And so it begins…

Welcome to PhotoCaptiva!

 

Well it has been a very long road, but we are finally starting to see our destination. Rosie and I started touting the idea of becoming photographers some time ago but we never followed through with our dream. Recently we went and bought a metric ton of camera equipment and jumped into the frigid waters of photography feet first. To our surprise the water is quite warm, and we’re definitely enjoying ourselves.

 

Then we started thinking, we need some kind of online presence in order to show the work we’ve done. So naturally we gravitated to the place where all photographers find themselves, flickr. We signed up for a pro account and we’ve been getting some great feedback on our photographs, but we still didn’t quite feel complete. What we needed was a personalized medium in which we can share our thoughts and feelings concerning photography. We needed our own site.

 

My day job if you will involves computer programming, so naturally setting up the domain would be no problem, nor any of the other various technicalities involved with site administration. However, there was a slight problem: we had no name. It took us at least a full month before we could both agree on a domain name. Finally we found ourselves with PhotoCaptiva, which is our new online home. What came next you ask? Decorating.

 

We decided that our needs would be best met with a blog style site so we went with the very best blogging software out there: WordPress Installing and getting WordPress running was no problem. No, the problem was finding a look that we both agreed on. My wife having had her own blog for some time at TellingMom.com offered to help with the site design. One thing about myself many of my friends know from firsthand experience is that I’m very, very picky. Things have to be a certain way, or no way at all.

 

After a dozen or so design iterations we finally came up with what you see today. Hopefully you enjoy the time you spend here looking at photographs and reading about our experiences as photographers.

 

~Jamie