New photography related project
Posted by Matt McGuire in 
I am starting a new photography project. It’s a new blog on a new site aimed at educating other’s about photography. My goal is to make a better resource for people just learning about photography. The site will be completely free to use.
It will take a while to write the tutorials, but in the mean time I want to try an improve the sites rankings and that is where you come in. If you have a photography related site and are willing to put a link in a single blog post to my new site I will return the favor. I will create a permanent link to your site from mattmcguire.com and you will link to the other site.
If you are interested shoot me an email at matthew.mcguire@gmail.com and I will send you the URL of the new site. Don’t bother emailing me if you have a site that is not photography related I will simply delete your email.
MattMcGuire.com has been upgraded
I just upgraded MattMcGuire.com to use the latest version of WordPress. If you see any issues let me know.
Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 L IS II USM lens
I finally purchased the Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 L IS II USM lens!! I have been saving for this lens for a while now and was able to finally pull the trigger. I have only had time to shoot a handful of photos with this lens, but I am loving it so far. The clarity of the lens is awesome and you really appreciate the 2.8 aperture in lower light situations.
Folsom Vista Freshman Football Photos
This year I will be capturing photo at all of the Folsom Vista High school Freshman football games. I am working on getting a sideline pass now so hopefully I can get some really good shots of the team.
All photos will be uploaded here and they will be organizes into one gallery for each game. I have already started taking some pre-season shots which are found in this gallery.
All of the photos are for sale, look for the buy button above each photo. If you want more photos taken of your son or daughter let me know. I am also available for JV and Varsity games. Send me an email at matt@mattmcguire.com and we can talk about the details.
Save $5 on a SmugMug.com Account
I am using SmugMug.com to host all of my photos. I have a personal account as well as a professional account. SmugMug is awesome. There are tons of features and depending on what you need they have accounts ranging from a standard account for $39.95/year up to a professional account for $149.95/year.
Even if you are not a pro, I highly recommend SumgMug. Your photos are safe. They are stored in several different location across the US. They allow you unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. They have several tools that make it easy to share photos on social networking site or via email. SmugMug customer service is second to none.
Now the best part, use my email address and they will take $5 off your first year’s fee. When signing up just the email address matt@mattmcguire.com and they will apply the discount.
Site upgraded
I just upgraded WordPress to 2.9.2. Let me know if you see any issues.
Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv
I installed a few new feature on MattMcGuire.com. This blog is now Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv enabled. Here is soem information on these features.
DoFollow – Now links in comments are dofollow, really they are no longer nofollow. This simply means search engines will see the link and give the site your linking to a little credit which will help that site’s search engine ranking.
CommentLuv – This feature will automatically your your site when commenting and pull in your last blog post. It will give your site some credit without the need for you to try and spam this site.
KeywordLuv – This will allow the link back to your site have appropriate keywords in it. Now you can post your name as something like Matt@Sacramento Photography and the link to your site will look like this Matt from Sacramento Photography
Site Update – New Theme
MattMcGuire.com is finally starting to come together. I am using WordPress to run the front end of the site. Basically everything outside of the photo galleries. For the photo galleries I am using SmugMug.
Spam Comments
Even though I dumped the old content I still get you silly spammers thinking I will publish your comments. Basically for this blog I have always had the same rule. If you comment looks to be spam I will make it as such and delete it. If you are off topic, but don’t appear to be spamming I will simply delete it. Comments are moderated and as such spammers are wasting their time here.
What’s Next?
I dumped the old blog that was found here. It was infected by some sort of Malware. I really did not invest a lot of time in the blog anyway so it was just easier to dump it.
What is next? Well I don’t know just yet. I thought about directing this domain to my photography site. I am also thought of just making it my personal blog. Without a niche market for this blog it is tough to get people to read it. Who knows what is next, but I will let you know when I know.
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