Thomas Moore Photography [Blog] » life, love, and adventures with a camera in my hand

It’s fitting really that the first TMP.com blog post is going up at 1:15am on a Monday morning . . . there have been countless late nights (years, and years, and years of them) of coding, research, and creative endeavor between here and way-back, when I first became interested in photography, a long time ago, in a continent far away.

After literally years of thinking about what I needed in a professional photography website - researching platforms, brainstorming and mind-mapping my needs, and learning as much as I could about HTML, CSS, content management systems, and the dark arts of LAMP - what was important in the end was that I want to spend my days (and nights) making photographs, not coding.  Could I roll-my-own site, sure (If I could ever come to agreement with myself on what the limits would be), but why?

Enter SquareSpace, a web service that I first became aware of via those brilliant blokes over at StudioLighting.net, and one that I, at first, dismissed without much thought.

The truth is that there is a stack of stuff that I want that is lacking here, so many things are not “optimal”, but the bottom line is that at 7am on a Sunday morning I signed up for a 14 day trial, by 5pm I had plonked down my USD$12.60 for the first month, and by 1am Monday morning I have what I hope is a decent first stab at a professional web-presence for my photography business.

So here it is, TMP.com version 1.0 . . . . something tells me version 1.1 is right around the corner.

Can’t wait to get back out there with my camera.

If you want to get into a SquareSpace service for your blog, business website, or portfolio there is a 14 day free trial.  Click here to connect to SquareSpace via my affiliate link - apparently I get some credit if you use my link and subsequently signup.  No idea how much, but I’m still saving for that new Canon Tilt-shift and every bit helps.