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PHOTOARTS TAMPA BAY PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
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NEW
SITE UPDATES
NEWS
01/07/230248 - Updated for 2023.
- UPDATED 01/07/23/0248
NEWS
08/05/16/0420 - Pioneering Photography
Processes in secret Development Program. - UPDATED
08/05/16/0420
BLOG
POST 08/05/16/0420 - Project
Paveway paves the way for fleet of marketing and support web sites.
- UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
QUICK UPDATE 08/03/16/0404
- Some
delays, but getting underway. Mosaic Class IOC. Last blog post information
outdated. - UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
We diverted a lot of money into acquiring more domain names, so the
LLC set up has been delayed. We also have to move our legal business
address, which will add to overhead; we will still be based in Riverview,
and will open an advanced photography and design studio, as well as
a photographic art gallery (we were the first in Tampa Bay to make a
business out of photograpic art; it is in our name, and the proof is
on our web sites throughout the years) in the near future. Riverview,
Florida needs a legitimate professional photography studio and photographers,
and we will set the standard.
This prototype Mosiac Class web site is scheduled to achieve Initial
Operation Capability, or IOC, this Fall, roughly four and a half years
after it launched as a Beta test site. At that time, the Aurora PhotoArts
.Com marketing and branding domain name, as well as the Tampa Looks
. Com marketing domain name, will switch from the old Venus Class site
over to this one, and this Mosaic Class site will then become the official
flagship marketing and support web site for Aurora PhotoArts. It will
have full operational capability in late 2016, around the time that
the production versions of the Mosaic Class web site begins mass production.
This original, prototype Mosaic Class site will not be upgraded to production
coded Mosaic Class site until well after the fleet is deployed (around
2018, as the fleet will be large), although it will look identical to
the production versions. Although the production versions of the Mosaic
Class web site look identical to this one, they will be over four, and,
eventually, five years more advanced under the hood (We will be upgrading
them to be responsive, mobile-friendly sites in 2017), with some new
technologies and tactics optimized for both contested and specialized
online environments (Due to some changes that a search engine has done
to the Internet, making it much more difficult for legitimate web sites
to place well in search results, we estimate that the Mosaic Class sites
will have around 70% of the projected performance that they would have
had had the fleet been deployed in 2011, back when it was designed.
50% is acceptable at this point, especially since it is not financially
cost-effective to get SSL certifications for the entire fleet, and we
are not going to do that. Had the fleet deployed in 2011, however, it
would have been crippled by some changes to the Internet in 2012, and
the sites would have been cut down to 20% of their projected performance
with that original code. We are thankful that we took our time).
The Venus Class sites will be left online until we replace them with
production versions of the Mosaic Class site.
The blog post made back on May 27 is already outdated, as we sat on
it until today, and did not post it until today. Even though it is outdated,
we decided to post it as-is, as some of the information is still relevant.
We will be updating that information with a new blog post, soon.
- UPDATED 08/03/16/0404
BLOG POST 05/27/16/0613
- This Summer, it is
full speed ahead. - UPDATED 08/03/16/0404
QUICK UPDATE 10/08/15/0533
- Aurora
PhotoArts business operations to go into high gear the remainder of
2015. - UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
After we do some reorganizing
under an LLC, Aurora PhotoArts, which will be a DBA under the new LLC,
will implement and work our advanced marketing, sales, and business
model, the same business model that we have been working on since 2008,
was ready in 2010, and which we have been sitting on the past five years
while we conducted business as usual, just as we have done since we
began offering services to the public in 2001. During the past five
years, we continued to work on what will be the photography business
of the future, further developing it, improving on it, and expanding
it.
Our web site strategy, which has served us well the past 15 years, is
an important part of this, and we are about to build and deploy more
marketing and support web sites than we have since we began working
on web sites in 1998, four years after Aurora PhotoArts was founded
on June 10, 1994.
Aurora PhotoArts has been the market leader in the Tampa Bay area for
modeling portfolio photography, modeling composite cards, talent headshot
photography, and talent headshots since 2001, despite the efforts of
others to attempt to compete with us in this area. Although modeling
portfolio photography and talent headshots will continue to be our main
focus, as we are optimized to service a professional market, Aurora
PhotoArts will not limit services to those markets.
