Journal

Rethinking how I use Flickr

When people talk of photographers they tend to fall in one of a few groups. You have those that are professionals in the craft, those who have all the equipment but no idea how to use it properly and the instagram set where filters are their ticket to awesome photos.

I’m most certainly not in the first group and probably see-saw between the other two. I like photography and I like taking photos but when it comes to the final shot it’s mainly luck when I end up with a decent photo. So I’m been trying to think of ways to improve and do so slowly rather than try and use filters as an instant fix.

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From the other side

So another Think Visibility is over and as always Dom and the team brought their now infamous mix of learning and piss yourself laughing fun and then dialled it up to 11.

Though the escapades of Think Vis 5 will always be hard to beat this certainly comes in a close second for me. Ideas such a bouncy castle in a casino and Chewbacca (of Star Wars fame) speaking about anchor text can only come from the ever so slightly twisted mind of Dominic Hodgson, or at the very least he’s the only man with the balls to ever go through with it.

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Something new for 2012

So here’s a somewhat new design for my website, which took a couple of times to get right but is something I’m happy with for now.

To be honest the design isn’t my favourite, which I know it should be given that this is my site and should reflect the best of my ability. That said however, I had changes I really wanted to make to the site and really not enough time to get everything 100% right.

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What was I thinking?

This is just a quick post to actually mention on my blog as well (as having previously done so on Twitter) that I lost my mind sometime in December and submitted an idea to talk (which was accepted, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this) at Think Visibility 7 in March.

The reason I say lost my mind has nothing to do with the conference itself more my aversion to public speaking or almost anything that draws attention which could then be negative. But hell it’s 2012 I’m apparently considered a grown up so I’m sure I can spend 45 minutes of my life trying something new and scary.

So with that in mind if you’re free on the 3rd of March and have a slightly odd interest in a design based talk at what is primarily an SEO conference with some extra stuff thrown in then please come along. I’m sure my talk will either be informative or entertaining (in you’ll see me crumble on stage), hell I might even manage both :)