I’m really pleased to announce we have completely overhauled our web site and are soft launching it now. An email blast will go out in a day or so after we are sure all the obvious bugs are solved. I was very happy to work with liveBooks on this using their new custom service. They were incredibly helpful and creative problem solvers as we worked out how to fit a large amount of work into a simple interface.
Please have a look and let me know what you think: Doug Menuez
I’ve sampled your work before but haven’t spent quality time until viewing your new website.
I just love how you can shoot in a documentary style with little to no lighting for high-end advertising. The recent Emirates Airline campaign is brilliant! You give me hope in photography once more.
Are you teaching anywhere?
We all gotta have hope! Natural light is the thing for me, or available gloom, as may be the case. I am all about source lighting right now. So glad you like the work.
YES: I am teaching a workshop called Art vs. Commerce at Center for Photography Woodstock, NY, August 22/23: http://www.cpw.org/WPW/2009/pages/August.html A Weekend where we break down your work into what is most central and core to your vision, then we learn basic and advance business structure to support that passion. Get paid to shoot what you love to shoot is the idea. Not so easy, but this workshop is a good step toward harmonizing those competing needs. I also will be teaching a long version of this in Santa Fe next March.
Hi Doug. Great site. Very dynamic and the images really pop nicely. Was your site built by livebooks?
Thanks,
Kevin
Hi, yes liveBooks did an amazing job synthesizing all my various projects into a cohesive total. Done as a “custom” site which is a new service they offer. You can use their templates or adapte and modify them and add other features. Very cool.
Great design and beautiful work! There is a lot to enjoy…very much liked Infinite City and Vietman.
FYI…couldn’t get past the copyright page on firefox 3.5.1 on a mac. “Agreed” is a dead link, but it works fine on safari.
Ken, so glad to get your positive words. We just found out about some new bugs with Explorer but Firefox was supposedly locked. Clear your browser perhaps and try later. But I will report this as a bug and try to replicate. Thx!
Love love love your work. With that being said, i think the viewer has to go through too many hoops to see the amazing work. It feels like you are trying to do too much with one home page. I’m not sure if its the navigation bars or the layout, because i have seen other sites with multiple pages that are far easier to get around. Your main portfolio v.9 is so strong and it occupies so little importance amongst the other sections. If the art buyer doesn’t get you from that port, none of the other sections will interest them. I liked the other version better. And I still come to your site on a regular basis for inspiration and serenity. Your blog is amazing reading as well.
Glenn, appreciate the constructive feedback. We are finding some bugs now as well as issues around user preferences. I think the V.9 may need to be one of the rotating slides on launch, but we are waiting to get more feedback before tweaking. Send me a url of something you like so I can see what you mean about multiple pages. One issue related to where V.9 is on the site is showing he V.9 in spreads which you can’t do in a standard “gallery” so we take you to a pop up, which is not ideal, but so far no big issues.
Hi Doug,
your photos are just incredible and I like the layout…
Finding it really slow though (maybe beacuse I’m in Australia?) takes all of 10 to 12 seconds for the initial page to load after clicking on “Agreed”, the thumbnails take a while to show as well…
Good to know, we are working on this with liveBooks. We hate slow! Pretty fast here so not sure what is causing this…
Great website and photography, Doug. A perfect synthesis of your works really well presented. I can just tell you that, at least from Italy, it is not that fast and that, often, when you select the red arrow after the project statement, nothing happens…
Massimo
So glad to hear you like it. I’m working with livebooks to address the slowness you describe. We don’t see it here or across the US so possibly some server issue in Europe… ack! Appreciate the heads up, grazie tanto
Late to to party by must say, loved the work.
Site is great with a lot to see but well designed for navigation
I’m familiar with livebook sites but have not seen one with so much content – good for you and good job livebooks. The work is what gets me though man. the new Dubia stuff is sick,
simply wonderful design and storytelling. I love the essense of it a quality that threads through your other work. I’m inspired, so once again, thank you.
So glad to hear it!