The unfriendly website
Comments(0) I was looking at 
Antarctic Quest 2007 info page on Luminous Landscape, thought I’d have a look at who the instructorsreally are and what they’ve done in the past. A little background research, nothing more.
I clicked on the link to Seth Resnick’s site and came across one of the worst websites I’ve ever seen.
This guy is trying to promote his work yet does everything humanly possible to make you want to leave. I’d understand (at least I’d try) if there was anything on the first page that hinted at why going through all the trouble would be worth it. But there is nothing other than a couple of thumbnails and a whole lot of copyright notices and text nobody really wants to read on a photography site.
I was curious and played the game by his rules until I finally, after a long read of even more copyright bullshit, made my way to the actual registration.
No thank you sir. No photo anyone ever took is worth that much of my time.
Curiously he then provides a link to a portfolio and finally to the sitemap through which one can access pretty much every page on the site.
Now why would you first try to turn away visitors only to let them in anyway? Just weird if you ask me. If anyone wants to steal his photos they’ll get in one way or another (not that the 200px thumbnails are worth it). In the mean time he’s losing custumers for no good reason.
Another funny thing… he threatens his visitors by words like ALL ENTRIES ARE LOGGED and other nonsense yet his “clever” software ( see the bottom of this page ) didn’t get anything right under IE. Surprisingly it got the resolution right when I tried Firefox.
Let’s presume I’m determined to steal his photos and not draw attention to myself… why not just use a proxy or go to a cyber cafe?
I’m always amazed at the silly things people do to protect copyright over tiny thumbnails.
The way I see it he either has too many clients as it is, or there are simply too many naive people in the world.
