Ahoy Mayties!

I'm afraid to say this blog and my enthusiasm for keeping it rolling has frizzled out somewhat along with my spare time lately! I have been spending a lot of time on my photography, between experimenting with the camera and post-production in Photoshop, and studying & researching every aspect of photography as a profession, a passion, and as a business. There are endless fascinating and highly informative resources out there and I'm absorbing as much information as my pickled brain can handle!

I'm also working on that Photography institute course, which I'm ashamed to say has been on the back burner for a few weeks since I completed Module 1 (and a Primer module) and submitted assignment 1, with an 80% result. The main reason was so that I could complete the study of my Nikon D7000 camera's user manual. It took ages to study and understand, but I got there in the end, completely impressed with the incredible things it can do that I never imagined a camera could do! Since then I've been a bit sidetracked with other research and experimenting, though last night I got some inroads into Module 2. Will do some more tonight when I go to bed. Making my iPad useful!

Another thing I've started concentrating on in earnest is starting to build the business. Today I purchased two web domain names and a website hosting package. In the next few days when it all becomes fully active I'll access it and set up the basics. Then I plan on beginning work on my website, which will effectively be a customised blog type website through Wordpress. See Wordpress is better than this blogging site (blogger.com) because my blog site is self hosted and maintained, I can run it off my own domain name, not myname.blogger.com, and search engine optimisation (SEO) is a lot higher with Wordpress meaning my site could reach a lot more people.

The website will be the portal to my business. For which I still need to design the catchy brand. The name is there already, I'm happy with it, the branding is going to be a challenge to design because I'm not a graphic designer and not-a-fuck can I afford a professional designer. So I'm just going to have to use my own brain, dust off my old web design skills (and update them of course), squeeze out some creative juices, and produce something that will be professional and unique!

Wish me luck!

But don't worry, The Daily Noodle will continue, however scarcely for a while until things calm down on the photography side. This is still my personal blog about personal shit where I'll bitch and swear and talk about food. The other blog will be my business. Of course it will have my cheeky and humorous personal touch, but it will need to be more professionally presented!

Right now I need to sort and file my latest photo's and clear up the iPad. We're going away for 3 days over the weekend to Dad's place at Witsand, so I need to get a lot done before then. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get a chance to get the car washed too!