I built a photo gallery website a couple of years ago called webotography.com, and that was fine as a brief experiment. I might even revive it some time, but the thing it, the web marches on pretty fast. My webotography site used some methods for displaying photos that now seem kind of quaint, to put it kindly. Basically, the site is outdated and outmoded, especially since the advent of HTML5 and the new browser versions that support it.
So I just built another photography site called jackatwill.com/photoblog. There you can find several hundred photos I took during a trip across Colorado and southern Utah this past August. I also published most of these photos on Facebook and Flickr but you know, I'm not really thrilled by the way my display choices are so limited there. It's great that we have all these "free" social media spaces where we can publish and share things, but we should never forget that we don't own those spaces. I'll use them, but I'll continue to build my own websites as part of my core enterprise as a developer. Time-consuming, yes, but fun!
I hope you enjoy both the clean design, and the photo content on the new site.
Categories: Metadata • Personal • Photography • Websites
I've lost count of how many times I've lost count of my photos. I have so many freakin' photos it's impossible to imagine anymore how many I have. Time to do something about that!
The answer came to me in a flash one night as I should have been sleeping (or organizing my photos): I'll put them on my website! But which one? I sort of started a gallery here on openwebworks, but this isn't really the appropriate place for a personal photo collection. I could just put them on Flickr or Picassa, which I probably will do at some point. But I want to retain control over the server space where they will reside, and I want to play with the CSS and different ways of presenting them with cool JavaScripty things, like different slide shows and lightboxes. I want to catalog them and have fun with them in various ways.
The answer: webotography.com.
Categories: Media • Personal • Photography • Websites