On the prowl with my cute little Brownie camera, no one had an inkling that images would some day be captured with ones and zeros instead of film. 24 shots to a roll seemed like a lot at the time, but now I’ve got a memory card capacity of 800 pictures at 12 megapixels per shot.
Digital photos are exploding like mammals in the Cenozoic era. Soon they will take over. Fortunately we have a technical solution for corraling them into order and utility, these billions of images now crowdsourced from all corners of the planet. Among other things, this is what the Internet is for.
With a growing variety of great photo sites like Flickr, Picassa, etcetera, surely we don’t need another personal hacked-together photoblog trying to "innovate." But that’s exactly what I propose to do here. It may fall flat on its face, but here’s the beauty: I don’t care. This is simply a way for me to organize my burgeoning photo collection and share it with anyone who might be interested for whatever reason.
So, the goals of this site are as follows:
- Catalog my thousands of freakin’ photos
- Display them in various alternative ways
- Have fun looking at them
- Along the way, discover some useful code and best practices for cataloging and displaying photos
- Document everything so as to retain and share what I learn
- Stick with web standards for maximum possible extent of accessibility
- Have fun with webotography
As we roll out new sections, galleries, and so-called features, I hope you will offer comments: what works, what’s annoying, and any ideas or suggestions about different ways of organizing and displaying images and other content. If this site becomes actually useful that’ll be due to efforts beyond what I bring to it.
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