Showing posts with label Half-Pint Prints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Half-Pint Prints. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2010

Half-Pint Prints Winter 2009-2010

Well, where to begin?  For starters, halfpintprints.com is now stephenskoutas.com, and that is the website of the newly launched Stephen Skoutas Photography.  Over the next year, we're going to put more emphasis on building this business, and a concerted effort into bringing the highest quality photography and prints that we can to our family, friends, and clients.  I'd like to thank Jody for the encouragement and support to help me make this decision.  This business will remain a part-time endeavor.

That said, I would appreciate your input, your referrals, and your kind words if you know people that are looking for a photographer, particularly a portrait / event photographer.  The business phone is (401) 227-0123 should you need to share it with someone who might want my services.  I thank you. 

There have been a ton of under-the-hood changes to the website, so if you find anything that doesn't work as it should, please let me know.  I'm still coding parts of the site, but incomplete sections are quite obvious.

This update is long overdue.  Our last password change was summer '09.  Check your email for the new password.  It has been sent out by bulk email today.  If you didn't receive it, send me a message.

Please also remember that you can find me on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sskoutas) or Twitter? http://twitter.com/sskoutas.

There is a ton of new content on the site.  Here are some of the highlights:
  • As always, new images of Emily, Zack, and Zoey continue to be posted with regularity. 
  • Speaking of Emily, she has her own Fisher Price digital camera now, and here is a gallery of her work (link)
  • The Little Gym (link)
  • Mystic Aquarium with cool Katz (link)
  • Haley's 4th (link)
  • Becky & Sarah's birthday (link)
  • Rachel's 3rd (link)
  • Kid's and Toddler's Track & Field (link)
  • Davis Farmland (link)
  • Andrew's Birthday (link)
  • Hope's Birthday (link)
  • the Trazi Harvest Party (link)
  • Lalloween (link)
  • Trunk-or-Treat (link)
  • Mikie's 4th (link)
  • Emmy's 4th (link)
  • a bunch of family studio shoots for the Holidays (category link here, select individual galleries within)
  • Paul's photo shoot at the park (link)
  • A pass-the-camera series of snapshots from Blake's Tavern (many of these images are not taken by me... everyone took pictures.  link)
  • video - Zack sings about some dude named "Santa." (link)
  • video - Zoey learns to crawl (link)
  • as always, there are scattered additions thoughout the site, particularly in "the family album"
All major content updates are posted at the blog (http://blog.stephenskoutas.com/) and each blog entry contains a link to the related gallery. The easiest way to track the updates is by subscribing to the blog RSS feed at the top of any blog page (the subscribe button) or clicking here.

Lastly, and as always:
  • If you don’t want to be on this distribution list, email me and you will be removed.
  • If you have pictures up here that you don’t want up here, tell me and they will be removed.
  • If you have any password concerns with your images, let me know.
  • If you want a gallery password protected that isn’t, let me know.
  • If you know someone would want to be added, tell them to email me.
  • Feel free to share gallery access with others that might be interested.
  • Contributions for “The Old Shoebox” and “Photographs and Memories” nostalgia galleries always welcome.
Take care, and have a happy, healthy, and joyous New Year!


Sunday, July 19, 2009

Half-Pint Prints Summer 2009 Update

Summer is finally here! It took until July to get here, but now that it is, its glorious.

The password has been sent to you by email. If you didn't receive it, email me and I'll get it to you.

This is the Half-Pint Prints update for Spring 2009. I am thrilled to announce that for the first time in over a year, I am caught up on photographs and photography projects. This update represents the final step in completing that goal. Now for those of you that I owe things to, I will be trying to catch up on those next.

If you're on Facebook, send me a friend invite (http://www.facebook.com/sskoutas). Prefer Twitter? http://twitter.com/sskoutas.

There is so much in this update that I'm not going to bother with the usual technical updates and changes to the site. Lets go right on to the photos:

The Main Event:
  • Welcome, Zoey Rose (link)
Birthdays:
  • Peanut's Birthday (link)
  • Dylan's Birthday (link)
  • Molly's Birthday (link)
  • Sophia's Birthday (link)
  • Mackenzie's Birthday (link)
  • Michael's Birthday (link)
  • Mason's Birthday (link)
Weddings:
  • Congratulations, Christi and Anthony (link)
  • and here is their rehearsal dinner (link)
Other stuff:
  • Planting day on the farm (link)
  • ZQ's first haircut (link)
  • 4th of July at Mike's (link)
  • Peanut's Dance Class Rehearsal (link)
  • Disneyland '08 (link)
  • Christmas '08 (told you I was behind) (link)
  • Sesame Street Live (link)
  • The Little Gym (link)
And as always:
All updates are posted at the blog (http://blog.halfpintprints.com/) and each entry contains a link to the related galleries. The easiest way to track the updates is by subscribing to the blog feed at the bottom of any blog page or clicking here.

Lastly, and as always:
  • If you don’t want to be on this distribution list, email me and you will be removed.
  • If you have pictures up here that you don’t want up here, tell me and they will be removed.
  • If you have any password concerns with your images, let me know.
  • If you want a gallery password protected that isn’t, let me know.
  • If you know someone would want to be added, tell them to email me.
  • Feel free to share gallery access with others that might be interested.
  • Contributions for “The Old Shoebox” and “Photographs and Memories” nostalgia galleries always welcome.
Take care, and enjoy this beautiful summer!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

site work

All truly photography related endeavours are currently on hold as I do a lot of behind-the-scenes tinkering with the website. Most changes are geared toward protection of the galleries from unwanted guests and protection of the images and their copyright. The only change you are likely to notice as a visitor to the galleries is the addition of a watermark in the lower right corner of most images. These watermarks do not appear on prints ordered from the website.

Another huge bit of behind-the-scenes upgrading is the way images are printed. My host company (SmugMug) has paired up with two professional labs to make your prints look stellar. They are now using EZ Prints and Bay Photo for the actual production of prints. I expect beautiful results. I have some samples on order now, and I can't wait to receive them.

Back to the photography by this weekend, I hope.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Holiday slump

Sorry the updates have been so few and far between. Holidays...

I'm working on all of the late-October California pictures right now. Some are posted, more will follow this week.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Working on the bulk-email

I'm drafting the bulk-email password change right now, and hope to have the full update out to everyone by this Sunday. Happy Friday!

Friday, October 24, 2008

My G1 delayed

No T-Mobile G1 for the weekend. Oh well. We'll see what happens next week.

As for Half-Pint and photography related issues, I've stalled. I'm midway through processing images from a great June Road trip to NJ to see Caroline and Scott, and I'd like to get going on processing / posting the rest. However I got sidetracked by the technical and hosting changes to the blog. I'm now publishing only one blog, and that is this one hosted and powered by blogger.

There are a couple of javascript based errors that need to be resolved, and for right now the "email" link (at the top of this blog page) and the "recent additions" link (same place) do not function. If you want those links, click "home" (which will exit the blog and return you to half-pint prints) and then those two buttons will work.

Lots and lots of photography shooting planned for next week. I'm looking forward to it greatly.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Blogger vs. WordPress

I am looking into Blogger instead of WordPress as a potential home for the Half-Pint Blog. The WordPress version is at www.blog.halfpintprints.com, and the Blogger version is (at least temporarily) located at www.halfpintprints.blogspot.com.

Initially, I think WordPress has a cleaner look, whereas Blogger is more customizable to fit the look of www.halfpintprints.com.

I'll need a few weeks to work with each and decide on the final content engine.