Details of what we have been working on the past five years, how we
are going to do business, what markets we will service, and the support
infrastructure which we have engineered and put together are classified.
We can only say that we will have no parity in the market, that we will
be years ahead of any competition, and that it will be nearly impossible
for most to even approach competing with us.
With the construction and deployment of new web sites, expect a dramatic
increase in booked work this Fall.
By 2016, we will be well on our way to revolutionizing the photography
market in the Tampa Bay area, and will not only set new benchmarks and
maintain our leadership of the local market, we will increase our lead
as time goes on. This is our market; it has been, and will continue
to be. We do not just run a business. We run the entire market, and
God help anyone who attempts to compete with us.
QUICK UPDATE 10/08/15/0510
- Curtain
Works and the Phantom Shoots rebranded. - UPDATED
08/05/16/0420
Both our research
and development program and our photography testing and proving ground
events will have the same purpose, as previously described, but have
been rebranded so that they can work with the infrastructure provided
by the successor of Tampa Shootouts.
They have been rebranded for several months already, but we are announcing
it today. They are now known as ShimmerWorks and the Mirage Shoots experimental
photography events; each will have its own web site, and we already
have the domain names (we have more domain names now than most are aware
of; the two domain names in question will be ShimmerWorks.Com and MirageShoots.Com).
The Mirage event series will utilize infrastructure and technology support
from the successor of Tampa Shootouts, our photography event and workshop
business due to begin operations in 2016, a business which will be a
sustainable source of paid modeling jobs for professional models, part
of our modeling jobs program, and will force change in the market as
it will make everyone else pay models if they want any hope at all to
compete. The Mirage experimental photography events and the ShimmerWorks
research and development program will not be a part of the modeling
jobs program, and will not be a source of paid modeling jobs (we just
wanted to clarify that for those who think that they have figured out
where those jobs are coming from, so that they know that there is a
lot more out there which they can not currently see, and are not aware
of. The source of those modeling jobs will be the successor of Tampa
Shootouts, and our Mirage experimental photography events benefit from
all of the work that has gone into that event support infrastructure
and the formatting for the successor of Tampa Shootouts).
QUICK UPDATE 10/08/15/0407
- Changes
on the Internet required that we took some time to some research; we
have the luxury of taking our time, as the results will be worth it.
- UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
A certain search engine
changed the rules for which web sites would have the advantage, so we
took everything offline, as far as our web site development, construction,
and update programs, and took some extra time for some research. We
have made our web site designs more modular, flexible, and scalable.
We are also making some changes to the Mosaic Class web site design
before we mass produce the production versions of the web sites and
deploy a historic fleet.
Although our SES (Search Engine Superiority) technology is rather robust,
and we are sure that we could have deployed the fleet without any serious
repercussions from the changes, rules stipulate that we could not take
the risk with such a large fleet at stake. Thus, we have spent extra
time making sure that the site code and design can tolerate the changes.
Despite the several month delay, our plans will proceed, as already
outlined, soon, and deployment of the fleet of Mosaic Class marketing
and support web sites for Aurora PhotoArts will be complete in 2016.
Our “competition” will soon be very unhappy, as we will
assert ourselves within our market, which has been, and always will
be, the Tampa Bay area. No parity. We are the standard in photography
and design services for our market, especially as we were here first,
and our clients will benefit with the best in the market, especially
with our ongoing research and development program, the only one of its
kind for any photography company in the world, serving to increase our
lead.
NEWS 05/12/15/0919
- Rumors
of an additional 40 domain names procured. Mosaic Class fleet rumored
to be massive in size. Collage Class update. Spectacle Class stealth
web site.
- UPDATED
05/10/15/2215 - 05/12/15/0919
QUICK UPDATE 03/26/15/1010
- Aurora
PhotoArts makes stunning announcement with the largest acquisition of
domain names in company history. Rumors persist of over 30 domain names
invested in. - UPDATED
08/05/16/0420
On Wednesday, March
25, 2015, Aurora PhotoArts fast tracked the acquisition of its planned
domain names and invested in a large number of them in a single day.
