I should first of all apologise to everyone for dropping off the radar for so many months, as I've only made my first uploads this week after 10 months of nothing, with none of my 2008 or 2009 photos displayed until a few days ago (with all my 2009 photos still waiting). It isn't that I haven't been shooting photos, as I actually have over 1000 waiting to be sorted through, with the end result being probably only a few hundred new ones for public display. Since 2007, I've mostly been too busy with other things, like learning how to use Blender, working, travelling, and so on, and so I haven't had time to do any scanning. I have, however, had plenty of time to shoot new photos.
All of my work in the past 17 months has been either with my Nikon N80, my Zeiss-Ikon Contina LK, or with my new Sony Ericsson W302 cameraphone. Yes, you heard that right. I now have a functioning digital camera to carry around with me, and it's even crappier than the typical digital. The reason I got it was that the price was low for what it was, and I needed a phone capable of being a good Mp3 player too, which is really what the W302, officially a Walkman, is made for. I've so far shot well over 650 photos with the cameraphone, though, some of which may make it onto iPernity, just so that I don't have to stop shooting photos will I work on my scanning backlog. I haven't shot any film since last month, and I've temporarily given it up while I work on 9 rolls of developed but unscanned film, 4 rolls of film scanned to CD at the lab, and 3 rolls of undeveloped, unscanned film. I've also got a roll almost scanned (the scanner is running now), which should be up in the next day or two, and I've already posted the results of 2 other rolls. In all, I have about 18 new rolls, either already up, or in the process of going up, so it's a lot of work, not counting going through the cameraphone images when this is over.
As for the status of my website and Flickr account, I just did a redesign of the website last week, and I'm thinking about doing another. Basically, I removed a lot of the excessive sample photos, including the whole railroad photo site, and concentrated on making the site more of a hub for all my work so....if you are primarily interested in thumbing through my work, iPernity is probably the best place. All of my work (which I've chosen at this time to make publicly excessible, albeit fully copyrighted) can be seen here, as opposed to on Flickr where you have to search around, and in addition, I've chosen to generally move all of my extra special stuff to iPernity. Why???? I could write a whole photo blog going over the reasons why Flickr is a shadow of its former self, like the SafeSearch Filter that punishes innocent people (as in people who have never posted anything obscene, nude, or even suggestive on their stream) as pornographers and tells German and French adults that they're not mature enough to look at nudes, like the terrible, ugly, cumbersome layout in the most recent redesign, like the limit of 10 groups per photo on the standard account, like the shutdown of the original Playground for Psychotics (one of the only things moderating Flickr's other faults), and finally the fact that you get far less in features than on iPernity. Flickr used to have the edge in this regard, but now iPernity has completely overwhelmed Flickr. In addition, I get more views here, although admittedly the reason that I'm still on Flickr is that many of my friends are, and in addition I can still get a lot of views there.
I haven't decided whether to even stop uploading to Flickr, so for the moment most of my stuff is being displayed both there and here. I've given up the idea, for the moment, of displaying my Blender models, since I'm still learning the program and can't claim to really know what I'm doing yet. It wouldn't hurt to go back to school and get better qualified, I think, but for the moment there's still a lot that I could learn through tinkering. I'm also getting back into video, and I'll let you know how I do with that. I've done three videos in VHS before (with Hi8 masters), but I want my next video to be digital, and indeed I'll post trailers here on iPernity (NOT on Flickr, since Flickr's video hosting isn't as good) when that time comes.
In the meantime, check out my document stream, and get back to me with you comments!