Archive for Photography

 August 14, 2009

Redesign and Rebrand

Knowing what I now know, after only a few months on the job at WebDesign.Com, I am ready to do a site redesign.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the site you see before you, but I am ready to start out the RIGHT way.  With all the work to get it to the “right” way, I might as well redesign, right?

I want my site to look good, and focus will definitely be put on that.  But more importantly, I want my site to be found easily.  Over the past few weeks, I have literally become obsessed with SEO on client sites.  WordPress offers so many opportunities to get a great Google ranking, and I want to build my site from the ground up for Google.  When I started this site, I barely knew what a meta-tag was.  Now, I am pretty competent with the tricks of the trade.

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 June 26, 2009

Married Life of a Photographer

Ok, I guess I kind of fell off the map for a bit.  But it was all for a reason.  Jessica and I are now married, and it feels great.  It has been hard to maintain the blog while trying to get everything done for the wedding, and maintain a job (gotta pay those bills).  We had a great wedding, and a fantastic honeymoon.  We did the whole cruise thing, and I really enjoyed it.  Now it is back to work at iThemes.  Actually, I am writing this from the lobby of a hotel in Dallas where I am with the team from iThemes for WordCamp Dallas ’09.  So far we have had a pretty good time.  The conference doesn’t actually start until tomorrow, but we are here a day early to get some “team building.”  Not sure what that means.  Mostly just hazing Cory.

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 June 5, 2009

Too Busy to Shoot…?

I submit that I am not.  Ok, I guess I have been, but I am fixing that.  With my new job (which I love by the way), it has been difficult to maintain the amount of shooting I used to get to do.  Not only do I have a new job, I have a new house, a new puppy, and I am getting married in 7 days.  That is pretty time consuming.  So yesterday I decided to do something about my lack of shooting.  Next to me, on my desk, is my 1d mk2n with a 20-35 2.8L on it.  It is a simple set up.  Even though it serves no purpose at my job, I keep it there and shoot in the office.  The pictures are nothing of note, but what is important is that I am being creative.  I also shoot a lot of pictures with my iPhone, but I have found that having my “real” camera staring me in the face makes me want to use it more.

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 May 28, 2009

Social Networks

I was looking at my Analytics a little bit ago, and I was noticing how much of my traffic comes from my social networks.  In the last few weeks, it has surpassed direct traffic.  Pretty cool if you ask me.  I resisted Twitter for the longest time, but now that I have embraced it, it has benefited me emmensely.  In fact, hopefully some of you that are reading this came here from Twitter. I could go on and on about Twitter, but I will save that for another post.

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 May 27, 2009

Dakota Danner

I got a new puppy, and her name is Dakota.  She is rediculously cute.  Jessi and I are so happy to have her as part of our family.  I just took a wide angle lens out in the yard with us the other day and took a few snap shots, so I thought I would share them.  She’s pure American Pit Bull Terrier.  What a great dog!!!!

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 May 14, 2009

WordPress Gallery

Wow, I guess reading is good. Who would have thought? I was just reading some older posts from the iThemes blog and noticed a post about making your WP galleries look great. Thought I would pass it along to the rest of you who missed it as well.

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