Starter, “foundation” content is now being written, and
the initial web sites should be up by the end of this week.
Many of these text-only web sites will soon be replaced with operational,
and powerful, Mosaic Class web sites which will be built over them,
using established directories and files, as well as other appropriate
classes of web sites for the other domain properties and their projects
(Maverick Class web sites for the photography event web sites, which
are an upgraded version of the Pioneer Class sufficiently different
to justify the creation of a new class instead of being designated as
an upgrade of the Pioneer Class, as well as Collage Class web sites
for the second photography company sites, and other classes for other
domains).
Marketing and branding domain names and operating domain names were
also invested in for the second photography company, the professional
photography association, the modeling photography and photography event
business, and the modeling jobs program, as well as some more domain
names for some revolutionary projects.
Most of these domain names are classified, and we will not reveal what
they are.
Unlike most whom buy large amounts of domain names, we will be using
all of ours, although Passinault has indicated that, since he has demonstrated
a strong and long track record of being one of the best in coming up
with branding and domain names, that he will be getting into the business
of creating and selling domain names.
As of now, we have the best domain names relevant to photography and
modeling in the Tampa Bay area, and we will use all of them extremely
effectively. By 2016, swarms of our independent, but integrated, marketing
and support sites will be everywhere, and they will be impossible to
ignore. These sites will be easy to find for their relevant target markets,
but will be extremely difficult to detect and track for anyone else,
a form of selective SEO enabled by the tuned application of advanced
technology and tactics, such as web site stealth technology, and they
will not be connected to each other in any way. These technologies and
tactics are also legitimate, too, which means that the sites are highly
resistant to being shot down by being penalized, especially as each
web site has its own unique content.
Rumors persist of over 30 domain names being acquired, domain names
which we will use and which will not be for sale, but those rumors remain
unconfirmed, as the specifics, and the numbers, are classified. We can
only confirm that this was, by far, the largest acquisition of domain
name properties since we started doing this in 1998.
Our opponents can panic now, because their online marketing is going
to be overrun. Severely overrun.
QUICK UPDATE 03/24/15/1020
- Current
technology to be under wraps.
- UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
We have been ripped
off by aspiring competitors before, going back to before 2003, and conditions
are worse, now. Because the market is flooded with amateurs aspiring
to compete with us, countermeasures to being ripped off are now literally
built into every aspect of our business.
When they see what we will be achieving, a lot of them will try to study
our business and learn from it in an attempt to compete with us and
take some of our market share. Most of them will fail.
Back in 2008, as we continued to book work, as we had been doing for
seven years at that time, we began working on our next generation business
models. Our next generation business models were ready to be deployed
and used by 2010, but we continued development, and held off on using
any of the new technology until the economy improved.
We did not want to put years of work into what was to become the photography
and design company of the future (a company which is now decades ahead
of anything else out there, but which can be done now, cost-effectively
and efficiently, with current resources) and get ripped off by others
trying to learn from us, reverse-engineer our innovations, and copy
us, so we specifically engineered countermeasures to being studied and
copied into every aspect of a new business model which was ultimately
an integrated business, marketing, sales, and support model. We have
succeeded in creating a business which is highly resistant to being
studied, reverse-engineered, and copied, even by those whom will be
working closely with us. The key is to allow them to see the effect
of that business model, and not the cause; to be able to easily utilize
what we make available without having to know how it works or to be
able to see the intricate business machine under the hood which makes
it work.
That said, don’t think for a moment that we are going to be using
current technology and tactics in the field. If we do use such tactics
and technology, it will be in a tightly controlled and secure environment,
or in a sandbox situation where emergent results can be studied, and
where we can extrapolate, literally, future business environments, markets,
needs, and projected opponents; in sandbox studies, we will know the
future challenges before anyone else will. We also know the future because
we will be the ones creating it, and we do not run just a business,
but we run entire markets.
