So where have I gone?? What did I do? Well over the last 2-3 months I've sorta been hibernating. Many of you know that Jill and I will be moving to Dallas come this summer. This means that Beth*Lee is out. It was fun while it lasted, and while I'll miss shooting with my sister, and the bonding and fun that we had, I won't miss the logistics of who edits what, and how we're gonna do this and that. It'll be nice to have my own thing going. (That is if the Lord so inclines...)
All that to say, I've been shopping. I bought a URL http://www.davidleephotog.com, and plan to have something up pretty soon. I also have a new blog that I'm working on http://blog.davidleephotog.com. I've spent countless hours looking at amazing blogs that people are doing. From Sarah Rhodes incredible horizontal blog, to simplest free blogger template that people are using. I've looked into using the ever famous ProPhoto2Blog from NetRivet that plugs into Wordpress. I like what they have to offer, and it seems to becoming a standard for a lot of photographers. Although I like it, I just can't seem to justify spending the $200 right now, right before we move to have a blog. Something that Blogger gives you for free, and no, I don't have amazing splash headers, and auto-collapsing comments, but honestly is that what's selling people on photographers? How much money they drop on a web template, or how fancy their blog is..? I'm opting to get rid of this horrible thing I do, compare...I've spent the last few months trying to find a cheap way of having something similar to these blogs, and then talking to a friend today it king of just hit me...? Where's my priority here?? Why am I wasting hours and days, trying to make something I think people might like better?? Why don't I just focus on what this whole stupid blog thing should be about, posting great photos to inspire others. (I'm not saying my work does that, but other do to me) So I'm just gonna spend a few hours throwing together a simple slideshow, and a contact page, on a simple HTML website. As for my blog?? Why not just use something that's free?? I know wordpress is free, and eventually I'd like to migrate, but rather than blow hours and hours learning php to re-skin it. I'm just gonna stick with what I know for now. Maybe one day when I'm doing this thing full-time I'll be able to justify spending the money to have the bells and whistles on my site/blog. As for now, I'm just simple guy, who loves taking photos. I'm not a professional yet, but I'm getting there. My road is just a little bit slower than everyone around me, and rather than let that frustrate me, I'm just gonna let it happen as it does, if it does. I'm tired of trying to force things, I'm tired of carring the weight of what could be, and be dupped with a lie, that if 'I' only did a little bit more...has it ever really been me?? No!! So why am I still trying. This is me offically saying I'm done holding this. I let it go, I'll let this thing that's inside me go. It's never been 'mine', and so I release it.
Man I already feel better about this... I know many of you are probably thinking...man David never writes on his blog...well this is a new leaf. I want to be more transparent with everyone. So no pictures on this post, just some words and a new URL for those of you who want to keep on following me.
It's been a fun year, hope to see you around!!
http://davidleephotog.com/
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