HOWDY, WELCOME TO OLDLANCE's PLACE

11 August 2011: 911 Emergency call notes to help you stay safe (opens in a new window)!

24 May 2010: Twitter? Facebook? SAFE? Check this (opens in a new window)!

Please take a second or two to note that the above Menu may look simple, but it is actually pretty involved; there is quite a bit of content on this site. EACH OF THE THREE LINKS THAT SHOW ARE CLICKABLE, AS WELL AS THE ITEMS THAT DROP DOWN WHEN YOU MOUSE OVER THEM. It is primarily a photographic site, some of the pages may take a little time to load. I apologize for this. I did choose to place larger images than necessary, I suppose. NOTE the little 'back to the top' arrow in the lower right corner of the page. Clicking it will pop you back to the top, as I did not duplicate the menu on the lower edge of the page (yet).

Have you ever experienced music (or noise) with some web sites? Been bummed when the music stops or changes when you change pages? OldLance has fixed that. This little player will open in a new, small window. You can minimize it, or just click anywhere else in this document and it will hide. It has volume, pause/play, jump ahead and back controls, a shuffle button, PLUS a link to close the window and stop the music. Just click 'MUSIC' below. Featuring The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (and Country friends), Hank Snow, Jonathan Edwards (not the preacher), America, and ME! 'Wow this place is huge!' (there is a lot of music here!). Don't worry if your cursor does not change, the link does work! I apologize that the sound level between selections is not better, but Adobe bought out Syntrillium, the makers of Cool Edit, my sound editor, and I cannot register this installation, thus I cannot save more than 60 seconds in a file. I am arguing with Adobe about this (their Sound Booth product is $Expensive!).

Play the MUSIC!

15 July 2009: A little guide to this web site. My wife made the remark that some of the words I may have scattered about through this place do not mean anything to her. I have hidden a few 'notes to self' in the underlying code that you don't have to see in order to view the page, and thus you wont. But I have mentioned a few terms that concern the layout (and mostly to use up a bit of space so I can observe what some of the changes I made on the fly, actually do to the document). These pages are made of small building blocks. The trick is to place them, and then MAKE THEM STAY put. It is slightly easier to move an image from one side of a column to the other than it is to move the kitchen to the other side of the house. Usually. For me, it has been a constant battle with these two columns, and they still aren't perfect. Now, IE8 breaks them too.

Thus, I advise you now that you are at the mercy of an old little kid with a million randomly scattered blocks in a tornado. Anyhow, some of the blocks are called 'divs', which are handy for holding stuff like a table with a caption, or a little box with a two-line border and a note plus a donate button, see left :).

A few little terms to loosely define, and you're free to range across the site. All you see here is by the grace of a hidden bunch of meaningless code. Some of the code is called eXtended Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, which I will call the building blocks mentioned before. Another sort of code you wont have to read, is contained in a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), which essentially tells the blocks what color they are, how large they are, where they are supposed to be, etc. There are standards in place, to insure that the most users can use the WWW with some degree of compatibility with whatever equipment they may have. I try to make sure my code is clean and exact; that it Validates. That explains the 'this page validates' brags.

I have been known as 'Oneshot'. I like the name. I have been called Lancelot too. I am Old, my name is Lance, I shoot cameras, so welcome to OldLance Photos. I have been called unprintable names too. I AM Oneshot, and it is a long story. Basically, I had never been very good at so-called video games, from Pong onwards (if you remember Pong, you're getting old!). I found a wonderful on-line game called Iron Wolves many years ago and played it until it died. When I had to choose a player name, I recalled thinking 'Well, Fiddlesticks, I guess I will give this game one shot'. Eventually, if you saw Oneshot's Corvette (a ship with hedgehogs and depth charges), your submarine was at serious risk, and the rest you can guess. Some of my photography is © Oneshot. However, there are a lot of so-called oneshot photography entities out there in the cyber-goo, so I chose a more personal name for my stuff. This photo does a swell job representing my photography goal. I think with a bit of tweaking in photoshop, I could bring out the perfection in the photo, but as we know, true perfection on earth awaits us in the new world.