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Convergence

I've been steadily moving down a path towards simplicity and minimalism the last couple year and one of the things I've been wanting to do is to streamline my web presence. When I created my first photography blog four years ago, I dove into the web and social media head first. I signed up for just about every web community and service that came along and spent a lot of time building an audience for that website. I was able to spend the time then because I was on a hiatus from work.

Soon after returning to work however, I found myself with less and less time for photography and writing. I eventually took that website down all together. Since that time, I've started a couple other blogs at Tumblr (Random Creativity) and WordPress (Chasing Creativity). Over the last few years, I've posted to these blogs somewhat regularly. For no real reason other than wanting to share my travel photos, I  decided to return to Squarespace and start over from scratch.

Well today I decided to take yet another step down my recent path by taking down both my blogs at Tumblr and Wordpress. In doing so, I'm hoping it'll allow me to focus solely on this website without having to worry about what I'm not posting elsewhere. I think it's all really just to make me feel better, but hey, whatever works right?

Full Circle

I'm a year older today and I thought I'd mark the occasion by posting to this new Squarespace 6 ​site that I've been working on for the past week. For almost a year now, I've been sharing my thoughts and photos at Chasing Creativity which lives at WordPress. While I truly did enjoy the simplicity (and frugality) of WordPress, I always missed having the ability to create real photo galleries without moving to the self-hosted version of WordPress.  

Enter Squarespace 6; I actually stumbled upon the preview version of Squarespace while I was looking for an alternative to WordPress that would suit my needs. Well, after many hours of tinkering (which I actually enjoy), I've decided that this new platform is just what I've been looking for (at least for now). Those that know me from my other websites know that I've jumped from WordPress to Squarespace before. So I guess we'll have to wait and see if it sticks this time around.

I haven't decided if I'm going to bring what I've posted over at Chasing Creativity to this new site yet, but I'm leaning towards no at this point. I've always enjoyed the feeling that comes with starting over, so it's only probably a matter of time before I come full circle and wipe the slate clean once again.