SmugMug uses EZ Prints which I believe do ship internationally so this is the place to go if you’re not from US or Canada.

Take a look, comments welcome.

• SPAM-protected comments – most notably Akismet integration
• EXIF info extraction
• Ratings, per album and per photo

There’s also bunch of new developments, all very welcome and which shows that this project is in good hands. Introduction of Akismet allows me to re-enable the comments, which I had to turn off due to massive SPAMfection after just a week of the original gallery being online. I have good experience with Akismet in blog comments – I expect it to work the same here.

If you havent looked recently, there’s bunch of new photos of my little kid, as well as nice gallery of my last visit to London.

I also corrected some of the display issues with IE7 in the overall site layout.

I prefer to keep the photos on my own server. I will be slowly adding more and more photos there. Currently Aleksa rules that space and probably always will :)
Aside from his shots, I uploaded 233 images from our Paris trip in April – hope you like them.

However, the price in Serbia at that time was astronomical. The review says that you can find over the web in US for as low as $340, but here it was €600+, way above my limit for the first digital camera I’m going to buy.

When I left for the UK, I intentionally did not bring my Nikon compact SLR,to force myself to buy something. I first thought to buy it from one of the high-street sellers, like Jessops. Their price was £345 – still pretty much high, but somewhere in the league of current price in Serbia, which is around €420.

Luckily, a colleague from Finsoft UK told me to look on the Internet for much better deals. And there were really good deals: PriceRunner reveals online shops that sells it for around £250 – fabulous 1/3 off of the high-street price. I read the reviews for the several first listed shops and finally chose Digital First.

Being from Serbia, I first called to make sure they accept credit cards issued here. They said that it is fine, as long as I send them few scanned documents, like passport and driver’s license. No problem there.

I placed my order on Wednesday around noon and left my hotel as delivery address. DigitalFirst representative called me 15mins later, asking for the hotel’s phone number – probably wanted to check is it possible to make the delivery there.

Hotel confirmed and around 1pm I got email saying that everything is in order and that they only wait on me to send them the documents. I sent them and 2h later got the confirmation email that they have sent it out.

I payed extra £4 for AM delivery, since I planned to leave the hotel next morning. I was a bit worried will it arrive at proper time, but there was no need for it. Camera arrived at 10am, and I was happily trying it out.

Perfect timing indeed, as I went to Manchester that day. :) I’m now shooting everything I can, and you can expect that my Flickr page will have regular updates.

I’m very pleased how efficient DigitalFirst was – my warm recommendations for camera deals in UK.

First is Ten years of my life. It is updated daily as off-project of Matthew Haughey, of the A Whole Lotta Nothing fame. Some of the photos are simple, some have unusual composition, there are lot of focus-plays and some simply feature beautiful subject.

Second is 28mm. Updated monthly, this site features works of professional photographers as well as hobby photo-shooters. There are several thematic series per issue. Be ready to be surprised and amazed.

Both sites have RSS feeds, so you can track them that way.