You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted regularly in a little while, so I wanted to give you a quick update. I’ve been busy with client work, so I haven’t had time to write or blog for the past few weeks.

In the grand scheme of things, a few weeks isn’t that long, but in internet time, two weeks is an eternity! I see the effect on my visitor stats after just a few days, and my YouTube channel has taken a huge hit. We’re actually gearing up for a busy season, on the photo software front if history is anything to go by, so I expect I’ll have lots more to talk about soon, but it’s been fairly quiet the past little while in terms of software announcements, or anything else of interest in the Photography World.

This has actually got me thinking about this blog a bit recently and its direction. I think I strayed too much away from its core focus over the past year or two. While I like covering software and techniques and stuff, it has partially become a news site for Photography Software, and I spend a lot of time writing about software announcements and updates, and it has partially been at the expense of other stuff. The actual photography side of things has fallen by the wayside a bit, and even software editing have taken a back seat to other things.

This wasn’t planned, but kind of happened organically, as I haven’t really been doing much photography during the pandemic. There was only so much that I could do with the old Images I had, and so, subconsciously, I took the easy route, and just reported on the comings and goings of the photo software industry. It was never really my intention for this blog to become that, but it just kind of happened.

(Above) Some recent street photography - more on that soon!

I’m now getting back to the actual photography side of things a bit more, so I’m going to try and re-focus the blog back to that core topic. I will still cover anything major that happens in the photo software world (like yesterday’s somewhat controversial Luminar Neo announcement), but it will (hopefully) go back to being driven more by my photography and sharing things that I do and how I do them. I kind of want to shake up the design a bit too - as it’s getting a bit old and stale, but that’s easier said than done on Squarespace, especially as I’ve such a large amount of content on it now. Still, it’s something I’m working on.

One quick announcement that I haven’t really talked about - I’ve put some of the products from my Gumroad store on sale. I’ve reduced the price on some of my Fuji ebooks, as these are getting out of date now, so I will be discontinuing them once I have a replacement - but for now, as some people still want the information, I’m selling them off at a discount. I’m also discounting my Capture One styles, and I’m in the process of adding back some of my Lightroom Presets, with more to come. I’m also working on some new ones.

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