Old Dog Photography

Well, folks — the Wordpress database that underlies this blog is misbehaving again. Since it’s the third time in as many months that I’ve been faced with the prospect of scrubbing through the database looking for corruption, this situation has given me the painful opportunity to take a hard look at things.

Meanwhile, I’ve actually started making a (tiny) bit of money off my photography — namely, off some images I’m licensing via Getty’s arrangement with Flickr. So since I’d wanted to take things in a more professional direction anyway, it occurred to me that this would be a good time for an abrupt break with the past (nearly) 2 years that I’ve been running this site.

So here’s the plan…

In a few days I’m going to push the existing database off to a related “archive” URL — so no posts or comments will be lost, but they’ll live at a slightly different address, and I’ll disable further comments on these “historic” posts at some point after the move. Meanwhile, in my super-secret underground laboratory, I’m furiously working on Rev. 2.0 of the Argos / Old Dog Photo site. When I move the old material off to the archive site, the new layout will “go live” at the current URL.

Some things will look similar, but a lot will change since I’m aiming for a more-professional looking site. Meanwhile, by starting with a “fresh” (empty) database, I’m hoping to leave some of the historic database issues behind us.

Wish me luck…