DKwan.com redesigned

I’ve re­designed my web­site, DKwan.com. The home page is now mainly a por­tal to third party ser­vices that I use, like Flickr and Model Mayhem.

The logo has been changed slightly (I turned it 90 de­grees counter-​​clockwise, in case you couldn’t tell) so that it looks more like my ini­tials and less like Jolly Roger. The let­ter­ing has been changed from “DKWAN” to “d.kwan” be­cause many peo­ple have been read­ing “DKWAN” as “D-​​K-​​Wan”. And the full name is now D.Kwan Media to re­flect the fact that I do more than just photography.

The model in the back­ground is Gina Tran, who was Second Runner-​​up for last year’s Miss Vietnam USA com­pe­ti­tion, and is com­pet­ing later to­day in the Vietnamese Modeling Project. (Go Gina!)

The re­design is partly to make man­ag­ing my on­line pres­ence sim­pler, and to hope­fully change my rep­u­ta­tion as a club photo­grapher to some­thing bet­ter. It’s not that be­ing a club photo­grapher is bad. It’s just that, well, most club pho­tog­ra­phers are re­ally, re­ally bad! Absolutely hor­ri­ble at pho­tog­ra­phy! And I don’t want to be as­so­ci­ated with them.

So then what kind of photo­grapher am I? Hard to say. I do shoot wed­dings, but I wouldn’t call my­self a wed­ding photo­grapher. People’s im­pres­sion of what a wed­ding photo­grapher should be (jolly, friendly, tells you to say cheese) just isn’t me (dis­grun­tled, mean, tells you you look awkward).

Unfortunately I don’t have a niche. From now on, when peo­ple ask, I’m a free­lance artist (*cough*unemployed*cough*).