Ivan Hurst
This is the Home page of the core part of my Website.
It is also the navigation page to the various parts of my websites.
Woodpecker feeding one of it's chicks at a local tree.
Ivan Hurst and family personal website
Welcome to Ivan Hurst's Web site. Browse around to find Natural History, cars and trucks, restoration, environment and travel to Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
If you have visited before, this could be something of a surprise, and perhaps you were expecting this as the next page. A lot of that page's functionality has been lost as the sites are transferred and transformed. You can still see the Main Content here, but hurry back, to this new and improved world.
The site covers my family’s hobbies, interests, holidays and events attended. It is mainly an image based site with some narrative. In addition there are plenty of linked photo galleries.
If you have comments or questions please drop me a line using the Contact Us page further into the overall website.
Let me explain what is included;
This the beginning of my main site, with contents below, together with
Sub and auxiliary sites.
A little bit of introduction first.
The site is under continual development and as such there are bound to be some errors and un-finished areas / pages. This covers over a decade of development and data gathering.
It has inevitably changed as I have learnt more and changed authoring software.
I started with NetObjects Fusion Essentials, upgraded to Fusion 12 then Microsoft Expression Web 4 and coding and have now moved to Joomla and Content Management.
The NetObjects pages are still hosted, but deprecated.
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Microsoft Expression Web 4 Travelogue pages are still hosted, but deprecated.
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The current selection of my websites
The main two parts, the most frequently worked on, almost daily are Travel and Genealogy. Generally alternating between the two.
Sometimes, it is Google My Maps, Google Earth, and ArcGIS Story Maps, which all feed into Travel, and sometimes it is Genealogy reseach. There are lots of activities and tools which support the website writing.
Then there is my photography. Lots of photos to catalogue, process, and some to display. Some used to support the travel website.
Travel
Travel, from the Grand Tour to Holidays and breaks
As a child my parents took me on several touring holidays in the UK and Ireland. I have continued the tradition of touring holidays in Great Britain into adulthood and with the family. I like to travel and have been lucky enough to have been able to extensively explore Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, in addition to Great Britain.
Hence, this again is a very large subject and has its own sub-sites, in order of development.
Travel
built in NetObjects Fusion. (old and decrepit)
My Travelogue
built in Microsoft Expression Web 4. (old and working towards retirement)
Ivan Hurst Travel
built in Joomla. (current and still under construction)
Special areas of note in the Ivan Hurst Travel site are;
Trip data
and
E Book, Tales of my first time.
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Photography
Photography together with videos and graphics.
The start of something big.
Mainly photos, with well over 150,000 in my LightRoom Library. Don't worry you don't have to see them all.
Unlike my lovely Mother-in-Law, who wanted to see our Iceland slides after we returned from our holiday. At the time she did not know what she was asking for. They had not been filtered, so it was just as they had been taken, all of them.
Three hours later, "Where are the people, ones? Where are you and Wendy?".
We had different ideas of holiday photos, me, the place we visited, particularly landscapes, whilst she was more interested in us as the focus, with the place in the background.
I have three different sites to redirect to, in order of development;
Photography built on NetObjects.
Retired
Just Photography
Built with Microsoft Expression Web in code and hosted at http://ivanhurstphotography.me.uk/ on a Windows server so that Photosynth, Deep Zoom and Silverlight would work. Photosynth and Deep Zoom are no longer supported and therefore the need for a special environment diminishes. In the process of being retired.
Ivan Hurst Photography
The Joomla Content Managed site currently being developed to replace previous versions.
Click on the SmugMug logo to jump directly to this external site run by me, and hosted on SmugMug.
Genealogy
Main
... Main not yet working on new hosting platform
Media
There are three Sub sites and entrance to those is on the pages with envelope icons on the Content menu at the top of the page. They are also below for direct access.
Enter my Genealogy Site
Go to my Photography page to select which Photography Site to jump to.
Go to my Travel page to select which Travel Site to jump to.
Enter my SmugMug Site.
Those are the off site pages, either as a full sub-site or a fully external site.
There is in the menu a section called Contents, which may have been called Products or Services on a commercial site. This is the bulk of the content of this site, and below is a outline, a taster, to tempt you in.
