This week I’ve been mostly trying to build this website.

I actually started building my new website about a month or two ago but then, oops squirrel and I was off on another equally important side quest so didn’t get back to it until yesterday.

I like to think of myself as being a capable person but to be honest my understanding of all things technical  has quite a low limit. That being said I was smashing through it yesterday which would have been great if I’d not forgotten what on Earth I was doing at the same time as deciding I didn’t like the format. I did or didn’t press something and lost the shop and all of it’s contents. I panic pressed so many things then that I was totally lost. About 10 hours of hand wringing, button pressing, a caramel wafer or two and much huffing later and it was redone. Phew! It’s nowhere near finished yet but as my previous site was coming to the end of this year’s subscription charges I needed to get something up with a bit of an overlap. 

As usual I haven’t done things in the right order so didn’t have photographs of all the work I wanted to put on the site. However, I had got a lighting system I’d bought from Facebook Marketplace (though not even looked at since buying them at Christmas!) and my son coming over for the weekend with a nice camera. So, I’m just going to dive out on a small aside for a moment to say I’ve been listening to Art Juice, the podcast with Louise Fletcher and Alice  Sheridan, for years but  missed the first 2 year’s worth so have spent a year so far catching up. Pretty much every episode I listen to answers something I have needed to know in the preceding couple of of days or will need in the subsequent few days. So this week’s timely gem from Alice was having to have your shutter speed set so the flickering of studio lights does not interfere with your photographs/filming. Well, who knew that? Anyway I got a few good enough photos for the website and know roughly how to set the lights up for the future.

A very long day

I must tidy up!

Just testing whether my bargain £20 lighting works.