A Slightly Different Focus
Photography by Giles Hoover
A long-time book designer, Giles is known for finding amazing details in everyday scenes. The phrase, "a slightly different focus" is used to describe his style in portraiture, event photography, and More →
Refresh Almost Complete. New Stuff.
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. — [...]
Read more →Fun at a … Baby Shower!?
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 [...]
Read more →Behind the Scenes
…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. [...]
Read more →Fixated on TVs, and What’s on Them
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. [...]
Read more →Remove Before Washing or Wearing
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.
Read more →On WordPress, Zenfolio, and Design.
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 [...]
Read more →There’s something about … billiards.
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.
Read more →Snapping into focus
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 [...]
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