Note: If you'd rather not read all this and move directly to the photo gallery, please follow this link: photo.michaelper.com

How we got here...

What happened to the good old michaelper.com, you might ask? Well, to tell you the truth, I just got tired of maintaining it. See, I never actually finished coding it the way I envisioned and I finally realized that it would never happen as I have less and less time to work on it. It looked ok, sure, but was a pain in the ass to add new pictures or manage captions. When I started it back in 2001 there were virtually no alternatives but to create the site myself. Now there are quite a few hosted solutions to choose from with good set of features and the ease of use I've been looking for. Also, I've been abusing the kindness of my friend and web provider Elliot Goykhman for way too long. I've been taking tons of disk space on his servers and I don't even know how much bandwidth. Thank you, Elliot, for these wonderful years.

So here's the new plan. I moved all the pictures to the phanfare site photo.michaelper.com (still have to move the captions) so please feel free to go and check them out. Actually, while I'm at it, phanfare is really cool. It gives you unlimited disk space, no ads, hosts full size images and integrates with online photo printing services. But the selling point for me was their client software that makes the site management a breeze. Check them out and if you decide to sign up let me know, I could earn a free year of service if you mention me as a referral (wink, wink).

I will also maintain this blog to let you know when I post new pictures or videos or if I just have something interesting to share.

Well, that's about all for now. Let's get this thing started.