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HOW THIS SITE IS ORGANIZED

The links on the left side of each page (and also toward the bottom of each page) take you to the major site sections. To look at photographs, go to the Gallery (which is in its early stages), or go to one of the topical areas like Nature or Travel.

To learn more about photography, go to Tips, Learn Digital, and People. Digital should really be a subsection of Tips but it has grown to become a major section on its own. Links will take you to other sites.

Family is posted for my family and friends.

You can Search This Site with Google's search engine
 

HOW THIS SITE (AND OTHERS)
CAME TO BE

Family, friends, and my photography students had been asking me to put up a web site to show some of my photos and post some of my photography articles.

A little incident with broken ribs and the resulting limitations on my travel gave me the time to put up a simple website.  (Thanks go to Kim for the broken ribs!)  I didn't know anything about HTML or how to put up a web site, but I discovered Angelfire which made it simple, and launched my first web site and I posted photos of family and friends. I also learned a little HTML.

My students at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts asked me to add photo lessons to my site, so I added "how to" pages,  plus travel, landscape, nature, closeup and digital photography.  You can find all of this at  Jim's Photo Page, launched in November 1999.

One thing leads to another.  I helped some friends create some simple sites.

I discovered Net Objects Fusion (NOF), which is  great software for web publishing.  This made developing a web site much easier and faster.  Using NOF, in one evening my son Jared and I put together a simple informational site for campground near Marcellus, Michigan. This site began in April 2000.

In late 1999 I reserved the domain name JimDoty.com. On December 17, 1999 I put up a one page marker site with links to the other web sites mentioned above.  I added 2 pages to this site in May and a few more pages in mid-June.  Finally, on June 25-26, 2000, I divided this site into sections and added 30 pages. I consider June 25 the official launch date of this site.

JimDoty.com is now my primary photography site with access to the other web sites. Come back to any of these sites any time!
 

PRINTS FOR PURCHASE AND
 IMAGES FOR PUBLICATION

Some of the images on this site are now available for purchase as fine art prints.  Some images are also available as digital files for publication at standard rates.
 

HELP SUPPORT THIS SITE

If you shop at Amazon.com, you can support this site by coming here and clicking on one of the Amazon links at the bottom of each page. If you buy something at Amazon.com after linking from my site, they give me a credit toward the cost of maintaining this site. It doesn't cost you any more, but it does help this site. Amazon.com sells books, photography equipment (mostly point and shoot), computers, music, toys, games, electronic items, kitchen items, and more. You can learn more about Amazon.com by going here. More ways to support this site are listed here.  Thanks.

AMAZON.COM GOODIES

I have selected some items from Amazon.com which you can look at on this page. These include books, videos, DVDs, Microsoft XP software upgrades, Handspring Visors, and some current best-selling art and photography books selected by Amazon.com.

MY OTHER WEB SITES

More of my web sites are here .

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Created May 6, 2000
Updated July 16, 2007

 

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