disjoint thoughts

I’m happy to present to the world, my own photography portfolio site!

http://benjaminsmithphotography.com/

Photography has been a hobby of mine for awhile, and I have thousands of pictures on Flickr. I’m the first to admit that most of them are utter crap. As I’ve gotten better, the ratio of crap pictures to good ones has gotten better. Still, even out of my good pictures, there’s only a few that I’d like to show to the world as my best work.

So, I decided to build a little Rails app that would show off my best photos from Flickr. I created a Set on Flickr and added my best pictures to it. Then using the Flickr API, my Rails app displays the photos in a nice, clean, professional looking layout (although I think there’s some bugs in IE). I also decided to pull posts from my blog relating to photography, giving the site some nice content as well.

I’m thinking about cleaning up the code and open sourcing it. Maybe even added support for other photo bucket sites and out blogging engines. For now, it makes for a sweet way to show off my photos.