Ash Henderson Photography

While little has been done thus far with the appearance of this blog, small changes are going on behind the scenes, with the blog and with the site as a whole.

I’ve begun the slow process of consolidating my two online identities; this one, the new ‘professional’ ashhenderson.com, and the older, more relaxed ‘epicwelshman.com’.

The very goal of this blog and its parent website is to increase my exposure as a photographer in a professional capacity. In my portfolio, only my best work will be shown. This blog will have less to do with personal opinion on controversial issues (think politics, morals, etc.) and more to do with news about my burgeoning photography business, opinion in a professional sense on camera news, other photographers and things happening within the industry.

epicwelshman.com was a place for experimental photography, long ramblings and musings about anything and everything and an outlet for very personal creativity. However, that has little place on a business-focused site. People interested in hiring me for photography services have no desire to know my political stance or views on current issues; they want my skills, not my opinion.

I have to admit, one of the catalysts for this decision was the trouble I’ve been having with my photoblog. I’m using a photoblog software called PixelPost, and I’m having constant malware attacks, leading visitors to see a dreaded “this site may harm your computer” warning when visiting my site. I have to go into the site code almost daily to erase the malicious lines that somehow pop up now and again, and it’s awful. Now, to be fair, I haven’t upgraded the software to the newest version, which may fix my issue, but to back up the site I’d have todownload about 3GB of data via FTP, which is no fun.

So, in short, my online identity has split in two. I do have a personal written blog, where I am unafraid to express my views, and my personal photographic blog (at least for the time being). And now I have this blog, a place purely for photography. I will link to this blog and this website from my personal blog, so those who agree with my views or at least are willing to entertain a difference of opinion will be able to see the extent of my work. But I won’t be linking from this site to my personal site, for the reasons outlined above.

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