Here I Am Again


It all started out by me wanting some art on the walls.

Many of you know I take photographs. Lots. I figured in the archives somewhere there were a few I wouldn't mind looking at every day.

What you probably don’t know is that for every photo I post on social there are about 30-50 more I hold back.  I was moderately serious about photography for nearly 8 years before I had the iPhone. So over the last 15 years I’ve amassed a trove of about 40,000 photographs taken over 5 continents and 15 countries and counting.

That's a lot. I wanted to print out a bunch of them and cover some of the acres of wall space I have in my apartment; but looking through 40,000 photographs is a bit daunting. So I figured I would go through them by place; and pull a bunch out into groupings. Well, if I was going to do that I should at least put them on my website so that I can look at them more easily and share with friends.

Problem is my website is about 12 years old and was built before the time of responsive design; Instagram and social media. So it needed an update. And I was dying to learn PHP again (NOT). So I made a new one; entirely new from the ground up with all the appropriate social media channels; and above all lots of photos.

It's finally done and out there, and to celebrate for the next few weeks I’ll be putting up one new collection a week. Some of these photos go back to my first class with Lois Conner in 1993.

This blog is kind of random; musings about specific photos I've taken or things I've seen. Stories really behind the photos mostly.

Thank you for traveling with me.

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