Although the fleet of Mosaic Class marketing and support sites for Aurora
PhotoArts will utilize new 2015 tactics and technology, all of that
will be invisible, and most will not even know what they are looking
at. For the most part, tactics, tools, and technology which we will
be using in the field will be a few years old, based upon what is proven,
from around 2010. We will keep our aces up our sleeves, as we have bought
ourselves plenty of slack in technology. That 2010 technology is still
decades ahead of anything else that is being used out there by our opponents.
The results of our efforts, which will be able to be seen, will start
an arms race in the market as others try to study our business and reverse-engineer
it. It is going to be interesting.
QUICK UPDATE 03/18/15/0958
- Image
Files. - UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
We will be going through
the studio archives this week to locate some missing image files from
shoots from, mainly, between 2005 and 2007. These files are on stacks
of CD ROMs, and they are in storage in the back (We will be using additional
computers to go through all of those CD’s. We will be making a
lot of backups, too, when these files are located. Not to worry, though,
as we will be implementing a new file organizational system this year
so that we will no longer have issues with missing files, although rules
put in place back in 2000/2001 will save us because it required us to
at least do two backups of every shoot, and to store those backups in
separate locations; the files are there, they just have to be found).
Aurora PhotoArts, which was founded in 1994 as a photography support
company for other Passinault projects, became a services company marketing
photography and design services to the public in 2000, mainly to the
professional modeling and talent markets, and our work is vast, now
going back 15 years for our professional, usable portfolio. We have
thousands and thousands of great photography from many years of solid
shoots, most of which were booked shoots with model and talent clients;
we are very proud of our pedigree, which cannot be ignored, and image
files from as far back as 2001 had the quality which ensures that they
are still used in our portfolio, today. Our images from over a decade
ago, quite literally, are legendary.
Obtaining these files will allow us to complete the image and graphics
sets for the Mosaic Class site program, and will clear the way to mass
production of a powerful, effective, and massive fleet of Mosaic Class
sites for the marketing and support of Aurora PhotoArts. With the Mosaic
Class, we not only have superior web sites with performance and effectiveness,
but we will also have large numbers of those sites, which is the best
of both worlds. By late 2015, and especially by next year, in 2016,
these sites will dominate, and we will be impossible to ignore.
The main thumbnail array to the upper right will change a lot when this
site goes completely operational in the coming weeks, as images there
now are mainly placeholders. Our portfolio is strong and vast, and we
look forward to putting some of the best photographs ever taken in the
Tampa Bay area on our web sites.
QUICK UPDATE 03/11/15/1057
- Spring
2015.
We are still working
on both Tampa Bay Film, which uses a Revolution Class site, and Frontier
Pop, which uses a Pioneer Class site. We are anticipating getting those
sites caught up this week.
Once those sites are up to speed, it will take at least one month for
us to get Aurora PhotoArts up to speed, although this is in reference
to our next generation business model, developed from what has been
proven over the years and further refined, as we have been working consistently
and have been booking shoots and other work since 2001 (and everyone
knows it, too). We need four main components in place to get the business,
marketing, and support engine that we have been building since 2008
operational, and it will take at least a month to get those components
into place. This does not includes the mass production of the production
versions of the Mosaic Class sites, which will all use the latest 2015
technologies “under the hood”, and will be much more advanced
than this first Mosaic Class site, which was designed in 2011 and was
built and deployed in 2012. The new Mosaic Class sites will also use
new technologies such as web site stealth technology, which this site
lacks, and will lack (and it is all legitimate, too. We will not use
anything which is against the rules in the SEO game and will not risk
getting the sites banned or penalized. The sites will also be original
stand-alone sites, will not be duplicated, and will not link to each
other). The new, production versions of the Mosaic Class web sites will
look like this one, but they will be completely different under the
hood, and much more effective.
We will need the following components to be in place, and it will be
sometime this Spring before we can make that happen:
1.
The first Mosaic Class site (this site) must be fully operational.
