New Rack Card for Southwest Alabama created for the University of Alabama Center for Economic Development, for the www.alabamasfrontporches.com project.
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A New Website for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama
Just finished a quick redesign for the Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama. Redesigned using, as I pretty much do all websites now, in WordPress. Very flexible, very simple. Now, they can make their own updates!
New Website for Southwest Alabama
My brother-in-law, Billy Milstead, retired several years ago. Since then, he’s developed a real passion for all things Southwest Alabama. He’s got a real interest in documenting all the historic places in the area–of which there are many, many, many. He worked on the Alabama’s Front Porches project for a year, traveling the roads and taking photos as a AmeriCorps Vista volunteer. After he finished that project, he wanted to do more. I’ve now built him a website (Rural Southwest Alabama) to hold all these photos, maps and descriptions in a way that lets people from the outside world explore what the rural Black Belt has to offer.
Black Belt Adventure Part II
Friend Ben Burford and I took another fun trip into the Black Belt: this time to Selma, Old Cahaba (Cahawba), Marion and Greensboro, Alabama. Check out my flickr page for more photos or read about our first adventure on Ben’s blog.
Photos from my Trip to Gee’s Bend and the Black Belt
Well, my intent is to add these photos as a slideshow so they’ll be visible within the blog page, but, for some reason, Slideshow Pro’s upgrade to their Lightroom plugin isn’t really working in the way that it did before. For now, I’m just creating a completely separate page for the slideshow.
These photos are some of the photos I took on a trip to Selma, Gees Bend and Camden (and all points between). There are some interesting photos…I’ll wind up using many of these photos on the www.alababmafrontporches.com website.
Cataloging Photos of Alabama Scenes
I’ve always liked this shot (taken in 2003 between Selma, Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama). The grass is green and the water and sky are blue–thanks in part to a little touch up work in Adobe Lightroom. I’m thinking of using this photo in a project I’m currently working on for the Southwest Alabama Rural Tourism group (www.alabamasfrontporches.com). It is in large part thanks to Adobe Lightroom that I’m even able to track it down. I’ve since gone through and done a better job of keywording some of my photos with place specific tags (they already have keywords relating to the specific city/town but not to the larger region. I’ve gone through and tagged about 500 or more with Southwest Alabama in addition to rural or byway or Marion or Greensboro. Hopefully, this will help me in this project and in the future.