north of Ottawa. It was so blissed out in the sunshine that I was able to get really close to it and take a few shots. These were the photos that finally made me cotton on to the problem with colour profiles and the internet. The browsers I generally use, Safari and Firefox, can read various colour profiles and display images correctly. The problem is that Internet Explorer, the browser most people use, can't. I hadn't realised this, and had been happily posting images for months using the PhotoPro RGB colour space. After posting this photo I happened to look at it in IE and I realised that all my pictures looked horribly washed out to anyone viewing with IE. Oh dear. Of course, the solution is simple, I convert to sRGB and embed the profile before uploading to the net.

Details: Nikon D70, 105mm macro, f/13, 1/160s, ISO 200, 25 June 2005, 9.42am. Placemark.