Sunsetting My Website

Midday Carytown

No…not this one, the other one! For more than 20 years I maintained a website, first with www.toomagic.com which morphed into “www dot leehalvorsenphotography dot com” in 2017. The site was a hungry beast, always wanting more, never sleeping, never taking a break. I made social and political comments on the blog, losing friends and receiving hate mail. I fed the beast images and stories by going out often, usually every day if even for only a few minutes. I sold a few images, a few sessions, but just a few and I admit, I wasn’t trying very hard. My impression is to be successful with social media I had to invest several hours each day. That’s not me.

But I kept the site because it was hard to let go…a great deal of my creative energy was in the images and the writings. And, a lot of my life was described and photographed on the site. Our three kids grew up in the sites. Diane’s cancer was front page…Diane’s cancer-free diagnosis was banner headlines. A family history. An art journey. I enjoyed the creative process and the family was patient and inspirational. All of the children are quite tolerant of my constant camera. I think.

I’ve always felt the site’s name, Lee Halvorsen Photography, was a bit limiting, I’ve never had photography as my single artistic output so the name wasn’t as descriptive as I wanted. I’ve stayed the course, though, paying my annual bill but without content updates in quite a while (except for Sandy’s book). The web host will turn off the electrons sometime tomorrow night and that will be the end.

This site will go on, perhaps now with more focus since I won’t have to feel the guilt of abandoning my “showcase” website. Ah, the humanity.

Below is a screen capture of the front page…for posterity’s sake. At least until this site also fades away.