BOOBIES!
Well, now that I've said what's on my mind, here's the rest of my babble:
I haven't had much time to work on photography or reprocessing lately. My memory cards are filling up slowly, my shot film shelf is overflowing, and photoshop is getting dusty. Why? Because I've been pouring all my creative effort into a webpage that I'd like to have online before I go shoot a wedding that I got roped into three weeks from now. You know, so my business cards actually send people somewhere other than a 404 not found page. It's not officially launched yet, but I figure since there's only 2.75 or so people that read my blog, I can post the working link here so you can watch the progress or toss out some constructive criticism.
Step on in, the water's fine.
For the most part, I have the framework pretty much finished. I'll be populating content to the photography gallery and the projects (blog-like) section over the next week or two before it goes live.
It's built on a wordpress platform, loaded into a GoDaddy server (please refrain politcal comments - I bought a five-year chunk before SOPA and I'm going to use what I paid for). I've also code-monkeyed the php here and there to suit my tastes.
Before moving onto the next paragraph, here's some big picture background. I'm not a professional photographer. I never will be. I enjoy it for the art. I enjoy doing crazy shit that shouldn't be done like converting instamatics to 35mm, making lenses out of soda cans, and taking a dremel to a nearly 100 year old box camera to give it a film-cylinder instead of a film plane. I'm always looking for ways to expand my art, try new things, and never stop learning. As such, I've hit the point now where the vast majority of that can be more easily accomplished through collaboration. I'm nearing the mechanical limits of what can be done with google and a backyard by onesself. I'd like to work with other photographers to see how they see the world. I'd like to work with models instead of filling up my apparently narcissistic portfolio with selfies. I'd like to cross media boundaries and print on cloth, sculpey (which I've done some test runs of), metal plating, and so forth. Basically, I want to get the best of G+ in this weird IRL doohickey-place-thingey. That's where the web site comes into play.
I don't plan on selling prints with it. The primary goal is to have an anchor point to a gallery of my better photo works so that when I hand out business cards, they'll have a nice, easy url and people can see a small portfolio that isn't overrun by all the esoteric and/or mundane shit I put on flickr. The secondary goal is getting regular subscribers to the projects section and integrating that with social media so friends/fans/loyal subjects can follow what I'm up to or dabble in varying levels of DIY. The contact section will have information about collaborating on projects and scheduled showings/galleries, and a small blurb about being able to work something out if you really really really must have a print. But mostly, I'd like it to be able to get people to say "Man, this guy has some off-the-wall ideas. I'd like to go work with him on something."
Well, now that I've said what's on my mind, here's the rest of my babble:
I haven't had much time to work on photography or reprocessing lately. My memory cards are filling up slowly, my shot film shelf is overflowing, and photoshop is getting dusty. Why? Because I've been pouring all my creative effort into a webpage that I'd like to have online before I go shoot a wedding that I got roped into three weeks from now. You know, so my business cards actually send people somewhere other than a 404 not found page. It's not officially launched yet, but I figure since there's only 2.75 or so people that read my blog, I can post the working link here so you can watch the progress or toss out some constructive criticism.
Step on in, the water's fine.
For the most part, I have the framework pretty much finished. I'll be populating content to the photography gallery and the projects (blog-like) section over the next week or two before it goes live.
It's built on a wordpress platform, loaded into a GoDaddy server (please refrain politcal comments - I bought a five-year chunk before SOPA and I'm going to use what I paid for). I've also code-monkeyed the php here and there to suit my tastes.
Before moving onto the next paragraph, here's some big picture background. I'm not a professional photographer. I never will be. I enjoy it for the art. I enjoy doing crazy shit that shouldn't be done like converting instamatics to 35mm, making lenses out of soda cans, and taking a dremel to a nearly 100 year old box camera to give it a film-cylinder instead of a film plane. I'm always looking for ways to expand my art, try new things, and never stop learning. As such, I've hit the point now where the vast majority of that can be more easily accomplished through collaboration. I'm nearing the mechanical limits of what can be done with google and a backyard by onesself. I'd like to work with other photographers to see how they see the world. I'd like to work with models instead of filling up my apparently narcissistic portfolio with selfies. I'd like to cross media boundaries and print on cloth, sculpey (which I've done some test runs of), metal plating, and so forth. Basically, I want to get the best of G+ in this weird IRL doohickey-place-thingey. That's where the web site comes into play.
I don't plan on selling prints with it. The primary goal is to have an anchor point to a gallery of my better photo works so that when I hand out business cards, they'll have a nice, easy url and people can see a small portfolio that isn't overrun by all the esoteric and/or mundane shit I put on flickr. The secondary goal is getting regular subscribers to the projects section and integrating that with social media so friends/fans/loyal subjects can follow what I'm up to or dabble in varying levels of DIY. The contact section will have information about collaborating on projects and scheduled showings/galleries, and a small blurb about being able to work something out if you really really really must have a print. But mostly, I'd like it to be able to get people to say "Man, this guy has some off-the-wall ideas. I'd like to go work with him on something."
sassie:
east coast is the best coast. 
orionid:
Agreed. And I guess I was being a little hasty when I said "all the best...."