This will take about a week of work once all of the image and graphic
sets are available. We need to switch over the branding domain name
(AuroraPhotoArts.Com) and the marketing domain name (TampaLooks.Com)
over to this web site from the old Venus Class marketing and support
site, as all marketing tools use those domain names, and this site has
to be fully operational before that can happen, You can’t push
a site which is not complete. The old Venus Class sites are scheduled
to be replaced with shiny new Mosaic Class sites during the fleet deployment,
which should occur sometime before next year (all-new sites have priority,
as that will maximize the effectiveness of the fleet deployment and
enable the fleet to dominate much sooner).
2.
The Spectacle Class stealth web site must be deployed and operational.
This extremely advanced and secret web site has to be up and operational.
Why it has to be operational, and why it has to be a stealth web site,
is a secret. This site is much smaller than a Mosaic Class site, so
it won’t take long to build and deploy the one (or more. We are
not saying how many of these that we will build and deploy) that we
need. Unlike the production versions of Mosaic Class web sites, which
use selective applications of stealth technology to specifically shape
and sculpt search engine results as a part of our SES (Search Engine
Superiority) tactics and technologies, which were recently tested and
perfected with the Super Raptor Class web site for the Tampa Bay Film
online film festival (Don’t bother looking. We took it down because
we did not want it competing with the new Tampa Bay Film site, and wanted
to recycle some content), the Pioneer Class web site used for Frontier
Pop, and the new Revolution Class web site for Tampa Bay Film (We don’t
B.S. anyone and do not make claims unless we know that it works. This
is not hype, propaganda, or marketing hyperbole. It is real. It has
been tested, been proven, and has been refined over the span of several
years. We are very, very good at this), as well as with several other
web sites, the Spectacle Class web site is a full stealth web site,
designed to be used on the Internet without being detected, and without
any penalties if we ever wish to use the operating domain name for a
top search web site in the future.
Everyone will know that the SES technologies and tactics of the Mosaic
Class fleet works extremely well soon enough. As for the stealth sites,
well, that may not be as obvious.
3.
The Modeling Jobs Program web site.
How and why is classified, and we will not go into it. Period.
Let’s just say that we intend to fight modeling scams, specifically
modeling job scams. This is all legit, too; we are not a scam, and do
not use deceptive marketing tactics like others do. We will not advertise
jobs and then require the people whom respond to buy something.
Again, there is a reason that this site has to be up, and we are not
going to go into it. We are not in business to teach those whom aspire
to compete with us the business, or give them ideas, especially when
we are smarter.
We know that those whom aspire to compete with us study our sites, as
they wish to learn from the best; we were here first, too, and have
been doing it for years before they tried to get into the business.
We can say that this site is very important for our support of the successor
of Tampa Shootouts, and a modeling photography event and workshop business,
which is separate from Aurora PhotoArts, is in our future; we will make
it work, while others have failed. We have figured it out, and it is
years ahead of anything that anyone else has thought of. It can also
be done cost-effectively, and can be sustained, with current technology
and resources. Oh, and here is the important part: Models get paid for
working these events and workshops. This means that the people out there
whom do not pay models and whom exploit them as free labor, often in
the name of “charity”, will be forced to start paying models
if they wish to survive and have any chance of competing.
You are all welcome!
4.
Marketing tools.
Without going into specifics about what marketing tools are needed and
how they will be used, which is classified, we will say that our business
cards are outdated, as they were last printed in 2005 (although they
still work. To be honest, though, we get most of our business because
of our web sites and from word of mouth from our clients, which is why
our cards have lasted a decade. Why else would we be putting so much
work and effort into a fleet of new web sites?). We have spent several
years working on the next generation, and we are ready to proceed; the
new cards are good, and they should be, as we are a design company,
after all. We also wanted business cards which were “hardened”,
meaning that we could give them to those whom wish to compete with us
without risk. We even have cards designed to “show the flag”
and intimidate aspiring competitors, as well as eventual competitors,
as they are designed to be given to them. When most see what they are
up against, they will simply decline to show up and will give up. The
others? Well, they will be humbled, over and over and over again, and
will probably regret getting into this business and market. It is our
market, after all, and has been for 15 years.
