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Welcome to the Sonialena Photography Blog!

Thanks for taking a moment to visit my blog!

This blog chronicles my adventures as a wedding and portrait photographer. I'm based in Southern California but will happily and gladly travel to other parts of the universe.

My blog is also a place for me to share some of the personal photography that I do, as well as sound off on various topics that are tangentially related to photography.

If you're inspired to write a comment or send an e-mail my way, I would love to hear from you!

Tag Archives: website

Website All Klabooey!

I’ve been having website issues for the past 24 or hours or so. It’s awful! None of my slideshows will load, and everything else seems to be on again, off again. Yesterday the company said everything will be online again soon – this was at 4:30 in the afternoon, after the server had been down...

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New Website Coming Soon!

I have been squirreled away working on my new website. The new blog colors are a sneak peak of the new website. The website won’t be super different – different colors, yes. But the layout is basically the same – slideshows of my work, and links to other slideshows showing different work.
I’ve ditched my much-loved...

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Blog Back To Normal

Apparently a little slash here and there makes a big difference with web programming. For other people in need of a nice WordPress theme for showing off their photos, the good people at NetRivet are super helpful and helped me get everything back to normal in a very short amount of time.

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Technical Difficulties

I don’t know what happened to my blog, but whatever happened has made my very unhappy! As I write this post, all of the formatting has disappeared from my blog. I’m looking at a plain white background, no banner, no logo, no colors. And all of the text and pictures in my posts are jammed...

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New Blog and New Website!

I’m very excited about my new website and new blog. I now have a custom-designed html site that makes use of Flash slideshows but is not an all Flash site. This probably doesn’t mean much to non-techy people – and a year ago I couldn’t have cared less about html vs. Flash sites – but...

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New Site Colors and Logo

I played around with the colors on my photography site and created a new logo. And no, my blog doesn’t match my website yet. One day I will take the plunge and get WordPress up and running, but I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it.
I am still working on redesigning my website so that...

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Site Design

As I continue to plow through my Project Blended website, struggling with every little detail, I’m finally beginning to understand why people hire professionals to do this kind of thing.
I know – duh.
The main reasons I keep going are that I just want to prove to myself I can do it, and I want something...

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The Murky World of Web Design

When I first came up with the idea of a mixed race portrait project, I had no idea that in a couple month’s time I would be puzzling my way through CSS, XHTML, XML, and Flash. I thought that I would go around taking pictures, dump them on my current website, and maybe design...

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Yet Another Logo

On to Project Blended logo number three . . . .
First is was the flower, then the rings. Now it’s these circle people. I made this illustration to use as the banner for my website, and I have to say, I’m really digging it. It looks exactly how I envisioned it. ...

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Ixnay on the Owerflay

I’ve decided to nix the flower in my Project Blended logo. It’s pretty, and it will always hold a special place in my heart as the first decent thing I was able to make in Illustrator. But it doesn’t really say anything about the project – if anything, I look at it and...

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