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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

bigger isn’t always better

Posted on | September 29, 2008 | No Comments

This weekend I FINALLY got to upload/update photographs on the site. Of course, working on my laptop at home the images seemed really small (maybe because I was working on half the screen and watching Law & Order: SVU reruns on the other) so I enlarged them. Now, looking at them on a regular desktop monitor I’m going back through and fixing them. Nothing like going for aggrandizement and just looking bad.

I was also struck, when I was done, by how few images I had to add–yes, there are more images that haven’t been scanned or were scanned so long ago they’re unusable, but I haven’t been a really consistent photographer AT ALL and it’s apparent to me trying to put work up on my site. Ah well. It is what it is.

I’m also glad I switched over to this template–much cleaner, more streamlined. It’s the same template I’m using at 81Press, but I just really like it.

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

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