New Year's Eve Eve

It’s nearly the end of 2008; only one more day. Although there were notable successes and achievements in 2008 (the photo show comes to mind with all the friends that came), I am looking forward to 2009 and the start of financial recovery for many including yours truly.

We had a quiet Christmas after the hectic first two weeks in December. Our week at Fort Clinch in the RV didn’t quite work out as planned. We anticipated a quiet, lay-low week with occasional jaunts to the house to take of miscellany. But last-minute prep for Christmas and various other tasks resulted in being out of the park for most of every day; returning at dusk. To simplify things, we ended up eating most meals away from the RV (less clean-up; fewer things to move in/out). Suki-the-cat did not make the trip! He ran every time Margaret tried to corral him. Probably for the best since we were gone so much and it was not a good place for him to roam outdoors.

A benefit of our short stay was we did get to walk the beach in the early morning and late afternoon. Besides the obvious enjoyment, I learned / discovered “beach” photography! That may sound strange but my thoughts on “beach” photography was there was nothing to take a picture of! Why, you ask? Other than the early morning sunrise / late p.m. sunset, photos of surf and sand can be pretty blah!

Well, as luck would have it, we had several mornings of fog which made for some interesting stuff. That plus some fun shapes / patterns discovered along the way. I now believe I have “local” photos to add to my portfolio of mountains et.al. We’re still in the thinking stage, but several of these (and their ilk) are possible candidates for local postcards and note-cards that could be offered in the local tourist “traps” and a gallery (if we ever find / decide on one for my photos).

Finally, the snags of getting my web-site up and running have been “solved”. Specifically, I signed up with one web-site company but they weren’t aimed at photography and I could never get the pages to accept my stuff. So I found another photography-oriented company. It has taken nearly a month to resolve the issues of domain name ownership and transfer to the new company. The new company (www.photobiz.com) says I should be up by the end of this week (Jan 2nd). But I’m taking that with a grain or two of salt since I’ve heard that before. Keep your fingers crossed.