Jordan is a photographer, philosopher, humanitarian, and human. He enjoys thought-provoking conversations and interesting adventures. Come take a look through his eyes.

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Sunday
Mar082009

A change in direction?

I'm unsure of how to proceed with this blog. My original plan was to keep in focused purely on photography-related business. But as most of my friends know, I don't fit things into boxes very well, and different parts of my life tend to spill together into a slightly jumbled mess. Regardless, I want to start blogging more seriously about other areas of my life after being inspired by the Great Blog-Off, which is currently running between Jeff Hawker, Tony Bookless, Alan Schram, and Adam Loewen. The question is whether I should expand my blog here, an integral part of my website, or whether I should keep my non-photography-related thoughts elsewhere. I like the idea of having an integrated web personality, rather than a segregated one. At this point in my career, I'm not terribly worried if I lose some business because people find out that I am an overly-anxious random-trivia-loving moderately liberal Christian. These are all parts of my character, parts of what make me, well, me. Another possibility is to modify this blog so that jordanshawphotography.com points to the 'business' related posts, and then have links to the integrated 'all posts' or a separate stream of 'personal' or 'theology' related posts. The only real problem with this plan is that I have no idea how to do it, or even if it can be done using WordPress architecture. In the future, I will blog more. Why? Well, according to the great Adam Loewen (I'm not linking that, you already got one link Adam, don't be greedy), Blogging is the answer to everything. But more seriously I want to start blogging more because I am soon moving to East Hastings to live for eight months among the homeless and nearly-homeless there. I want to record that journey, and no journey starts the second one steps on to the road. Every journey has a million little stages before the physical journey begins, and so too is the case here. This month leading up to my move feels like a vitally important prologue. And now for a picture! This is one of my favorites from a recent trip to Disneyland with my family. Good times. Hannah!