Back in May, Steve Vickerman, the owner of a small business called Name Rings, got in touch with me about updating his web site. His old site was outdated and had not been properly brought up to date with new security standards. So I designed his brand new logo and brand new site for him, got new cart software installed on a new server, updated his security, and helped him get the whole site running! We went live with it last month, and finally have gotten all the kinks worked out! I really like how it turned out, I think it is clean, simple, and functional.  We have plans for the future to add pictures with models and flash work, and I’m looking forward to see how things go for him! Check it out!

You may have read my post a few weeks back where I decided to definitely go from the ranks of doing just freelance jobs to going for being a professional photographer! I have been continuing to make steps towards developing a brand for myself, and a “store front,” as you will.  I am not all that interested in being a studio photographer, and so my store front right now is the web! To that end, I have just designed a brand new logo and launched a new commercial site for myself!

I am still not quite done developing all the sections of the new site, and am nowhere near finishing the galleries, but I decided to go live with it already because it is already much better than what I had up! If you’d like, Check it out!

I am very excited! I have decided to go for being a professional photographer! I will be launching a new website within the next month!

Also, I have upgraded my camera to a Pentax K20D! It has a 14.6 megapixel rating, great color, and a lot of great features! I am very excited to begin doing jobs with it! Here is a picture of it with its battery grip!

And here are a couple of pictures I have taken with it so far! I am really enjoying playing with this new camera. The colors are amazing, and the resolution is incredible. I hope you like them!

Well, I’ve decided it’s high time to come up with some promotional materials for myself! Step 1 is business cards.  I designed this card below.

Everyone who saw it really liked it, and I liked it too. Then my brother said something that gave me an unfortunate revelation: “Are you going to be able to read your phone number?” The company that prints my stuff has you create your products at such a high resolution that this was literally the size I was designing in. I shrank it to business card size and saw this!

Too small! I was a little disappointed, but realized that a business card has to be functional! Here is my redesign in full size and actual size. I don’t like it quite as much, but you can read it now.


Let me know what you think!