About the Site

What started out as a modest platform to display my photographs has morphed into something totally unrelated to photography cameras, models, or Photoshop. That something is WordPress. To quote the WikipediA WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. For me discovering WordPress 2 years ago put a completely different spin on what a website should be and what it should be capable of. So much so I immediately abandoned the old style of “flash-enabled” image gallery after image gallery to investigate the potential of this newfound platform. During the first year of running WordPress (version 2.0) the site crashed and stupidly I didn’t have the content backed up and had to start from scratch. The rebuilding has taken approximately a year and photographic activities have suffered as a result. I add content slowly, sort of like the economy right now, a modest recovery “albeit at a much reduced pace”. Plans are to add lots more images, a few thingies you can do with Photoshop, and a pile of Op-Eds on WordPress.

Not exactly what you expect in an about me page. So in a nutshell I’m a converted film shooter from back when the size of the negative meant more than the logo on your camera strap, dealt with bulk loaders, film spools and developing tanks, made prints in trays filled with poisonous chemicals in the darkroom, shot my fair share of parades, building demolitions, weddings, etc. Now it’s all about the zeros and ones on the computer, the histogram on the camera and the illustrative post production after the shoot. The more things change the faster they change.

Thanks for visiting.
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Douglas Essery