Some website organizational changes

A couple of things that I've been thinking about over the last few months:

A Big Sur gallery — to contain my best shots from there. I thought this would replace my Coast & Bays gallery, but things went in a different direction. For now, at least, this won't be the case. I renamed it California Bays, and allowing it to begin accumulating more best of shots from San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay, and other California bays, as distinct from coastal images.

My New Mexico gallery in the Nature category (as opposed to the galleries under Travel) has also been re-aligned to include only best of shots.

The category Portfolio has been renamed Nature. This grew out of a somewhat unexpected development with my new Moo photo-business cards, on which I included: Portraits, Events & Nature Photography. In the grander scheme of things, it makes a whole lot more sense to rename my old Portfolio category to Nature, which more accurately reflects that content.

The tabs in the Navbar on the website have also been re-ordered for greater convenience, with About at the end now, and Events second after Home, followed by Nature (the old Portfolio tab). For most visitors to the my website, this should all be transparent, and simply easier to use. The Event tab only goes to the Home page when clicked on. This is because all of the top level items are already categories on their own. Some day, if Smugmug supports sub-sub-sub-categories, this might change, as well.

I haven't been updating this blog much at all lately, and will try to continue to post things here that are relevant to my photography and the site.

The main thing now is that my creative work is re-aligning along the broader areas of Portraits, Events, and Nature Photography. Hopefully, my Smugmug Pro site can keep up with this evolution, making my best work available online.

Update 4/15/2011: The Portfolio category was revived for my Best of 2010 images. I’m considering doing this every year, and may “retro” this for past years, too. Showcase galleries might also appear here in the future.