The Internet Entrepreneur Diary

Image Source: YiLan, Taiwan by Me - This image has been enhanced!

Thanks to my brother. He took me to the wonderful place in YiLan Taiwan. While I am traveling in Taiwan for Chinese New Year, he is very kindly took me to the mountain. The forest in YiLan is very beautiful.

The air is breath taking. It’s so fresh that you can smell the pine tree. There is no doubt that breath the fresh air makes me happy. The only thing that is not perfect is a missing person. I wish my wife were here with me to enjoy the raining afternoon. It is very uncommon to see the rain like this in the hot sunny Arizona.

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Image Source: Svensworld Header - Blog: Living in Svenworld

In the past few weeks, I have started using header image in my blog post. I love photography and love to share my point of view about a photo. I love to take a photo and modify in my ways and show the best part of the image. I was reading the above blog for some time. It’s not much different than other blogs who wants to make good money off their blog. However, this blog stands out from other by showing you who he is and what he loves to do.

I have no excuse not to introduce his blog to my readers.

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Image Source: White Ligth… - This image has been cropped, rotated and enhanced.

Oh! Sexy Pink! I can’t really resist the eyes with the pink heart looking straight at me. It turns me on. Oops! It turns my business revenue up! Have you got my attention?

This is another example of using blog post header image to demonstrate the power of image. Picture speaks for itself. I have used this image on my fashion jewelry blog. I meant to spice up my sales a little before the Valentine’s Day.

The question is “Does sexy image drive your business revenue forward?”

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Image Source: a touch of Springtime - This image has been cropped and enhanced.

Have you read my previous post about using blog post header image? Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images.

Do you like my blog post header images? I have put together two photo collections that show you my header images in one place. I like to use header images in my blog posts. It gives my readers a sense of my photography taste and the topic about my post. I believe that a great photo will speak for itself.

Blog Post Header Images - Collection 2

Blog Post Header Images - collection 1

I have been asked by few readers with the following questions.

Do you sell the photos you used on you blog?
How do you choose the photos?
How do you know what to do to modify your image?

I will answer all questions one by one. First of all, using blog post image is a fun but time consuming task. My resources for my photos are either from the creative common licensed photos on Flickr.com and the photos I took in the past. Here are my answers to the readers.

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Image Source: Playing with some coloured pencils - This image has been enhanced.

[UPDATE] To focus more on the topic about entrepreneur, I have moved the Blog Post Header Image - Collection 3 to My Photo Blog.

Image Source: Harvest Time - This image has been chopped and blurred from the distance

Continuing my monthly effort to list the photos that I used in my blog posts, here are more photos. Enjoy and remember to read my blog post. You can see my first blog post header image collection from the following link.
Blog Post Header Images - collection 1

Or visit my Photography page for the collections.

If you like what you see, please help me to spread the world to your friends.

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Image Source: Noche de luna llena…Full moon night - This image has been chopped and retouched.

After I post “Does your blog make lemonade? Make your blog interesting with header images“, I have been using post header images on almost every posts on this blog. I believe that an interesting blog header image will give the post some nice vivid touch. It also gives the reader a better idea about the post. All of the images I used in my posts are either licensed by flickr.com or taken by me. I include all those third party photos under my favorites page.

In many cases, I modify the images and make them look even more interesting. I love photoshop, the best photo editing tool available in the digital world. I used a lot of tricks to enhance the photos, including retouching, burning, erasing unwanted spot, rearranging the objects in the photo, adjusting the contrast, adjusting brightness, setting auto color, setting auto level and many other modifications.

I will start a series of photo collections every month to list the images that I used in my blog post. This will give my reader a greater idea what my photography taste is. So enjoy the photos and remember to read my posts!

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Image Source: 2008 New Year - Taipei 101

Just about 10 days ago, I experience the best fireworks in my life at Taipei 101, Taiwan. The fireworks were so huge that make me feel that the formal tallest building in the world is going to explode. It attracted more than half million people getting together and watching the show.

If you read my previous post at Happy New Year - The best and the last fireworks at Taipei 101, you can see the video and experience some greatest fireworks in the world.

Few days ago, I received an email from a friend. He put together all these wonderful photos. Here are some more to share with you. 2008 New Year - Taipei 101. If you by chance knowing who took those photos, please let me know. I will give them credit!

You can also visit my Flickr profile for more of my photos. Hope you enjoy them!

Have you made your wish yet? I am sure I did!

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Image Source: when life gives you lemons, make the best lemonade ever

I have been reading some professional blogs such as Dosh Dosh’s Internet Marketing and Social Media for sometime. One of the blogging tips is to add images to your blog post and makes the post more interesting. It gives the post fresh look and space to breath. It also give the readers a first impression on what this post may be talking about.

I don’t always have interesting topics to blog about. If you know me, you probably know that I am more of story teller blogger. My post images always have some degree of connection to the topic that I am writing about.

To make my post a little big interesting, I find pictures from Flicks.com. There are so many great photos that you can search for and use it on your web site. All the images on my blog are chopped into 600×140 in order to fit into my blog template. They are also under the creative common license, which allows me to modify, post on my blog and give the photographer some credit. I add all those photos to my favorite photos under my flickr profile.

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