NOTICE. THIS BLOG IS BEING CONTINUED IN A NEW PLACE, AT www.beckermanphoto.com/blog

Please UPDATE YOUR LINKS AND BOOKMARKS

AND HERE’S THE FEED FOR THE NEW BLOG

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BlackAndWhitePhotography-2

THANKS DAVE

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I’ve created a new photoblog within my own domain — it’s now here:  http://www.beckermanphoto.com/blog.  I am in process of trying to move the content of this blog into that one.

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Here’s the question in a nutshell and feel absolutely free to skip this if you don’t know and could care less about SEO. But it’s an interesting question to me, anyway.

The storefront is at www.beckermanphoto.com which is the domain I control. It runs in a VPS container, and I can pretty much do whatever I want with it including mess it up.

The blog you’re reading now is at wordpress.com, i.e. dbeckerman.wordpress.com  The only real downside to it is that you can’t add your widgets du jour, and the best you can do with themes is modify the css (for a price).

Now, WordPress.com allows you to setup a subdomain for the wordpress blog, so that it might be blog.beckermanphoto.com

They charge you for this, but not much.

So, if I created this subdomain, would google then count the incoming links to this blog as part of the www.beckermanphoto.com domain, which should increase the rank.  Would they actually crawl this blog as part of www.beckermanphoto.com?

Would that be a good thing?

Or, would it have no effect at all with search engines and continue to be treated separately.

Now you might say – well why not just put another wordpress installation on the storefront server?  And I could.  And once had it there.  But I had my troubles, which I could get over, when they were both on the same server in terms of oh, just stuff getting messed up because at the time I didn’t really know what I was doing with some of the linux stuff like the htaccess file and this and that which I probably know enough about now.

At any rate – what would you recommend as far as search engine optimization goes?  Leave it all as is?

Also, by creating a sub-domain, I could just keep working in this blog as I’m doing now, and it wouldn’t break links that are already pointing here.

I could do what I usually do – try it and see what happens.  But if anyone has advice – let me in on it because it is a complete mystery to me.

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Alright.  I’ll bite the bullet.  I’m installing latest version of WP for the blog on my storerfront server.  It’s actually a good idea because I can test WP upgrades first (such as 2.8 whatever) which I’m installing now before using it with my store themes.  I’ll import a bit of stuff from this blog, and then put up a notice to change your bookmarks to the new location.  I think I know enough now (fingers crossed) to be able to handle two installations on the same container.  But what it also means is that when this server goes down – so does the blog.  So while I was having all the issues with the store ISP over the last few weeks (fingers crossed it seems stable now) – you could still get to the blog.  Whatever.  Gotta do it.

Also infrared. I doubt whether the tower clock has ever been shot with infrared. It shows the wear and tear, and which parts are clean, which parts covered with New York grime. It’s hard to believe the detail in that clock. The face is formed with small mosaic tiles.  Beyond the black dot circle, sea creatures and vines and grapes and shells, and then the larger strange creatures that look like someone has had a bad acid trip. Those were the days of barons and old boys that could afford to put up cathedrals to business.

I was sent on a mission to photograph the New York Life Building. I couldn’t get inside because of the guards, and while I was outside the building I was also approached by two guards who wanted to know what I was up to.

Anyway, I got a few decent shots of it but I did better with some other nearby buildings. Used infrared for most of the shots but had both cameras around my neck, often getting tangled up. So I was shooting street shots one minute and architecture the next.

The top of the Flat Iron building appeared to me in a way I hadn’t seen before: almost like the prow of an ocean liner cutting through the sky.

Carriage horse, central park. More infrared flash experiments.

Infrared film with infrared flash at night.

Matt tests whether his Leica is waterproof.

The Kosher deli on second avenue is manned by Mexican workers.  I’ve been doing portraits of them when they come out for a break and sit on the stoop.

Another shot I forgot about that I just added to the store. Title is from the book by Arthur Koestler. Still going through scanned negatives… I’m almost done. Maybe another 100 to look at. There’s about 212 in the store right now. That might not sound like a lot, given the thousands of shots I’ve taken, but it is. I want to stop it at 250 images. After that it’s almost like a small stock agency specializing in NYC.

And I really wonder what this building once was. (From the Bronx side of the Willis Avenue Bridge). It has a fancy portico, and looks like it was an government office building once-upon-a-time. It is clear that there should be “no ball playing” but doesn’t say anything about tagging.

Leather in the water by the curb after the big rain. Of course it never did look like that to the naked eye.  It’s just the result of a very very fast shutter speed.  I don’t know about you but I don’t see at 1/4000th of a second.