Some semi-personal meanderings beyond the click.

Now, some thoughts… I have been tasked with sorting through a family members photos (they cover quite a large amount of time) – infact its interesting to see what the subject of these photos are as time goes by. Now, the main aim of my mission with these photos is to essentially delete those without people in – I had honestly hoped that I’d be able to reduce the number of photos greatly as these will be going and getting printed.

So we start off, this young couple are exploring various parts of the world and doing many things young people would do. I come across wedding photos of the couple, but they are still travelling around and snapping away afterwards. At this point its probably 50/50 ratio of photos with people in and just scenery (beautiful scenery mind). Half way through and we see a pregnancy, then children – now I’m being more careful, I have to ensure these children aren’t small features in large photos; of course the children grow up throughout the photos.

It makes me wonder, because when I was travelling around with my own parents – it wasn’t always the case that the photographer was my parents, sometimes it would be me, and often it wasn’t pointed in the direction of my family. So I do have a minor feeling of loss, would someone be doing the same in the future with photos that I had taken of things? Does the photographer make a substantial difference to the photo and its context? Not necessarily just it’s quality.

Anyway, overall quite a wonderful experience, I could almost liken it to seeing home movies – just a snippet into someone else’s life, I do have to wonder – with the digitisation of photography how much we are losing from it. I’m doing this task because these photos have been on disc and unlooked at for a large amount of time; makes me think it might be time to invest in a digital picture frame.

So I’m doing college work, that has odours of MVC in it (but much more messy and impractical) all I want to do is spend a couple of days making an MVC and then putting it to the test on this site – which should be noted is also a “big project” for a real company. Yet that large refactoring will just have to wait until after the deadlines, though should provide a lovely experiment (being that it is just a prototype anyway).

I will have to see how it goes, but its proving to be very exciting for me – learning at quite the rapid rate, though its side effect is having too much information going through my head which wants to be put to use. I will likely post on the other-side of the hectic schedule – I’ll try and get a guide to the basic MVC going in PHP too; keep an eye out.

I’m also thinking of polishing the style up, making some alterations and releasing it is a WordPress theme for public use; though whether I do it commercially or not is another matter. I also have to finish off my communication form in the footer before this is completed for my personal use. It also dawns on me that Opera (last time I checked) didn’t support gradients or rounded corners, I suspect it won’t look too good in that.

Other projects have been started, some are now really underway – its just a shame so much of it saps from my graphical work, though I’m dabbling wherever I can find the time to do so… I’d love to get a portfolio section started.