The Japan Page

I started my own stock photography site back in late 2000, perfect timing just at the end of the .com dot bust. I ended up ripping out the shopping cart and leaving the shell up to display the photos. Along comes a big project at work, then my daughter arrived...

Fast forward 5 years, my daughter is almost 4 now. I moved back home to California, just wrapped up a big Exchange migration, and discovered SmugMug, based in Mountain View CA.

SmugMug is a great, professional level digital image hosting site for photographers. Be advised, it's not free and has enough features to drive an end-user batty, but if you're a semi-pro photographer (like me, I just don't have the time to be a pro) or a real pro but don't want to host your own site, this is the place to be.

I had previously scanned around 1500 of my best slides (positives) out of around 10,000 in my library. I'm adding the descriptions and keywords and posting the galleries up on photography.JohnSeaman.com .

It will take a while to get everything posted, classifying and adding keywords makes me really sleepy at night. But it's a lot better than the previous web site that sat stagnant for 5 years. Not only that, the photos can be purchased as prints and delivered right to your house.