Why a Jokar Photography blog?

First post. Better get off on the right foot, eh? Need to set the scope right… So what’s this going to be about anyway?

I’ve been posting ‘selected’ images to my little web site at www.jokar.com.au for some time – about five years now. It’s built largely around the excellent jAlbum software, and uses the Chameleon skin for presentation and navigation functionality. I really like the jAlbum system – it’s easy to use, neatly structured, pretty intuitive for the user and likewise the creator … and, as shareware, the price is pretty good too!

jAlbum is, however, all about presentation of images, and although you can put labels in against folders and individual images in the software, you’ve mostly got to let the images speak for themselves, and it’s not easy to put in much in the way of text. So, when I recently got around to ‘refreshing’ the look, feel and some of the content of the Jokar site, it seemed like a good time to add a blog to the revamped site.

‘The plan’, FWIW, is to document some images from the main Jokar site, to write a little about the circumstances of making the image, what (if anything!) I was trying to do, what I think about it, and maybe a little about the technology and process of creating the original image and any post-processing done to it. That’s going to be useful for me – and if it turns out that anyone else is interested in reading it – then so much the better!

I’m pretty new to WordPress, and a complete novice at installing and hosting a blog site on my own server, so I expect there will be some changes to the site as I get it up and running, settle on a final theme etc – and no doubt some glitches along the way too.

I’ll welcome any (non-libelous) comments – please post comments or email me directly if you’d like to make contact