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Got invited to do the portrait shots for a friend from uni’s boyfriend. He’s plays brass and is an up and coming conductor.

We had to get up early to catch the nice sun down at north narrabeen, but got some good shots of the film (36 exposures of TMAX400 which I had developed and scanned by the good guys at photoking randwick).

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So I had recently got the shits with part of my site. Nothing much really, just my photographs. When on the site, I want them clean and without borders, BUT, I want them to have a border when not being displayed as part of the website. How to do this without duplicity in images?

Along comes our trusty .htaccess (apache mod_rewrite). Basically, the gist of this is that it changes your url query at the back end (with or without showing you what it changed).

So this is how I did it. I want all jpeg’s not called from THIS site to have an additional 15px (default) border. So I go and write a handy little function that will add a 15px white border to an image it is given. All good and well, but how do we get the image to go there when called by a user (such as when I post images on websites for critic). This is where mod_rewrite comes in:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?your_domain.blah/ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)?.(jpe?g)$ your-image-manipulator.php?your_reference=$1.$2 [R]

and you’re away… easy eh…