Welcome to the new site, and thank you for visiting. I suppose this is ArcticTim.ca 3.0, and I hope I will not have to do any upgrades that leave content behind in the near future. However, leaving the old ArcticTim.ca behind is something of a blessing… perhaps.
Up until now, my website has been: a personal website, detailing miscellaneous ongoings or thoughts crossing through my mind. It has been a professional website, sharing links and resources relating to teaching in fields of media and technology. It has been a photography website, with me posting various recent images to galleries. In short, it has been all over the place. What started as a blog grew into a wild incongruous mix of core aspects of my life. With ArcticTim 3.0, we get to start fresh.
Photography is currently my most favoured hobby. It also reaches into my professional life, as I teach Photography and Digital Imaging. It is something that I have had a longstanding interest in and have continued to develop, at different intensities at different times of my life, as the years wash over me. It is something that I am determined to get better at and something that I might consider marketing in the future, should I advance my skills sufficiently. So ArcticTim 3.0 is now a photography website, chronicling my successes, mishaps and goals.
What’s New? The Photo of the Week is the most notable new addition. As part of my challenge to become a better photography, I am forcing myself to publish my favourite photograph from each week. This means I have to take a lot of pictures each week. With any luck, this practice coupled with careful thought will lead to notable improvements in the quality and consistency of my work.
What’s Gone? I have left behind the Teaching Resources section of the website. I am a teacher, and if you have any questions at all about my teaching or would like me to share any resources I may have, please feel free to get in contact with me. I am also leaving behind posts relating to my personal whimsical thoughts – while my whimsy may be reflected in future posts, they will not be whimsy for the sake of whimsy. The site is decreasingly about me and increasingly about my photography.
For those of you who enjoyed reading my tumultuous adventures, fret not – there will inevitably be plenty of mishaps for me to write about or even share photos of. Photography is simply to glue that will hold this new and improved version of the site together – I, complete with my sens of adventure, inescapable charm and penchant for mischief and mishap, am still at its core.
Please feel free to comment, e-mail me, or tweet to me on Twitter (@ChouBot) with any comments, questions, criticisms or complaints. I hope you like the new and [hopefully] improved ArcticTim.ca – enjoy it in good health.
Flowers at 13th St. Winery
Vineland, ON, 2011)