This is just a little plug for my web hosting company. I have used several web hosting companies in the past. However a couple of years ago, I was fed up with the price and poor customer service that I recieved from my hosts.

On recommendation from a friend, I checked out a company called Big Wet Fish. They are a local company, well, local to me, based in Northern Ireland. I do like to support local businesses where possible.

There prices for their various packages are very reasonable and I have 3 or 4 different products with them. There is one thing that really stands out for me though. Their customer service is second to none, it really is fantastic. On the rare occasion that I have had to contact them, any problems have been resolved incredibly quickly.

For more information or to get hosting from them, you can check them out at www.bigwetfish.co.uk or click in the advert on the left hand side of my blog.

“Seven by Five was set up as a photography community blog focusing on sharing ideas, influences and inspirations. The blog is about photography content with learning being the key from photo themes, polls and tutorials through to tips from professional photographers the site is popular with photographers keen to take their art to the next level. The Photo Profile series has been very successful offering artists not only a platform to share their work but also their photography philosophy.  At the same time the profiles offer a great source of inspiration fuelling the monthly flickr photo theme where visitors add their photos on a particular theme to the 7×5 flickr group. “.

“The hope is that the site will grow to a busy community with competitions and evidence of learning from those who use it. There are no rules, if you have an idea suggest it as poll or theme on seven by five ?”

You will no doubt have noticed that this blog has been very empty lately, with no regular posts. There is good reason for this.

Any of you regular readers will know that Lorraine and I recently got married. The past couple of months have been really busy, changing names and addresses on all sorts of thing, getting the apartment furnished, and generally enjoying being married. It’s great by the way. All this has pushed blogging way down my list of priorities, and to be honest it has been nice to have to break. Over the next days and weeks I will be starting to update this blog again. What and when I blog is yet to be decided, but one thing I do know is that I will probably be blogging more photos that normal posts.

There have been a couple of changes on the blog. A new theme, I wanted a fresh look, but haven’t had time to customise the new theme, but it is a new look. I will be tidying up my blog roll and links, removing old link, adding new ones. I have also enabled moderated comments, so after you comment I will have to approve your comments. The reason for this is while I was on honeymoon, and continuously since, there have been a number of comments from someone impersonating me. It is very annoying, and I wish i didn’t have to moderate my comments, but unfortunately that’s the way it will have to be, but for you regular commenters hopefully that won’t put you off commenting.

Back in June I took my photography website offline while I built a new one. It has taken considerably longer than I had plan, and for no reason really other than I have been pretty busy and never got around to getting it back online.

I have finally put a new website up, and there are a few bugs to work out, and little changes to make, but at least it is a website. Oh and don’t use it in Internet Explorer, it won’t work (yet).

www.cmc-photos.co.uk

Let me know what you think.