Category: Black and White Photography

  • How many times am I going to try again? Maybe I will go for broke.

    Black and white photo of a Snow Leopard at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. It shows the snow leopards head and shoulders. This photo was taken in 2009

     

    Snow Leopard at Stone Zoo – 2009

    My two biggest concerns have always been losing all my previous posts if I totally revise things, and having to try, all over again, to have this blog have the same format as my website, ArtNortonPhoto.

    First concern – Losing all my previous posts.

    I am guessing that there might be a way to export all the “data” and then import it after I re-do the format of the blog.

    I need to research this and probably do a chat with the WordPress support center. I have been told that they are very helpful.

    Second concern – Should the blog be the same format as my website?

    Some people would say “Yes. You need things to be consistent.” But I am really wondering about that. I am beginning to think that it is quite acceptable to treat them as two separate entities but still have them linked.

    My plan at this point is to spend some time going back and watching some of the beginner tutorials on YouTube and see if I can get comfortable with things again and then have a chat with tech support.

    AND an Oops

    I didn’t realize that somewhere along the way, I shut off the tool that allowed someone that looked at the post to sign up for notifications. I think I have fixed that. 😊

    I guess that is all for now. I am going to spend the rest of today looking at tutorials.😒

    Thanks for stopping by!

    Art

  • Who knows what is next

    The 1761 Old Mill Restaurant in Westminster, Massachusetts

    I am definitely not very consistent with this blog. I haven’t touched it since last October. Yikes.

    I have even received emails from the WordPress.com support team to see if I would like some help and I haven’t yet taken them up on it.

    I guess my biggest hesitation is not being able to decide which way I should go. I currently have my website using SmugMug and my blog is with WordPress.com. SmugMug does not have an actual blog function available, so the question becomes do I leave things the way they are and get the blog as close to the same appearance as the website or do I develop a completely new website AND blog using WordPress.com for the hosting and then eventually cancel my SmugMug account? The other alternative is to go with a new hosting service and then build a new website and blog using WordPress.org which I am told has a lot more flexibility with templates and stuff then WordPress.com.

    Oh well, I’ll figure it out one of these days.

    Until then, I hope you will enjoy the black and white photo that I took of The 1761 Old Mill in Westminster, MA. It is a great restaurant with a delicious menu.

  • Blog, here I come

    Well, after a lot of poking around the internet and looking at WordPress and how to do things, I have decided to keep going with a blog. It is going to be a lot of work and I am sure I will make tons of errors along the way.

    Long exposure of rock surounded by water.
    Rock in the Water at Ashland Reservoir