Yesterday (Monday) I took the plunge and began making what one might consider a drastic change to my web presence. After some much needed thought, and from a mere economic and cost cutting measure, I discontinued the hosting plan I’d had since launching my original website (left) back in 2002 or so. I’d also moved my domain name to a new host server with more features for web hosting than the original service. (I’d been paying yearly fees equivalent to what it cost to host a website ten years ago) so you know I was overpaying the last few years. After a few discussions the past few weeks with a colleague and fellow photographer, I also decided to upgrade to WordPress blog software (this new blog) and begin running things on my own server – meaning the “new” blog would be hosted on my server, and not on a freebie like the Google / BlogSpot servers as I’d had for the last 5 years or so. So this post tonight can sort of officially be considered the first new post on the new blog… There’s still quite a bit of back shop work to do here in the new software, but when everything is moved over from the old blog to this one with a slightly different theme (or design) it’ll look and flow quite nicely. Stay tuned and enjoy. “Cheers…!”
~cg.
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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