So the website has taken a bit of a back seat of late due to a number of things, not least of all Emily’s impending arrival (and all the assorted DIY involved in that) then of course her arrival and to be honest I’ve been completely delighted to just sit & watch here, and I’ve also helped set up another photography club in NZ called Photography with Pixels (www.photopnz.com) which is all geared towards digital photography and is very web based so I’ve done a lot of development on that website, so what about my own?…

Well it’s coming…. One of thing things I tend to struggle with is wanting to have as much of it ready as I can for the relaunch, I’m now I think come to the decision that I just need to get what I have back up there and let people see what I’ve been working on and some of the new images that area around on the site. So I’m planning to try and get the site up and running over  the weekend.

The site has got a whole new look and feel to it, it’s faster, more user friendly (I Hope) and easier for me to keep up to date which is important. I toyed with moving the blog into it as well but so far I’ve resisted the move but I’ve got

• Completely new site
• New Gallery layout
• An improved contact me option to just give feedback or for image sales & licensing
• Downloads section where people will be able to download a few images for things like your desktop

I’m still working on

• A new sales desk
• A new feedback and comments section, the idea of this is that people will be able to go there, look at some images and give me feedback on them, tell me what you think and don’t like…. I’m a big boy, I can take it!
• A new site comments area where visitors can leave me some notes to say hello….

I’ve been doing a fair bit of assorted image making & taking.. the two below are I guess two ends of the spectrum, one is my fully into my passion for landscape, This was captured out behind Christchurch but I’ve done a bit of work on it to get the image to what I was actually picturing / feeling at the time. This is very much as a result of work I’ve been doing with Tony Bridge who has been a bit of a mentor for me in my photography.

 

The other is part of a new thing for me and it’s still forming, to be honest I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to be doing with it I have to say. It’s very much heading into the abstract area of photography which is proving to be interesting to me. I’m starting to play with new idea’s, smoke, inks, food dyes!…. watch and see….

This one is called Oppression, I’ll let you decide what it’s about.