a slightly different focus

New, from the rates page:
Summer Special, 2008
Anyone who has ordered a print is eligible for waived minimums. That means portraits — and more — for less. Prints start at $3, and could potentially save hundreds of dollars. Been photographed, but want more? Order and save!
Thank you for ordering — and contracting for more. Truly, appreciated.
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I haven’t been to a concert in a while — more than a year — and haven’t been to a concert by folks at this level of expertise in waaay too long.

Fagen, Belting It Out
Cameras officially weren’t allowed, but there was a 100% chance I was going to somehow capture a moment or two.

Steely Sing-Along
They [...]

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…this weekend — indeed, this entire past week-plus — was spent on a photostroll with Gerald and Phillip Saturday, the 31st, testing out my Nikon D300 with various lenses. A great excuse to wander around Middle Georgia, we all agreed.

Gordon’s Grin
Despite its obviously-advanced technical qualities, integrating the D300 into my “everyday-use” schedule has been, well [...]

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Update 2, Sunday morning (6/1): The balance of the photographs have been posted. The last set took longer than anticipated, as seating the guests of honor in front of a [very bright —Ed.] window meant more time developing the photographs of the gift-opening session. (Backlighting can be, uh, problematic.) 28 photos in all — enjoy.
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Pre-dawn on Mother’s Day, I was blissfully asleep in Bradenton, Florida. Here in Macon, havoc struck. In several different neighborhoods around Bibb County, homes, businesses, schools, and lives suffered.
No one in Macon was killed. We were more than fortunate.
Nature was less kind to the foliage:

Stripped Tree
Despite the proximity to serious damage, my house — and [...]

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An attempt at visual storytelling on the blog tonight. Enjoy.
Woke up this morning — far too early, but that’s another story — in Columbus, Georgia. I’d spent the night in the graciously-provided guest room of two of my very favorite people: Phillip and Neecee.
Okay, it was actually napping after doing a photoshoot and development tutorial [...]

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…I’ve filled in the “about” page. Read all about, well, me.

Inundated (Self-Portrait 2008)
Lots of mistakes. Yet, somehow, still glad to be here.
As always, thanks for stopping by.

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For a while now, I’ve been meaning to recode this blog such that there are two classes of posts:

“Post-type posts,” which are similar to this entry — because this type of entry is all that I’ve got set to go right now.
“Quickie-type posts,” which are snippets, things that aren’t worthy of a full post, but [...]

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I’m caught up … with the design projects. Everything on the design “to do” list is current. Su-weet!
On the other hand … I’m like a month behind with photos. The list below is still pretty accurate, just not yet posted…;)
The “pretty accurate” refers to the Cherry Blossom stuff. Those who know me know that I [...]

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Been a “hella few months,” as they say around here.
Thankfully, finally, beginning to catch up. Here’s the to-post list, in order:

[the rest of] Conner’s Birthday
David’s Cocktail #1
David’s Cocktail #2
Sipsey (RI)
Cherry Blossom (TK, especially next Saturday’s street fair)

Should be done and posted within a few weeks, I’d say. Thanks for your patience.
Meanwhile, need to admit: been [...]

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It occurs to me that, stupidly, I haven’t been updating the blog every time I’ve been updating the site. Need to cross-post.

Host at Kitchen Table
Thanks, Jim! It was nice knowing I could bring my mother along, and much appreciated her feeling welcome.
Just a brief gallery — nine photos. Check ’em out.
Edit: Previous 2008 Cocktail Hour [...]

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Some massaging today:

To all three of Carey’s galleries (One, Two, and Favorites), as one photo was deleted — yeah, we deleted the racy photo — and another added. (Naturally, the photo added was at the beginning, messing up my numbering scheme…;)
To this site’s look, re-adding the entry page back, along with a link to this [...]

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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. — [...]

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Wonkiness? Did I mention?

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…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.
Meanwhile, I’m experimenting [...]

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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 to eventually [...]

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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.

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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 ever so satisfying
There’s no map
And a compass
Wouldn’t help at all
Human [...]

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