Giles Hoover, Photographer

Enjoyed the show tonight — and perhaps more importantly, came away with a few decent photos. My favorites: Magnificent Bastard, Onstage Dan, Emotional (Blur) Chris and Miles #1 Dan and Miles #1 Many thanks to Dan, Chris, Justin, and Miles for access — and a great performance — tonight. No bastards in my book, LOL! [...]

Redid both this blog’s structure and the back end over the past couple of days. Satisfied enough that it’s going to be the site’s front page until I can take the customization to the next level. There’s still some tweaking left to do — the about page, some other static pages, Google stuff, etc. — [...]

Wonkiness? Did I mention?

Well, yeah, especially when they’re friends, or are now — met a few new folks I hope become more a regular part of “the fold.” Came away with a few photos I like very much, too. Not necessarily perfectly on-topic, alas; I was distracted by Conner, Dan and Monica’s young son, who has advanced tremendously [...]

…I’ve started to put together additional content for the upcoming gallery refresh. Note, too, that I plan to change the photo section from it’s current location — hosted with Zenfolio, branded as Zenfolio — to photos.gileshoover.com. This might result in a short disruption. If you’ve been gracious enough to bookmark anything, it should still work. [...]

A headline in today’s NYTimes. With an absolutely perfect photo: I wonder whether the photo came before the headline (i.e. looked at the photo and the headline popped into mind), or whether the editor made a specific request. Either way, the photo and headline are wonderful together. Photo by Jae C. Hong for the AP. [...]

Miles has given me permission to display this photo: My favorite candid portrait in a long while. Thanks, Miles. From our New Year’s Eve get-together, which meant that, until now, it’s lived in the “invite-only” section. I’ve rearranged the galleries slightly such that it’s not behind a password. Enjoy.

Well, so, here it is. The “new” GHdotcom. I’ll be honest: it’s a compromise. WordPress uses PHP, which is currently — probably forever — over my head. Thus, for this very-badly-behind-the-times web designer, I turned to templates. The one in use here, Cutline, is similar to what I want the “words” portion of the site [...]

Especially when combined with a fisheye: Still messing around with the various Zenfolio options, but know that the infrastructure is in place, finally, for folks to get prints if they want, need, or desire … balls. Heheheh.

If you ever get close to a human And human behaviour Be ready to get confused There’s definitely no logic To human behaviour But yet so irresistible There’s no map To human behaviour They’re terribly moody Then all of a sudden turn happy But, oh, to get involved in the exchange Of human emotions is [...]