In
other news, branding has been finalized for the Aurora PhotoArts research
and development program, formerly known as “Curtain Works”,
and the secret testing and proving “grounds” photography
event component of that program, formerly known as the “Phantom
Shootouts” and our “Area 51" for testing.
Each will be receiving their own web site. The new branding is much
better, and makes more sense, too, as both brands are now connected
in a relevant, as well as cool, way. This was reported on the old Tampa
Shootouts site a few days ago. Aurora PhotoArts is currently the only
photography company in the world with an ongoing research and development
program at the scale and the detail that we have. We will be investing
a lot into this program in the coming months and years, and it will
make Aurora PhotoArts one of the top photography companies in the world.
It will also, by default, make us impossible to compete with in the
Tampa Bay and Florida markets. As it should be.
In closing, there is evidence that aspiring competitors have been studying
our web sites and are now attempting to copy some of our ideas. The
execution has been lacking, however, due to the poor comprehension of
the mechanics behind what makes those ideas work (they are our ideas
and concepts, after all), as well as other missing details, so their
efforts are, in our opinion, little more than a weak 3rd rate, generic
knock off, or counterfeit, of our work. This, of course, is why security
countermeasures are engineered into every aspect of our business, and
why we are as secretive as we are.
One more thing. Construction and deployment of the massive fleet of
Mosaic Class marketing and support web sites for Aurora PhotoArts is
scheduled to begin this Spring, and well continue well into 2016 as
the sites are built and deployed at the rate of one every two weeks.
These sites will not be announced, and we will not reference or link
to them from this site. Thank you! There is evidence out there that
this is causing concern from those whom wish to compete with us, and
that concern is warranted, as this is our market. Aurora PhotoArts will
not merely be running the top photography and design business in the
Tampa Bay market, but rather the entire Tampa Bay photography and design
market itself; we will be running this market, and we will have the
support infrastructure and the resources to do it.
No parity. No competition. - UPDATED
08/05/16/0420
QUICK UPDATE 02/02/15/0906
- Delays
to Spring 2015. Mosaic Class fleet to be expanded to at least 32 web
sites. - UPDATED 08/05/16/0420
Due to work on Tampa
Bay Film and Frontier Pop causing delays, it will be Spring 2015, at
least, before everything is up to speed (reference the last
blog post for details). Also, the fleet of Mosaic
Class web sites will be expanded dramatically to at least 32 web sites.
Obviously, this will take our fleet deployment, which will consistently
stand at at least two per month being built and deployed, well into
2016 to get the numbers up to that full deployment. The fleet will be
fully operational by this Summer, however.
We plan on beginning deployment of the fleet of Mosaic Class web sites
this month (February. You will know when the deployment has begun because
this site will be completed and will become fully operational; among
the first of the fleet to be completed, although the others will be
more advanced, despite looking the same, as they will use 2015 technology
as opposed to the 2011/2012 technology which is used for the foundation
of this one. The new web sites will also employ the selective use of
stealth technology, which this one doesn’t. For security reasons,
we will not link to the new Mosaic Class sites in the fleet; you will
have to find them on their own, which may be difficult because you can
never be quite sure what you are looking at. We will also not identify
which specific markets that these sites are engineered for, and in what
numbers), as well as order and stock up on marketing tools, which include
“hardened” business cards which are optimized to be given
to aspiring competitors, and eventually, competitors; they are engineered
to “show the flag”, to intimidate them, and to discourage
them from even trying to compete.
A Spectacle Class stealth web site will be deployed in the coming weeks,
sometime this month. We do not want some people finding it.
The new site for the modeling jobs program will also be built and deployed
soon, and will probably use an Athena Class site like Independent Modeling
does. The web sites for the successor of Tampa Shootouts, the Curtain
Works research and development program, and the secret Phantom Shootouts
development photography events of what was Curtain Works will launch
soon, as well. More news will come soon. - 02/02/15/0926 - 02/02/15/0938
BLOG POST 12/28/14/0936
- Mosaic
Class schedule. Ramping up business operations. Curtain Works and Phantom
Shootouts to be rebranded. Drone update. - UPDATED
12/28/14/0936
QUICK UPDATE 12/28/14/0936
- Fleet
deployment should begin this month. Deployment schedule relaxed; should
take less than a year.
