About
The site it is intended for the beginning to intermediate level digital photographer. This blog has gone through a number of redesigns (recently from Movable Type to Wordpress), rebrandings and refocusings. Its taken me awhile to figure out what exactly to do with it but I’m now pretty happy with a small niche of digital photography and the Statement theme I’m using.
User 40.0 started as a place for me to talk about social media and software development. The name came to me when I was thinking about my generation of tech professionals that grew up with TRS-80’s, 1 inch thick Byte magazines, and Commordore Pets to name a few. While growing up in software development many of my peers lived the classic Waterfall devlopment process or may have thought they were cool when they implemented Spiral development. Our main forms of communication was email. Today of course all that has changed and old dogs need to learn new tricks. Agile development process, social media including twitter, facebook and others. These implications really drove home with me about 4 years ago when I left a 10 year career in Goverment contracting to pursue employment in the commercial side and internet development. Anyway, I’m now 42 and many of my friends my age are going through the same growing pains I lived through. This was originally meant as an assist tool for people like that.
It was a good thought but in practice I found I couldn’t keep up with quality postings and the demands of my job over the past year. I never found that balance needed to keep it going so it sat for almost a year.
Earlier this year my wife and I became enthralled with digital photography. Flickr became my online home and I’ve branched out with real estate on Smugmug and DPChallenge. On these sites I found a new group of friends that were, like me, adept at point and shoot cameras but wanting to upgrade to a DSLR. I suddenly found a topic I could easily write about and learn at the same time. I’m not trying to be a subject matter expert with the site but more of a fellow photographer thats sharing what he’s learning as he goes. This approach has worked out for me as the writing is coming easier. I try to do at least one post a week, though it seems I write in bursts with 2 to 4 days in a row with a post then 5 or so without. I’ll still do the occasional social media post but mostly stick with photography subjects like places to shoot, post processing procedures, and where to find a good deal on equipment.
