It has been a while since my last post, and I am sure you are all just dying to know what I have been up to lately. While my life has been a whirlwind of changes lately, I have come to some decisions that may disappoint some people while making others extremely happy. I think the recent economic crisis has had a lot to do with those decisions, and I hope to improve my way of life based on those decisions.
I have decided to stay in Sacramento for now. My initial plan was to drive back up to Alaska this month and drum up some more freelance work, but with the way the economy is going, the drive alone would cost me no less than a thousand dollars. That does not even account for food and lodging. While this may disappoint some close friends of mine in Alaska, it has made old friends, and of course family, extremely happy. That said, I do plan on making a visit to Anchorage during the summer to visit with friends and clients.
With my decision to stay down in California, I am going to switch gears from the world of web work, and pursue my passion for portrait photography. I am well aware that making a living as a portrait photographer is extremely difficult, so I am going to try and use the right mixture of combining my passion for photography and my experience with web and graphic design, and online marketing, to come to a happy medium.
I recently tuned my business website, ThinkTunk.com, to reflect an appropriate slant for the direction I am now headed. While this site will eventually expand into two separate websites, it is currently serving my need for two specific niches. One of them being portrait photography services in Sacramento, California. The other being web solutions for models and photographers. Please check it out here: Sacramento Photography. I have also started a new blog that will supplement that site and you can view it here: Sacramento Photography Blog
I look forward to all the feedback this news will generate, both negative and positive. I hope the day finds you all well.
eric
T-shirt Fashion
Written by Eric Courtney
Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:19
What is it with the style of t-shirts for men these days? I guess I'm not looking hard enough for something I like, but if your typical department stores (i.e. Macys, Sears, Gottchalks, Target, etc.) are any indication of what the current trend is, I guess I am definitely not fashionably casual looking anymore.
I went shopping last weekend to buy some new shirts. I don't really need any new t-shirts because the drawers to my dresser are hard to close right now as it is. On the other hand, I am getting that weird internal feeling that nags your subconscious that suggests people are starting to identify you solely for the shirts you're wearing. The feeling is so bad that I know when I get dressed to go bowling on Friday nights that I make it a point not to wear the same shirt that I wore the previous Friday. I mean if I wore my shirt that reads FRAK OFF across the front every Friday night, people in my bowling league would perceive me to be a complete Battlestar Galactica nerd, which I am, but that is not the image of myself I want to convey. Am I OCD? If you answered yes, I would probably agree with you.
Hi everyone. As you can obviously tell, there is a "slightly" different look to EricCourtney.com now. I have switched to a different Content Management System (CMS) now, and I decided to start from scratch. Being a new year and all. Please bear with as I play with different themes and re-organize my content. Thanks for your patience. Happy New Year!
Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 January 2009 01:52
New Year Starts off with a Cough...
Written by Eric Courtney
Friday, 09 January 2009 13:49
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a most excellent holiday season. I spent mine being sick with a nasty cold, and of course it hit in its peak stage on Christmas Day. Today is January 9, and I am still trying to shake the cough that came with the misery.
As you can see by the dark background of this site that I was not completely unproductive during that ugly spell of health. You will also notice that the format is a lot different. It is because I redesigned the entire website. Obvious really, isn't it? If any of you are familiar with CMS (Content Management Systems), you will completely understand when I say that I switched from using Drupal to using Joomla (1.5). I did give Drupal a chance by trying to upgrade, but that application is not the smoothest palms in a row of dish washers, if you catch my drift. I ran into so many errors and issues that I finally just wiped the whole program completely off my hosting space. Thank gawd I saved all my content to a separate app first, otherwise I would have been starting completely from scratch. All the content from my old site is now on my current site, but since it is dated, I'm not going to smash it in your face. It's all under the deepest depths of Blog-o-rama if you want to make the trip down memory lane.
I need 20 referrals. Hopefully you can help me out. I apologize for this message being spam and all, but it is spam that has been prepared by Eric. Plated nicely with all that jelly stuff scraped off and a little cheese to garnish it all.
