Welcome to Photografica Weblog. This is my third blog. The first was a blogger blog, and while it worked OK, I was never enamored by the administration side of it. I found I hardly ever posted and so eventually I thought I’d abandon it to the mercies of cyberspace. I imagined it to be a little like real space. My poor blog, alone in the cold emptiness of nowhere, in a purgatory of abandoned web sites, waiting for google to put it out of its misery, or waiting forlornly for its owner to come back and reclaim it. But sometimes things don’t quite work out the way you expected. People keep visiting the bloody thing. I don’t have any idea how they find it. But I know they visit, because I get referrals to my photoblog from it. Hmmm… maybe I should go and give it a little hug, a few lines to let it know that even though I’ve found another, it will always have a special place in my heart – my first ever blog…

Then again, maybe I should just get on with life eh?

My second blog, the aforementioned photoblog shares its name with this blog. Photografica. It is I. My business name, and my blogs’ names. I am the parent, they are my children. Well, to be accurate, photografica creative solutions is the parent, and photografica and photografica weblog its children. OK, is that clear? The sad lonely orphaned castoff, whose name I have almost forgotten, is djaef’s verbiage. Please don’t visit him – you’ll only give him false hope (yes I know I was calling him it before, but I’m feeling a bit guilty all of a sudden).

OK, I assume the history and heirachy of my blogs are now clear. But it’s only part of the story. My online tag is djaef. I have been online since 1994 when I bought a computer that had 4MB of ram, and a whopping 20MB hard disk. I think I installed Windows 3.11 about 3 times in the next few years. In any case, I was online a fair while ago, back when many companies had no presence on the web and things like blogs were not even thought about. Search Google for djaef, and you’ll find a sordid history of interests, primarily in photography and natural parenting. But I have nothing to hide. It’s actually nice to leave a mark.

When I figure out how to edit the template, I’ll probably put up a much nicer shop front, but for now I have a lot to do in the real world, so this blog might be a slow starter.

Anyway, finally, welcome to my blog. You’ll find I’m a little verbose at times, but hopefully not too boring.