Daily Plog

December 17, 2009

Great news

Filed under: Nikon D90, People, Updates — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Jacob Crosby @ 3:15 am

I have a great deal of good news to share with everyone this post and it does not even involve some deliciously edited photo… I have recently come into a certain amount of assistance from someone to which I am eternally grateful. As it stands recently I have been unimaginably hopeful with regards to my future. I will say this, and I wll keep it ‘relatively’ short, I had recently lost someone in my life in which I believed had absolutelty no replacement the world over.

It seems not only did I find a replacement for this person, I found that this person never really deserved to be in my life in the first place. I thought my life would be terrible and I would be lost without her, and he truth is, my life has been unfathomable leagues better since she lost me. I have been blessed not only with realization that I have had MEGA great friends the whole time, and  that I may have lost one person, but I have gained two great new friends and an amazing family that make it very clear that she always needed to be replaced. Much like a broken piece of office equipment, you do not dwell on the fact that it is broken and “gone”, you simply replace it, and forget it ever existed in the first place because the replacement unit functions better on it’s worst day than the previous unit did when it was brand new….

I have always heard the best revenge is living well, hehe, well, that I am doing, and not that I would ever wish ill upon Chandra (or most people for that matter) as I do still love her so very much, I reently heard she is doing worse since she lost me… If there is such a thing as karma I am confident some just got dished up, shaken, not stirred.

Having given that tidbit of “grandtastic” news, I want to inform everyone of my first purchases towards my new business as well as the basic premise behind my new venture.

My very first purchases towards the business were a new air compressor and a new brad nail gun. Essentially I intend to process my photographs as usual, and get them printed in varying sizes. The second step in my overall process is to construct my own unique frames that I will be able to design around the photograph that will be going inside the frame. Now that you can see why I would need an air compressor and a nail gun when working with photographs… hehe. My third purchase was my dream camera. I have been dissatisfied with my camera for shooting HDR photographs for some time now. Ultimately, I found a great deal for a Nikon D90 online, I purchased the D90 with a few lenses and some additional equipment that will help me transfer from my Canon to a Nikon as all the connections are different, as well as the threading of the lenses.

Now that everyone knows why I have a great level of confidence in my future I am ready to go out and sell my photographs and frames. I would like to involve my friends and family in the process of building this, and doing so from the beginning, so if you have an ideas that you think would be beneficial, please do let me know.

Sorry for the lack of a photo today. :(

“Real life is the hardest impression, it’s always moving so I let it come through.”

~Little Texas

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October 7, 2009

Testing

Filed under: Updates — Tags: — Jacob Crosby @ 12:54 am

I am attempting to slim down the load time on my website, as it has become a cumbersome bit for a browser to load. In disabling plugins and various other features, I have brought the load times down from approx thirty seconds, down to under ten seconds. However, in doing so, I have lost some functionality, nothing any visitors should notice. I am currently checking to see if any of my convenience plugins were affected. Hopefully all is still well in the plugin world.

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June 29, 2009

New Feature: Facebook Integration

Filed under: Updates — Tags: — Jacob Crosby @ 2:17 am

As some of the Facebook users may have noticed, I added a new Facebook integration feature, in which, when a logged in Facebook user visits the site, and makes a post, their Facebook icon is used as their avatar, with the nifty little Facebook “f” to denote they came from Facebook (I hope that I never use any word that many times in another post again). I think this will be beneficial to many users, as it does not require the input of your basic information, which may deter some people from making posts.

I do hope that the features I have been adding lately are noticed and being used/liked by visitors. As always, if you have any suggestions as far as features are concerned, please let me know. I would also like to start adding contributors to the Plog, so if you are interested in posting some content you may have, Photos, Music, Videos, etc. to the site, please let me know and I will add you as a contributor. I hope that everyone had a good weekend, and I hope that this week has good things in store for all…. :)

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June 22, 2009

New Monthly Page

Filed under: Updates — Tags: — Jacob Crosby @ 5:43 pm

I am going to be adding a new page every month, and keeping an archive of the three favorite photos of the month. As well as a yearly archive of the top 10 of the year.

My primary motivation behind doing this is that I want people to have motivation for voting on my photos, the more photos you vote on the more your voice will be heard in the types of photos I take and display. If I find that people really like photos of dogs, then more dogs it is, if people like photos of nature, then there will be more nature photos, and so on and so forth. I have somewhat of a terrible memory, so if you tell me the types of photos you like to see, I will likely forget and continue on as usual.

So please, vote on the photos, make comments, I really want this to be a fun, living website where people can come and talk about photography, and whatever else they may enjoy, there was a comment in one post about brains coming out of my neck, I was laughing so hard it hurt (Seriously, it really did hurt). There will be a post this evening, so check back if you are interested. :)

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June 3, 2009

National Geographic Photo Contest!

Filed under: Updates — Jacob Crosby @ 10:55 pm

For those of you that know me I am really trying to get an income from my photography. With the health issues I have the physical labor I am used to is not exactly something I am capable of anymore.

With that in mind, there is a National Geographic Photo Contest coming up and I would really appreciate any support I can get, so if you would please take the time to rate my photos so I can find the best ones to submit, it would be greatly appreciated. I apologize for the lack of a photo today, I am feeling a bit under the weather and out of it.

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June 2, 2009

Just another update

Filed under: Updates — Jacob Crosby @ 5:22 pm

I added a new rating system to my blog posts. Now, under each photo is a row of ten stars that can be clicked on to give me an idea of what types of photos people like best. Having said that, I would like the comments to keep coming since no basic rating system I could employ could ever replace the comments. Thanks for taking a look and I will have another post up shortly…

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