Today’s Post by Joe Farace
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. —William Shakespeare
This New Year begins the fifteenth year of my ‘Saving the World, One Pixel at a Time’ both on this and my car photography site/blog and for some reason I can’t stop thinking of this as my new blog. But from now on, it’s just my blog.
Between this site, and my car site plus all the posts I wrote for former mirrorless photography and movie review site (now part of Joe’s Movie Club) all this blogging accounts more than 5000 posts but I didn’t do it alone. And while, these day, I predominantly write these posts, along the way others helped, including Jason Anderson, Peter K. Burian, Skip Cohen, John Larsen, Barry Staver and Matt Staver. The amazingly talented individuals have all contributed to this site’s success. Many thanks to all of them.
While I’m thanking people, a special thank you goes out to Tim Fiedler, who is the technical genius who pulls all the strings behind the interface to keep this and my other sites—and future ones (see below)—working. I’m looking forward to his help in making this blog even better in the coming year.
During 2024, Tim and I plan to continue improving this site/blog making it more contemporary and more mobile friendly. We are also working on creating a new and uncensored how-to glamour photography website/blog to make up for the lack of glamour, boudoir and portrait photography that was previously featured on this blog. When this new site is launched in 2024, I will offer the link to any readers who requests it and is over 18-years of age.
I am also hoping, and that’s what it is at this point, a hope, to relaunch a website/blog that my friend Mark Toal and I started many years ago that was specifically aimed at mirrorless camera shooters. When we let the URL registration lapse, the domain as well as the site design and content was hijacked by unscrupulous people who turned it into a zombie site. In the intervening years I’ve tried to get the domain back at first just to keep it from these crooks but now I want to bring it back, not acting as an editor as I did previously, to be more under my control and direction. If this happens it will be late in 2024. And while I said IF, I sincerely hope this will happen.
I will admit that it is possible—and maybe even probable—that all this activity may reduce the number of posts that I will be able write for this blog. Recently I have found that it’s challenging just to write seven posts a week but I will try to work harder—but no promises.
Things I Want to Do in 2024
- Restart my Infrared Photography Workshops in McCabe Meadows during the summer of 2024
- Launch a series of Film-based Photowalks that will take place in Downtown Parker, Colorado
- Restart my Coffee and Cameras meetups at Starbucks; I’m hoping to start these early in the year. Look for an announcement in January.
All of the planned changes to this site and the potential launching of two new ones will happen when there are funds to make all of these things happen. New sponsors can help with that. If you know of a photographic business or own a photo-related business or lab and would like to advertise on this site please click Contact and I’ll tell you how affordable it is and how this site can help your business grow. The cost is so modest and affordable that if you just sell a single item, it will cover the cost of a year-long ad.
Speaking of which, I want to thank all the sponsors below. They help cover the costs of the bandwidth, hosting and software-related expenses that keep this site as well as my car photography site on-line. Please support their products.
Most of all I want to Thank YOU for all your support over these past years. Without you I would not have the energy to get up each day and make sure there’s something new to share. I’m looking forward to meeting with as many of you as possible in 2024.
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