Welcome to the new site

First and foremost before I begin this post, I would like to welcome everyone to my newly designed site sitting in a new home. After much deliberation (and many theme changes), my blog underwent multiple theme change and multiple add-ons in the form of widgets as well as other funky adds. I decided that it wasn’t the right move to do hence I have switched over to a single column theme. I cleaned up quite a fair bit of unused applications on my blog in hope that the design looks a lot cleaner and easier to navigate.

Secondly, as I mentioned, this site is completely new. How does it translate to new? My domain name (http://markleo.net) has been moved to a new registrar, my files has been moved to a new server and I gotten a new theme to suit it as well as made multiple changes to the design (a big thanks to @theBackPackr for your help!).

 Welcome to the new site

After reading Dane Sander’s “The Fast Track Photographer“, I was truly inspired by what he wrote about the various types of photographers. It was then that I knew where I wanted to be and to brand myself in that direction. This blog update is one of the first changes I am making and hopefully, you will see more of those changes in my shooting style as well.

Of course with this new site design, I will start to concentrate more on posting up more photos from various shoots and experience especially weddings and portraits. I am also quite glad that I can post up large sized images as well. I definitely need to update my Photoshop actions to suit the new changes.

I previously used to have multiple pages but have decided to limit myself to two pages, My Portfolio and About Myself. At this moment, my portfolio will be the next item on my to-do list to update and hopefully be completed by the end of July. Exciting times ahead and I can’t wait to be able to share it with my readers.

Do drop me a line or two with your thoughts and comments on this new site. I would love to gather some feedback in order for me to improve it as much as I can.

A little something about Mark Leo

Was over Jenny’s and Zach’s blog and I decided that I wanted to take this questionnaire as well and perhaps reveal a little bit something more about myself.

1. Four jobs/career aspirations I have had:

  • Process engineer (at Motorola during my engineering internship days)
  • R&D Engineer (at JVC designing video camcorders)
  • SAP Consultant (on the technical side of things which is rather boring for some people icon razz A little something about Mark Leo )
  • Freelance photographer (yay! I love to shoot weddings!)

* Sounds like I have very boring jobs beforehand and yes, they were boring

2. Four things I wish I had done earlier:

  • Learned photography earlier so I could have taken more photos during my days in the UK/Europe area
  • Took exams for my guitar classes
  • Taken a motorbike license
  • Studied economics and finance

3. Four places I have been (listing my favourite places):

  • Czech Republic
  • England
  • Australia
  • Phuket, Thailand

4. Four countries I would like to visit :

  • New York, USA
  • South Africa
  • Brazil
  • New Zealand

* If ever I get to go to these countries, I would have been to all of the continents in the world!

5. Four of my favorite dishes/snacks:

  • Chicken rice
  • Pizza (not the rubbish we get from Domino’s or Pizza Hut)
  • Carbonara Pasta
  • Roasted pork knuckles

6. Four of fav. desserts :

  • McDonald’s Banana pie
  • Banana chocolate smoothies
  • Peanut butter smoothies
  • Chocolate strawberry ice-cream

7. Four sites I visit daily:

  • Gmail
  • Facebook
  • Blogs (photographers and friends mostly)
  • TheStar.com.my

p.s. I actually visit a lot of sites, so much that I rely on Foxmarks for all my URL bookmarking needs. I have two accounts, one for work and for personal. Both have different sets of URLs icon biggrin A little something about Mark Leo

8. Four software applications I cannot live without:

  • Firefox 3 (daily surfing and email)
  • Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (mainly for my photo editing)
  • µTorrent (for all my *ahem* *ahem* needs)
  • Microsoft Excel (mainly for work and church stuff)

9. Four favourite drinks

  • Diet coke/Coke Light
  • Ice Lemon Tea
  • White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks
  • Czech beer

10. Four things you may not know about me:

  • I am a very shy person! (At work I am a totally different person though, confident enough to speak to a crowd of 100 and above at meetings with no problems but when meeting new people, a little shy sometimes)
  • I like to read Archie comics and Asterix comics (I got all of the Asterix comic collection and about 120+ Archie comic books. GIve me a buzz if you want to borrow some of them)
  • I still play the guitar, bass and a teeeny bit of drums (Although I sold my electric guitar to fund for my Nikon D200, I still have my acoustic guitar at home to play once in a while)
  • I am in need of a confidence boost most of the time (I am usually very worried and nervous before any of my photography assignment)

So for all of those who are reading this post, I am tagging you to blog about yourself as well. Don’t forget to link back to my site as well icon smile A little something about Mark Leo

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