I’ve spent the last few weeks working on updating my website. Updating is an understatement. Overhaul is more accurate.  My old site was posted a few years ago & pretty much just sat there after that. Obviously, my new site is much more dynamic. By committing to a ‘blog’ format, I a committing myself to keeping the site current. One of my photographer ‘mentors’ Trey Ratcliff commits himself to posting a new image to his site StuckInCustoms every day. What makes that even more remarkable is that I have never seen one of his daily images that I would not be very proud to call my own. He is a brilliant AND prolific photographer. (He does in fact post a disclaimer that he may miss 10-20 days a year…) I’m not quite so ambitious. I intend to post at least once a week. (I’ll try to do more,  I would just prefer to surpass my goal than not reach it. And since my last website was only updated about one a year, 50-75 times a year is quite an improvement.) So far I have barely been meeting my goal, however I also have been actually building the site, assembling & formatting all the images for the galleries, building the pages etc. And since as I am writing this, the site is not yet ‘live’ so no-one except perhaps my wife & mom have access to it, no one is reading the weekly blogs anyway, yet. 

One of the great opportunities organizing the material for this site has provided me, is an excuse to wander down memory lane & look through the 50,000 or so images on my hard drive & pick a few to show. The photograph below is one I discovered in my archives of a wonderful woman & an extremely talented Austin artist Sarah Pierce performing at Gruene Hall. I’ve had the opportunity to photograph Sarah on various occasions Including producing a short promotional video for her last CD “Cowboys Daughter” & it’s always a treat to work with her. Perhaps one of my favorite type of ‘gigs’ is photographing musicians, you often get to listen to great music & working with any type of talented artist is always a treat.