Stephanie Beach Photography Version 2.1

This past Monday was supposed to be Motivation Monday, but as you can plainly see, I forgot to post something for it. Instead I spent the day revamping the blog and giving it a whole new look. My apologies for those of you who were looking forward to a post. But look at how pretty the new template is!

Last week I opened up this blog and realized I just didn't like the old template anymore - it really bothered me. It was a basic Blogger template and I found it to be both boring and way too colourful. I feel that a photography blog should be rather neutral in colour so that the photos (and how they are viewed by you) are not influenced by the surrounding colours of the blog. I hope that this new template enables freedom from influencing colours. I found the new template at ourblogtemplates.com which offers a ton of really great templates. You merely download the one you like and install it. After a tiny bit of coding to personalize it, you are good to go.

This new template also gave me the motivation to finally make myself a personalized header. The header used here is part of a photograph taken at the Montreal Botanical Gardens (and Insectarium). I cropped it, desaturated it almost completely (there is still some colour in there) and then obviously had to resize it appropriately. I am really happy with how it came out.