Update 2, 30 June: I forgot to mention that I’ve reformatted all of the posts for 2026 to match the new style. Posts from 2025 and earlier will have mismatched pullquotes, among other minor items — but the content is unchanged.
Update, 30 June: Fingers crossed, things seem to be working. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you run across anything. Thanks.
Update, 29 June: I broke something yesterday. The images on some posts from 2026 have been disconnected, and I’m not sure why. Posts from 2025 and earlier, and a couple from 2026, are displaying correctly. Working on it. Fixed.
Update, 28 June: The search results return mostly non-clickable results. Hmph. Will fix as soon as I have a moment. Fixed.
Original Post: It’s one of those things: something needs work, but since it’s yours — and not a clients’ — it doesn’t get done.
After a while, it starts to annoy. Still … other priorities take precedent.
But then something happens. In my case, it was the installation of WordPress 7, which caused several problems on the site. Old is one thing, but broken is another. It was time.
The itch finally got the scratch.
The site’s undergone a major reorganization, and as a result, it’s more focused. While there are static pages, visitors are directed to where the updates are posted: my blog, Foreword.
The site features completely new style sheets, which means a more flexible layout, dynamic fonts, and more. As a result, it has better compatibility with tablets and mobile devices — even if it’s still best viewed on a big screen.
The kicker: it’s based on modern code. That means it’s both faster and more private, stripping out third-party services (and their trackers), including search. The site continues to not have cookies, and does not save visitor information.1With one exception: if you use the contact form, a duplicate message is temporarily saved in case of an email hiccup.
The photography sections got a bump, too. They’re now broken down into categories:
- Regional Imagery, photography from selected cityscapes, rural scenes, landscapes, and architectural photographs from ten US states (plus several additional locations in the UK)
- College Street, photography from colleges and universities, and
- Maine Revisited, covering a ten-year span — 2008–2018 — of photography from the great State of Maine, “the way life should be.” While the book has sold out, there are hundreds of additional items to enjoy in the galleries.
And debuting this fall: Frequency Shift, which is macro, detail, and abstract photography from the world of hi-end audio.
As often happens with a ground-up rewrite, it’s still a work in progress — there are wrinkles that’ll hopefully be smoothed out in the next few weeks, most likely including things I don’t yet know about.
Kindly let me know of anything that doesn’t work for you.
However, it’s the end of the month, and I have the dozens of saved pages, notes, and photos set aside for this month’s Beautifully Briefed that I must attend to. (That’ll be posted Tuesday.)
As always, thank you for visiting!
Top image: (Signs of) Bolingbroke, Georgia, 2018
- 1With one exception: if you use the contact form, a duplicate message is temporarily saved in case of an email hiccup.
