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Canon EF 70-200mm F2.8 L IS II USM lens

Matt McGuire — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:04:31 +0000

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.

Here are a couple of photos I have taken with this lens. I will post more soon.

Folsom Vista Freshman Football Photos

Matt McGuire — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:46:57 +0000

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

Matt McGuire — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:28:16 +0000

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

Matt McGuire — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:19:27 +0000

I just upgraded WordPress to 2.9.2. Let me know if you see any issues. Related posts:Site Update – New Theme Related posts:

Site Update – New Theme

Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv

Matt McGuire — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:38:50 +0000

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

All of these new features are designed to encourage and reward people for making comments here. I enjoy the interactions and it also helps the site with more content. It also has the risk of increasing spam. So just be aware that I only approve comments that are relevant to the post you are commenting on. Outright spam as well as off topic posts will simply be deleted. Have fun and comment away.

Site Update – New Theme

Matt McGuire — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:23:44 +0000

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.

SmugMug allows you to customize the look and feel on their Power and Professional level accounts. I have almost successfully matched the WordPress theme with the SmugMug theme. It has taken me several days of playing with CSS of both systems to get everything correct. There are some additional changes I am making to the SmugMug galleries, but nothing major.

If you are interested in using SmugMug I can get you a discount off of your first year. Just use my email address (matt@mattmcguire.com) in the “Email / Coupon” field on the signup form when you start a SmugMug account. You will save $5 off of your first year.

Spam Comments

Matt McGuire — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:54:37 +0000

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.

Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv

What’s Next?

Matt McGuire — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:28:02 +0000

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.

Dofollow, CommentLuv, and KeywordLuv