Year: 2014

New Domains Available

More of the new batch of top-level domains became available for sale to the general public today. Of specific interest to me was the .photos domain. Of course, mikes.photos and mybest.photos and similar were all taken. However, I did pick up the one I wanted. It had been over 120$ during the pre-sale, but dropped … Read more

Cleaning the Cobwebs

News from Smoky Valley Photography! I’ve set things up so that select posts from my blog, All the Pages, are published on Smoky Valley Photography. To do that I created a new category, Smugmug, and specified the RSS feed for that category as the source for the SVP blog. Smoky Valley Photography Blog Kudos to … Read more

Smoky Valley Photography

It could be called MurphyZ Law. You know, the one where good things happen, just because. I had a four day weekend coming up when I read on Murphyz blog that some new top level domains (TLDs) had been released, including one of personal interest, dot-photography. A quick investigation revealed that none of my regular … Read more

Mike’s 365 Crosses the Finish Line

Mike’s 365 was created on the 10th of January in 2013. I created the photoblog with the goal of posting a picture a day, for a year. Not just an image a day, but an image taken and processed on the day it was posted. The effort was a complete success! I didn’t miss a … Read more

Best Photos of 2013

I took just a bit over 16,000 photos in 2013! Of course, shooting hundreds of shots at a time in pursuit of stacked image processing for star trails and macro photography caused that number to increase compared to years past, but it’s still a large number of photos for me! Also, this year I’ve been … Read more