Well, it has been way too long since I’ve posted anything new. Not because nothing has been happening! I’ve been busy at school learning to become a reading recovery teacher. I’ve also been busy taking/editing/ordering pictures. And I’ve been putting off posting until I figured out how to post pictures since WordPress took away the easy photo uploading tools. I’ll make seperate posts for the two recent photo shoots. And some more good news: we are in the serious planning stages of getting a new ceramic kiln! I’ll post more later…
A few more details…
Summer break is almost over… I made a few more changes since the last update. I changed the look of the news section (you are here) so it would look a little more like my main site. I also updated the links page so my links actually link. Now you can visit some of the sites that I find useful/entertaining. There are many more, I’ll have to add them when I find some time. Maybe next summer?
Mega Update
Last weekend I spent about 3 solid days working on and updating my site. My wife left me at home while she went to visit some friends in Lexington so I sat at my computer all day Friday and Saturday putting together galleries and tweaking a few pages. I was up in Michigan the rest of the weekend where I used my dad’s high speed connection to upload everything, check a few of the pages, and update my wordpress software. The few pages and galleries that I checked seemed to work okay but I’m sure there are still a few bugs to work out. Some of the links on the links page don’t actually take you anywhere. I also still have to finish the labels for all my work (title, dimensions, date, etc.) which could take a while. If you find something that doesn’t look quite right or there seems to be a page missing or a broken link or something let me know. You can either email me or post a reply on the blog here. I’m also working on setting up a new wordpress plugin that will email you each time I post something new. Anything to make life easier!
My First Gig
Another milestone in my photography career has been reached. I, along with my beautiful assistant (wife), did a combination engagement/family portrait session at a nearby park for some friends last Friday. We started shooting around 7pm and finished about an hour and 20min later. We did 20-25 different poses and I’m ordering about twice that many prints including some special effects and black and white and different views of each pose. I just finished the post processing a day ago and I’m uploading pictures to order prints as I’m typing this. The subjects got to see the unedited pictures a few days ago and everyone seemed happy. So as long as I didn’t screw up too much in the digital darkroom then I would say it was a successful venture. Not to mention everything that I learned.  This was actually more of a practice session in preparation for the engaged couple’s wedding at the end of the summer. I’ve heard that’s where the real money is at…..
Here are a few samples from the photo shoot:
 
 
 
Site Update (Soon?)
Though you can’t really tell, I’ve been working on my site a little bit at a time. I’m completely restructuring the galleries to make them easier to navigate and easier to update. I want to wait and update everything at once though so you might not see any improvement for a few days or a few months, depending on my priorities. I’ve got 2 gallery styles picked out but I want to tweak them a little bit. I re-shot some of my pit fired ceramic pieces and I have some other older work that I need to shoot and add. So expect something new in the future… but don’t hold your breath…
Here is a preview of one of the galleries:
So check back again.