Due to delays, mainly
with Tampa Bay Film work, as well as work on Frontier Pop, we are still
waiting to begin deployment of the fleet of Mosaic Class marketing and
support web site for Aurora PhotoArts. The initial deployment will also
be slower because we have to build and deploy a Spectacle Class stealth
web site for Aurora PhotoArts to support an ongoing project (operational
security concerns require a stealth web site using a different design
than the Mosaic Class. The stealth web site will not be revealed online
nor linked to), as well as a web site for the modeling jobs program,
which will also be ongoing. Four next-generation talent and business
resource web sites for the Tampa Bay market also need to be built and
deployed.
Our deployment schedule for the fleet of Mosaic Class web sites will
take a little less than a year instead of 6 months. Considering that
the Mosaic Class web site has been in development since 2011, a deployment
schedule of just under a year is nothing; we will be rocking by the
Fall of 2015 with a massive fleet of large, effective web sites. We
will also be up to full speed and strength withing six months. Instead
of one per week, we are throttling back at 50% at the rate of one site
every two weeks so that we can build and maintain our other sites, as
one per week would tax our resources. We are also considering, at this
time, building two customized Mosaic Class sites for two professional
models (The main issue that we have is that we are not allowed to use
front line sites such as the Mosaic Class to link to the works of other
photographers, especially competitors. Using such advanced web sites
for model clients is also something that we are not too keen on for
a number of different reasons, as front line web sites are usually restricted
to exclusive use by us) Please see today’s
blog post for more.
QUICK UPDATE 11/11/14/1128
- Fleet
set to be deployed this month. Construction and deployment scheduled
to take six months.
The fleet of Mosaic
Class marketing and support web sites for Aurora PhotoArts should begin
deployment this month. Construction and deployment of the fleet of the
production version of the Mosaic Class web site, which will use the
strategic application of stealth technology for sculpted search results,
Search Engine Superiority (SES) technology, and the latest technologies
and tactics, will take around six months, and should be completed by
May 2015, at which time the fleet will be fully operational.
The fleet of Mosaic Class web sites will be powerful, effective, and
massive. They will prove to be impossible to compete with. They will
be everywhere, and despite their numbers, will be very difficult to
track.
Although the new sites will look like this one, under the hood the new
Mosaic Class web sites will use 2014/ 2015 technology, and no two web
sites will be alike. This web site which you are now on is a prototype
Mosaic Class web site which began development in 2011 and was launched
in 2012, and it is not nearly as advanced. It is built with 2012 technology,
and does not use any stealth technology at all, although it does use
an early version of SES technology. Obviously, this is the web site
that we want the competition to see. We will not link to the new Mosaic
Class web sites in our fleet from this web site, nor will we reveal
where these web site are or their target markets.
The first Mosaic Class web site should be fully operational later this
month, at which time our marketing domain names TampaLooks.Com and AuroraPhotoArts.Com
will switch from the old Venus Class site to this one. That old Venus
Class site will eventually be replaced with a new Mosaic Class site
under its operating domain name.
QUICK UPDATE 10/28/14/0947
- Next
Generation marketing and support site development underway. FOC in November.
The conceptual layout
for the upcoming 4th Generation Aurora Class marketing and support web
site, which will exclusively be used by Aurora PhotoArts and will first
supplement, and then replace, the fleet of Mosaic Class marketing and
support sites, is well underway. It’s said that the layout for
the Spectacle Class stealth web site was derived from an early plan
for the Aurora Class, and the Spectacle Class merely increased the size
of the thumbnails, for reasons that cannot be disclosed, and added a
cascading layout beneath the main one (The Spectacle Class stealth web
site is extremely classified, and will not be shown or acknowledged.
