Hotel Webdesign While Waiting For Fuel Money

I have been stuck in the town of Soroti for the last 2 weeks, waiting on money from either my organization or one of the organizations we are partnered with to send money for fuel, it has been very un-organized and frustrating, especially since the accommodation I was provided with is still under construction and has no shower or proper toilet...

So I decided that was enough and I made a deal with one of the luxury hotels in the area to give me accommodation for 10 days in return for building them a website - thus putting them a step ahead of their competitors as the first hotel in Soroti with a website!

I had been meaning to learn drupal - the php based / mysql based content managment system way of building websites. Now was as good a time as any - it made the job very long as it was a huge learning process, however it is finished off and the website is here http://www.marcllayhotel.com

They wanted a white guy in some of the photos so since no-one was around I had to set up the tripod and shoot myself getting served dinner...

I did all of the photography on the website and alot of it is using a technique called HDR (which I had to read up and learn also) and enables pulling all of the dynamic range from the subject matter

 in the light and shadow areas by combining multiple exposures.

I will be off to explore some waterfalls near a mountain for the next few days (while still waiting for the fuel money which is stuck now because of the easter holidays) - I just cannot spend anymore time in Soroti! Then on Tuesday the Landrover with Robert the trusty driver will catch me up and we will be heading west to start work on a  project conserving various primate species