Massive shoutout for FOSS rebooting my career.
Just put my new site up, and a physical exhibition today, and had my first 'reboot-shoot' with a client, all in the space of a week. I'm also sick with flu and toothache and have a very small human living with me. For context. Go me...
I would not have done it without free and open source software.
And I'm fuckin chuffed.
I owe these thanks to projects and people, for giving me hope and capability that I would not have had otherwise:
Privacy advocates on youtube - tipping me over to linux.
Pixls.us - community photography forum for FOSS.
Geeqie - picture sorting, done.
Rawtherapee - Raw processor and way more. Better than Adobe.
GIMP - Too good. My desert island software. Come at me and my clients in the comments if you don't like the menu structure and default keyboard shortcuts.
Hugo - static site generator, but use a custom theme and then get confused about how it works, learn it properly but then hire a Hugo developer who will be cool, because Hugo is FOSS.
Things are going really well so far. People are booking me/making a plan to book me. I'm working with integrity and have hope that I can take care of my family with this.
Got loads of hope and positivity.
My site is jpicture.net if you want to have a look. Content is going to get updated, soon, but I had to publish it today to coincide with other things (like the exhibition) going on today.
Peace
P.S If anyone has questions, please ask - I'll reply over the next few days.
PPS my creative stuff is at https://pixelfed.social/Eliptic