So, after nearly a year, I have managed to jump a particular shark, switch back to Photocrati/NextGen Pro (why I ever left them is a mystery to me), and get things running, with content, in less than a week, where last year it was taking….months. And that wasn’t just because I was working on said content, it was because that website theme was….well, to be perfectly frank I didn’t like pHp when I was doing websites for a living; I pretty much hate it now. Let’s just say that one wasn’t very user friendly.
So, anyway, here we are. There is content here. I’d say I’m at roughly 30-35%. Emphasis on flora because they are the oldest and I was ever so pleased to be able to resurrect so many that I had literally kept around to punish myself with. I’ll be talking about some of those in posts to come, but the short story is that some were a little less than “publishable” in my mind because of several technical details which couldn’t be overcome until today’s modern AI-driven software. They have been my creative goads for nearly two decades; I’ve kept them in my repository to remind me to be more diligent, take my time more, be more thoughtful, even when being spontaneous. Now, they are published as of tonight. Sure, to an audience of “whomever stumbles across this”, but published nonetheless. Tonight is weirdly bittersweet. These past several months in which I’ve managed to process them into refined images have been bittersweet as well. Those goads have been muses, and now they’ve morphed into something different this past year.
There is still much to do here, and a lot of refinement to complete. And I still also have baseball photos to process from this past spring and summer. And there are work responsibilities, happily undertaken and much needed for that side of my brain. But this place is finally more than a shell, and I cannot begin to describe to tell you how happy that makes me feel.
Now, if only I could find the old blogs. I kind of miss that part of me, too.
