PPRE (Professional Photographers of the Redwood Empire) has awarded Ron Crain a Merit award as well as The Print of the Month award during last night’s Print Competition, held in Santa Rosa. “Wind Swept Stare” shown below was one of two submitted images for the month of July. Many thanks to the PPRE judges.

PPRE's Print of the Month for July

Building this website has been a daunting task. Decisions are slow to be made with all the options available that need to be researched and evaluated. So far in the realm of Photo shopping carts I’m really liking smugmug.com which is surprising to me because I’ve always discounted it as a serious interface with that silly face as the favicon. From a customer viewpoint, I really think the interface of selecting print options is the best. If the uploaded image, which should be the original, is not high enough of resolution to make a 16×20, that option isn’t available to the browsing customer. What could be simpler. None of the other photo shopping carts/sites I’ve seen are able to do that.

Man this window for adding text is small. Should probably use textpad to compose a posting - then cut & paste.

Ciao, Ron