HDR photos and update

So.

Obviously I haven’t updated recently.  I’ve been busy trying to find new clients NOT tied directly to rentals here along the gulf coast.  Given this is a tourist town… it’s been a lot of work.  Lots of calling, networking and marketing.

As I write this BP is attempting yet another way to plug the oil gusher which has poured millions upon millions of gallons of oil into the gulf.  If you’ve been watching CNN, etc you’ve seen the dead: dolphins, pelicans, sea birds, turtles and countless other creatures caught up in this mess.

That 24 / 7 news cycle has spooked would be tourists that flock to our beaches May-September.  I already covered the impact in a recent post so I’ll skip the rehash any further.  Just pointing out that I’ve been spending a ton of my time trying to drum up new biz.

I have found some new clients, but these are one or two gig deals and out, not rental companies that have ongoing new inventory to shoot.  So the hunt/kill/eat cycle of freelance is what I’m dealing with right now and not leaving me much time to do anything else.

Yesterday a builder asked me to send him work  of homes I’ve shot in a particular community.  I told him to go to my website and he said he did and didn’t see anything shot there.  Hmmmmm…. so I go myself and then realize I haven’t updated my site in almost exactly a year now.  So I grabbed link after link of temporary galleries I had put up for some shoots from the last 6-12 months and started cutting and pasting links in the email.   That’s when I realized that there were way too many  So I cut it down.  Lesson?

I need to update my website!

Anyway, here are some of the links I included.  I didn’t think I should send him the nearly 100 properties I shot last year!!!  The toughest part for me is I now need to select the better shots of the last few years and put up a new website.  You know… when I have nothing better to do for a few days!

I cringed when I saw some of the shoots. I remember when I was up against hard time deadlines and cut some corners here and there when I wasn’t given any wiggle room.  Oh well.  They won’t make it to the final website, but lessons learned from each shoot.

Links to temp web galleries:

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/ws/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/willow/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/destin/406w/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/30a/wc/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/wcliff/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/sandestin/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/proofs/sanctuary/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/30a/ws2/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/59/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/alysbeach/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/pinevalley/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/comps/wcolor/index.html

http://digitalcoastimage.com/destin/405w/index.html