So I finally have an online presence to call my own. I'm pleased and little relieved to have taken the first step, but this site is not what I initially imagined it would be. To start with I really wanted a super snappy title. But it seems easier to think up a name other people are already using, than something original. landscapecityscape.photos It does what it says on the box, good enough (at least to start with). Creating a logo would have been a nice flourish but it's not one of my skills so I shall wait a while to get some help on that.
With the name box ticked, and a domain name bought, I planned my site. My design ideas were brought a little short when I found I didn't want to learn html from scratch, and that I was going to be adapting an 'off the shelf' template. Choosing the template proved to be secondary to finding the resources to fill it. This amounted to a lot of basic administration. Part of which was seeking out the images that I remembered taking. Another task was finding others misplaced in oddly named directories, or old external hard drives. The upshot was I often had to go back to the source files to regrade, reformat or in some instances remake the panoramas. Very beneficial but a harsh lesson in keeping my files orderly. To be fair I've now quite a big archive of other images to draw on and this process could merrily continue for a lot longer. But I think 40 or so panoramas is a good number to start with. I expect I shall add more of my archive images from time to time.
Getting online has been a learning curve and a huge step forward. I'm pleased to finally have a showcase for some of the images which have resided for a long time at the bottom of my digital filing cabinet, unseen. However I also learned a lot from the process of creating this site, and it's definitely going to influence my future photography. I shall no longer include swear words or nicknames in my filenames. Even if they fail to stitch or if things shifted in the shot whilst I was taking it. Additionally I shall make a definite decision on what format I'm taking a photo in. So it will more easily become part of a series of images with a similar theme.