yesterday, today, tomorrow, later on

Putting together my new website I’ve had to dig through years of photos, or scroll through…whatever, and it’s amazing to see my child grow up in photos, and remember things I used to do with friends, back in the pre-pandemic days when we did things like spend time together in person. It makes me happy to be a photographer.

I have a website (there was an hour today when my old site was down, and the new one seemed to refuse to show up even though I was following the directions - but also CNAMEs and DNS settings are things I’m not comfortable with at all, so whether I was following the directions correctly was beyond my ability to determine, yet here we are so I guess it worked out). I’m a photographer. And in the days to come I can figure out what this site should be and how it can be organized better. I currently have an interiors category and a places & things category and really don’t know what to do with any of that stuff, except add it and then edit, recategorize, repeat.

Sure, my site is a mess right now. It just is, but I wanted to change it because it was a worse before, and now I feel up to my ears in nonsense, but nonsense I at least enjoy. So many things to figure out, and I think I could come up with some wonderful plan, and it would all make sense, only it’s not making sense so far, which I try to be ok with. I like to plan things, or maybe just I like to have a plan, but if this last year and a half has taught me anything, it’s that I do just fine without a plan. I can figure it out or deal with it, and as messy as it may be, it’s life.

Life is a lot of what I love and value about photography. It’s not pretty and perfect all the time, and the times that it is aren’t the ones we tend to remember. I love photos of funny times, as well as mundane. I look back at my son’s awkwardness at certain ages, and I am thrilled I captured those as well. I love many people who scrapbook and curate perfect instagram feeds, and I will never be one of them, because I like the other parts of life too much to exclude them.

So one day, I hope, this website will make sense, and be fun to look at, and in the meantime, here we go!