I was actually first exposed to the idea of extreme unicycling at the Bay Area Adventure Film Festival a few months back. I was so impressed I ran out and bought Into the Thunder Dragon. It was fantastic, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested.
So you can imagine my surprise (and delight) to find out that someone very active in the extreme unicycling scene was a smugmug subscriber. John Foss attends many unicycling conventions and group rides, and brings his camera along. Check out some of his awesome photos:
(John has his images protected, so no previews today… but click through to the images, it is well worth it!)
Convention in Moab
Convention in Salt Lake City
Take some time to browse around his galleries. He has some amazing shots up there. Enjoy!
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Omar Shahine, the creator of the awesome Send to Smugmug uploader, brings us a really cool travelog of his trip through Egypt.
The awesome part about this particular travelog is that he geotagged his images so that you can check them out with our fairly new Maps feature:
Click here for the map!
And of course, to whet your appetite:
Enjoy!
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While searching technorati, I stumbled across these photos from a trip one of our users took to Bangalore for business. I thought there were some cool shots in the gallery, so here you go:
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Alright, have some great new feature enhancements live on the site:
Theme previewing. You can now, if you check the “preview” checkbox, preview a chosen Theme before applying it to your site. Once you’ve found something you want, uncheck “preview” and your choice will be saved. While previewing, your visitors won’t see your new Theme choice.
Customization previewing. For Power and Pro users, you can now preview your customization changes without potentially breaking or changing your site. See the customization page.
Keywords and Timeline are now Theme’d based on your ‘all pages’ Theme choice. Soon we should let you specify your own Theme specifically for either of those areas.
Timeline is now exposed to more than 50% of smugmug customers. More coming as we finish populating your timelines.
Three new Themes: Daddy’s Girl, It’s a Girl, and Wedding. Anyone want to do a Fall or Thanksgiving Theme? Get paid!
Performance improvements with Themes and Customization
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug with bulk settings where it’d return you to a bogus URL.
Fixed a case where your galleries and photos could show up in search even with a site-wide password (your password was still required to view the galleries)
Fixed a case where your galleries could show up in Browse even with a site-wide password (your password was still required to view the galleries)
Long Community names no longer wreck the community listings
Users who have closed their accounts are now properly removed from communities.
Fixed some more issues with non-latin foreign characters and AJAX
Replaced the ‘close account’ functionality on the control panel.
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We don’t really get a true Autumn out here in California. At least, not with the brilliant colors and heavy leaf fall that you can find in places like New England. So for everyone else who is missing out on the brilliant colors, here are a few random pictures:
(click on the image to see the gallery)
Enjoy!
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So I was browsing through the friends that Colin (see the previous blog entry) had on his page, and found some cool shots of rock climbing:
It would appear that there are quite a few adventurers in that group of friends. 
The shots were posted by Philip Mothena.
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One of the coolest things about working at smugmug is checking out other people’s travel galleries. I have a pretty long list of places to visit now just based on checking out other people’s adventures.
Colin Krause is a smugmug subscriber who spent a year travelling through 16 different countries. Luckily for us, he brought his camera.
Check out his awesome travel journals for more details on his trips!
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I stumbled across these fascinating photos of a bear attacking a bird feeder, presumably for a meal.
For an amusing read, check out the debate in the comments section about where this actually took place.
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We have a lot of crazy motorcycle people on smugmug (courtesy of the ADVrider crew primarily), so it doesn’t take too much searching to find some of the crazier rides they do:
These particular photos belong to a group of riders in the Puget Sound area.
I have been riding in the rain before, and thought I was going to freeze. I think I will pass on the snow trips.
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Every Halloween, thousands of people in costume, puppeteers and musicians turn out in The Village in New York City for the grand Village Halloween Parade. Their photos are hosted on smugmug, and can be found here!
A few samples to whet your appetite for the gruesome and bizarre:
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Be sure to check out the rest of their pictures on their site! Enjoy!
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