It doesn’t have to be pretty; it only has to work

Welcome to the thing I’ve been meaning to do for, oh, two years now? By which I mean, I am posting to you from my new WordPress installation, which is hosted on (nearly) the same server as my website, putting all of this more properly under my control. (How can it be nearly the same server? It’s a server administered by my brother, who also runs the server that has my site, but at the moment they’re separate due to technical issues that will be solved when he has a spare moment to run the upgrade he’s been meaning to arrange for the last two years.)

Anyway, if all goes well, this will also crosspost to Dreamwidth and LJ. We’ll see what happens when I hit “publish.”

You may notice that the actual WordPress page isn’t very pretty yet. That will be fixed — hopefully soon — but right now, the priority was to get this up and running. In fact, you might say that was one of my New Year’s Resolutions. Let’s see if it works!

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

A Year in Pictures: San Francisco Tea Garden

One of the reasons I pushed to get the WordPress thing started up finally is, this project is much easier to wrangle through here than through LJ/DW.

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve gotten more interested in photography lately. I’ve been taking better pictures in general, then cleaning the results up in Lightroom. I’d like to share them with you, and so I give you: A Year in Pictures. Every weekday from now until the end of the year, I’ll post one of my favorite shots, with a brief note about what it is and why I like it. (The order will be randomized, so you don’t get giant wodges of Italy or Japan or wherever all at once.)

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This is a statue in the Golden Gate Park Tea Garden. On this particular day it was typical San Francisco weather: mildly gloomy, raining a little, i.e. not generally the best for photography. It worked well for this shot, though, because of the statue’s slightly melancholy air and the vivid green of the bamboo. Plus, by this point I was starting to learn something about good framing, which is a concept that really escaped me in my earlier years . . . .

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.