I’ve been holding off on this announcement for months trying to figure out just how to do this and make it fully incorporated. I’ve finally figured it out. OK, so I was a little slow on the uptake. It was a busy time and I took forever to *DING* on just what I had to do.

Hey, this is why I say I’m the Jacalyn of all Trades, Master of None. I can do a great many things, but sometimes I miss out on the glaringly obvious. It’s OK. It makes me loveable when I am clueless, right?

At any rate… the big announcement? I’ve changed the hosting of my pictures on my personal site to using SmugMug. Why? Well sure, keeping everything in house is easier and whatnot, but SmugMug offers a great deal of awesomeness that I just had to share.

The best thing? You can order your photos off of SmugMug yourself! So you don’t have to wait for me or compile orders from your extended family. I know that Great Aunt Ida isn’t always the easiest to get a hold off since she’s always off with the Red Hat Ladies. It’s all right. She can do it herself if she wants!

Mostly, I like the ease of their site and the organization. I’ve been loving on them and all their products. I got this beautiful floating mounted enlargement of Janellen’s family and it was absolutely stunning! I printed a photo book for Aaron and Tara’s wedding and loved it. The printers are full pro quality labs and that takes my end product to you up just that extra notch.

So anyway, there you go. Really you won’t notice much change. Blog entries still going up and all that. However my new proof pages (Check them out! I really got them updated!) will now go in super fast. I did my last five jobs in one day! Woot! They can be ready at the same time as the blog entry! Isn’t that great? If you click on the thumbnail, you can open the lightbox to view the pictures larger and at the bottom of the page is a link to the gallery for more viewing/ordering.

So there you go!

That said, I am still dealing with slow upload times. Nothing I can do for that except send complaints to Verizon. I’m trying to upload another job so I can post about it. Meanwhile I’m editing a mammoth job along the lines of Janellen’s family. And yes, I’m also working on uploading more Utah photos so that I can post a few more about that in my personal blog crossover.

This year I’ve already got two weddings in the works. One for sure and one hopeful. What else shall 2010 bring? We can but only wait and see!

And since a photoblog is nothing without a photo… here’s one of the chicken I made at Christmas. Silly photo to post, I know, but I’m very proud of it. I’m *cough cough* 28 *cough cough* and never baked a chicken before!

Hey check it out! I baked a chicken for the first time and it actually looks like something you might want to eat!

–Have Camera, Will Travel
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