Weekend Polaroids
Some Polaroids from this weekend. More in the “Last Polaroid” section of my website.
Bigger Better Faster More
Bigger: A little
Better: That’s subjective (but I think so)
Faster: Maybe
More: Yep
The new website is up and running.
Google Similar Images
Google Labs has a new application, Similar Images, which will find images similar to a given image.
So, is this making life better or worse for photographers?
Better: Possibly find unauthorized use of your images.
Better: Possibly making it easier for someone to figure out who created the image (important for Orphan Works legislation)
Worse: Someone doesn’t like what you are charging to license an image, find one exactly like it… I mean, not like mine… my images are solely unique.
Almost Ready
Photo Editors, Art Directors and anyone with an email address at your magazine or agency (thanks for the feedback Bob the Janitor), get your SPAM filters ready! Once my new website design is up I’ll be sending out my first promo for the new site. My old Livebooks site has been upgraded and I now have larger images with the old design. I’m still in the process of resizing my images for the new site so there’s a mixture of old and new. The new design should be live sometime this week or early next week.
To date I’ve been doing my own design work, so I hope you like the new site (and promo piece). I think for the next round of revisions and promos I’ll be seeking professional help… and a designer.
A Change Is Gonna Come
I’m in the process of a good sized website update. It’ll be a mix of newer work and work I’ve done over the last year that I’ve been a bit too lazy… I mean, far too busy… to get prepped for the website. I’m also in the process of doing a minor website re-design. I posted a while back that I wanted to completely redesign my website… but that hasn’t happened yet due to indecisiveness on how I want the new site to look. After all, it’s not like I want to redesign my site every few months, so I better be happy with it. So, for the short term I’m upgrading my Livebooks site in order to add larger images and along with that I’ll make some minor changes to the look.
