My New Photography-Based Website

After 20+ years in one online space, I finally flipped the switch yesterday. My new photography-focused website is now up to date and live at scottfillmer.xyz (xyz-as in "everything"). My entire online content library is now in one place. It has more than 50,000 images for you to flip through, and over 1,600 blog posts and pages. My .com site is now my main splash page, and my freelance business website has been moved off as well.

What is here now is a personal website, based around photography, written by a real person, with photos taken by a real human. As they say now, the mistakes are real, they're mine, not powered by AI. To me, I still think there is real value in content produced by an actual person, even if AI-content has surpassed human written content now.

Who Has an Ad-Free Website Today?

Plus, as a bonus, my website is still a completely ad-free experience! Deborah and I have always tried our best to intentionally create an experience that is ad-free. Those are the websites we like to read (if we can ever find them anymore), and I am a firm believer in producing something that you yourself would want to read or view. So this one remains ad-free!

Why Change Anything Now?

I went through a bit of the changes I was making to my website in my last post Bright Spring Colors Are Here. In case you missed that, I want to give my subscribers a quick update, because things will look different here.

One of the reasons for making such a big change was to create a new foundation for the next 20+ years. I also wanted a place where you could see new updates and have personal discussions, without having to log into a Wordpress account. And now you can.

If you received this in an email, you are already subscribed because you were subscribed to my old website. Now all you have to do to comment is click the login on the site and you'll receive an email with a link and that's it. If you aren't subscribed but want posts to arrive in your inbox, go here to subscribe with just your email address. Easy as that.

If you don't want any pesky emails, just unsubscribe below, or if you want to send me a private personal message (via email), just click reply on this email and it comes right back to me.

What is Coming Up Next?

Now that all of that is done, we get to the fun stuff. Deborah and I have been collecting a ton of new content to publish since the first of the year. This includes new updates on our travel website, Shanty Travelers, where we are working on our vanlife stuff, and our Iris Garden (DIG) is now putting out amazing blooms like I've never seen before.

Iris Blooms Everywhere!

We have about 60 different varieties blooming, or about to bloom, and the colors are just truly incredible. Here are two of the most recent blooms. Have you ever seen Iris Bulbs bloom in those colors before?

Auburn's A-Day Game

Of course it's Auburn in Spring, so the Auburn Tigers had their annual A-Day Game where they played each other. I actually really enjoyed going back to the traditional format this year, and I will have more photos of that game soon.

Gulf Shores to Dauphin Island

We also took a drive down to Gulf Shores and over to Dauphin Island recently. This was the first time we had taken Loki (our van) on a ferry ride (so fun), and the first time we had actually been to Dauphin Island. Spring Break season is probably not the best time to go down there for our tastes, but photos were taken. We spent one night in the van at the beach, and just one night smelling the ocean air is a glorious thing.

That's about it for this time. I hope you enjoy the new design and format. If you have any questions I would love to hear them. If this isn't your thing, I totally understand, the unsub button is right below this next photo! ⬇️ 🫡

I'm not hear to waste anyone's time, but I know there are more places on the Internet today to build community today than YouTube, so I am truly glad to have you right here at this point in time. Thank you. -Scott

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