Those are the off site pages, either as a full sub-site or a fully external site.
There is in the menu a section called Contents, which may have been called Products or Services on a commercial site. This is the bulk of the content of this site, and below is a outline, a taster, to tempt you in.
Contents
Contents
It broad terms the contents of this site can be classified as below. Click to open the topic.
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Hobbies
Contents - Chapter 1 |
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Hobbies |
Jump to HobbiesA lot of my hobbies fit in with an interest in data collation and classification. Which in not surprisingly comes from my personality to a large extent. Psychometric tests in the past for work suggest that I am predominantly both data and ideas. Building web sites is a combination of art and logical application of data. Even more so with database and content management solutions. Family trees as a hobby involves a lot of research but also a huge amount of data management. Expand that to include an element of history and the thought process widens to include how the facts of a person fits with the socio-economic circumstance of the time and location. More time is spent on the computer after pressing the shutter release button on the camera, on the library and post production, with the possible exception of some wildlife photography involving sat in a hide for days on end, but that is not something I do, yet. |
Indoor hobbies Family Tree - Internet research and collation Photography - Collation of the photos, add keywords, location, titles and captions together with post production Computer and Tech - Building computers from the components and using them for work and pleasure, including developing websites. Also creating and developing databases and spreadsheets. Sometime very complex, which then drifts into the realms of Work. Creating a smart home also falls into this segment |
Outdoor hobbies Gardening - design, planting, pruning, and weeding as well as moving the lawn. Photography - Often of places we are visiting, so links to the activity of Travel. Sometimes at an event, or specifically just to take some photos. Also links to the interest in Natural History. Natural History - Wildlife. From creating a wildlife friendly garden, to being a member of RSPB and going bird watching, to choosing holiday / safari destinations that are wildlife centric. Motoring - Driving is a pleasure for me. Some very long distance, in a multitude of different modes of transport |
Events
Contents - Chapter 2 |
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Events |
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Activities
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Activities |
Jump Generally speaking my activities do not include running a marathon, completing in a triathlon or iron man event, nor playing football, rugby, or cricket. In fact none of the above, or anything remotely similar. I have been known to go on walks, but most of my activities are more sedentary. Holidays are definitely an activity, but they are covered, or will be, on my travel site. If motoring is an activity, I like that, along with vehicle repair and restoration. Together with motorhome conversions. Is that a hobby or an activity, or both. Arts and crafts, I also consider to be an activity, which in my case I include house renovation and decoration. Another activity is completing jigsaws. I think you have got the idea, not very active in a traditional sense. |
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Environment
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Environment |
Jump to EnvironmentThe environment is potentially a huge subject. Conceptually it can be a terrarium or even smaller, up to the whole world. Even things as small as a virus have an environment. I have looked at this subject as two sections. The first the wider environment, and the second the environment at home. |
The wider environment |
It is important how we use the environment around us. In the past it has sometimes been more about abuse that use. We are now more aware of the environment around us, in several different ways. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates |
Friends and Family
Contents - Chapter 5 |
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Friends and Family |
Jump Parents and grandparents, on both sides have sadly passed. Family is depleted. However, further afield family is slowly growing, with new finds courtesy of the Family Tree exploration and research. Friends go back to school days, people from work, and those met along the way of life. I have friends with whom I travelled over 40 years ago. There are also friends I have lost contact with and those that are no longer with us. |
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Work
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Work |
I am retired now, an am thoroughly enjoying it. Whilst a relatively short period of time, a significant element of my work was the time I spent travelling. First travelling overland through Asia and then working for Encounter Overland leading expedition groups through Asia and Africa. Travel is such an important part of my live that it has it's own section. Go to my Travel page to select which Travel Site to jump to.After my return from Africa, and a period of holiday, I started to drive a truck. I had a HGV class 1 drivers licence but I was only driving a four wheel rigid Refrigerated truck delivering frozen foods to shops in the South London area for Findus Foods, which included Birds Eye. That lasted a few months before I decided to return to my career within the Civil Engineering industry. My career in Civil Engineering spanned over 40 years. Starting as a student at Hatfield College in 1972 and officially ending when I closed my company, Ivan Hurst Consulting Ltd, and retired in 2019. My company was officially dissolved on 27 August 2019. |
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