Allchorn Design

No rest for the wicked, or should that be “no rest for the industrious”. I’m hoping the latter is the case as I don’t feel particularly wicked. With a slow start to 2008, things have thankfully picked up quite considerably around here.

From the inception of a new professional photography service called From the Camera with my photography partner Jason Wilkinson, to the creation of Sitepress, for affordable yet professional content managed website design and the every day running of the constantly growing motorsport photography blog, Circuitchaser.com.

Yeah, I’d guess you could say I’ve been busy. Working during the week sorting and editing humungous batches of images, writing newsletters and blog posts, while setting up Sitepress and From the Camera from a business, legal and financial standpoint. No small task, and I hope it doesn’t all go unrewarded.

From the Camera - Professional Photography Service

As briefly mentioned above, Jason and I have officially teamed up in a 50/50 effort to provide a professional photography service specialising in functions, sports, weddings and food. With our experience combined, we have a considerable amount of expertise in all of those fields of photography.

I’ll be the first to admit that Jason is a more experienced photographer than me, and I am constantly learning from him and new things just about every time I go out in the field. My most recent shoot at Killarney providing me with one of my most prized collections of images thus far.

Sitepress - Affordable Content Managed Websites

Not everyone can afford to cough up the initial R10 - R15,000 required to get a custom designed website with an elegant, easy to use content management system to edit their own content. I thought it would be a good idea to offer this service including…

• a free initial consultation
• domain name registration
• web hosting with email
• custom design
• configuration
• training and support

…all on a slightly different payment model. Based on the cellphone industry’s contract system, I’ve introduced Sitepress to accommodate budgets with 4 options. You can get the site on a 24, 12 or 6 month contract, or go the whole hog with a 50% deposit and balance on completion. Pricing is all on the website, so check it out if you’re interested.

Circuitchaser.com - Motorsport Photography Blog

My baby for the last few years. Circuitchaser has grown and matured since I started it in the beginning of 2006. My grand plans of hitching a ride to the world’s MotoGP’s a little humbled by my realisation of what it costs both in time and money to get to that level, but as things progress, I know I’ll get there one day.

Concentrating mainly on local events like the Boland Bikes/RST track schools, as well as the Mike Cameron Track days, the WPMC regional racing and the occasional national or international events that come our way.

With a newsletter that now goes out weekly(ish) I’m keeping people in touch with whats happening on the coming weekend, as well as what galleries are up from the previous one. The unique gripes of HTML emails rearing their ugly heads and giving me a headache, but nothing that cannot be countered.

Well, for what it’s worth, thats what I’ve been busy with lately, and with what it all entails, I’m likely to be good and busy well into 2008. I thought it would be nice to share with you all what is on the cards, and keep you up to speed.