Additionally, the site/s will not acknowledge what they are, and although
we can reveal that at least one of these web sites will be built and
deployed in November using rapid prototyping fabrication techniques,
we cannot confirm if any others will be built, or what they will be
used for; remember that sites which are designed to be mass produced,
such as the Mosaic Class site which you are on now, can’t normally
be rapid prototyped, and have to go through a lengthy research and development
phase where all of the details are worked out and are perfected, as
the smallest mistake would be replicated among the entire line once
mass production commenced; fixing even the smallest mistake over a fleet
of web sites would be costly, so we have to get the design down before
we can begin mass production. This Mosaic Class site is an operational
prototype, and, as such, is only 50% as effective as the others will
be, as a lot has changed since the Mosaic Class web site began development
in 2011, it went online on May 6, 2012, and now (especially between
2012 and now). Although the Mosaic Class sites in the fleet will look
the same, they won’t be, and the production versions of the Class
will be very different from this one. The new Mosaic Class sites will
have all new technology “under the hood”, and will use the
strategic application of web site stealth technology to enhance their
Search Engine Superiority (SES) technology; they will be late 3rd Generation
web sites using an overall layout design from 2011 with technology from
2014/2015. This prototype Mosaic Class site will be brought up to speed
and optimized, but it will never be what the operational production
versions of the Mosaic Class web sites will be or as effective, especially
as this site was never designed with technology such as stealth technology
in mind (this prototype site does not use any kind of stealth technology).
We will not link to or identify the other Mosaic Class web sites in
the fleet, nor acknowledge how many of them that they are or what they
are being used for, although they will be all over the search engine
results for different terms in 2015.
The Aurora Class sites will be very different, too, using 4th Generation
web site technology utlizing flash graphics, multimedia, and built on
PHP databasing technology. As 4th Generation technology is still in
development, we are at the overall layout concept phase of development
right now. The Aurora Class site is designed to be first built and deployed
in 2017, after several 4th Generation prototype sites are built and
tested, and after a rigorous and detailed development process for the
Aurora Class site itself using the results of tests of those early sites.
Other front line 4th Generation sites, such as the Destiny Class and
the Centurion Class, will also benefit from these experiments and tests.
Mosaic Class sites, being late 3rd Generation web sites using proven
technologies such as CSS and HTML, are designed to be easily upgraded
to 4th Generation standards in the future. As such, even the current
ones are designed to be fully compatible with technology such as multimedia,
but not at the level that a true 4th Generation site such as the Aurora
Class is designed for.
In other news, Aurora PhotoArts and this site were supposed to be at
Full Operational Capacity (FOC) at the end of September, with October
being used to get up to speed, but we have been delayed due to other
projects and work, such as work on Tampa Bay Film. So, November will
be used to get everything online, with FOC obtained in November, and
we will be up to speed in December, just in time for the busy period
of January and early 2015.
Mass production and the deployment of the fleet of Mosaic Class sites
will begin in December, with the fleet fully deployed and operational
by mid 2015.
QUICK UPDATE 09/23/14/1004
- Rates
changing for photography services.
Our modeling portfolio
photography rates increased on September 1, 2014. We are now looking
at increasing our headshot photography rates by October 1, 2014, as
we can get those rates (we have kept our rates the same for the past
8 years, which was more than anyone could have hoped for, and we can
no longer sustain them. Although our bookings will dramatically increase,
which keep our rates low, the services that we now offer more than offset
the higher volumes, requiring an increase in rates). The rate increases
have been fair, retaining full value to our clients. Another change
in our rates may be in order by the end of the year, as we evaluate
our ongoing operations data, and that increase may be even larger, and
necessary due to the increase in the services that we offer our clients
now. Additionally, due to the increase in volume of the number of photography
sessions that we will be booking, headshot and modeling portfolio photography
sessions will, increasingly, be group sessions, a development which
is keeping our rates from doubling; we will not be able to afford to
do many one-on-one sessions in the future, and our bookings will be
at a level where such sessions would only be possible at much higher
rates, approaching commercial day rates. Clients booked into group session
will receive the same services that they would in a one-on-one session,
and there will actually be benefits from working in a group session
which would not be possible in a single session. Rate information is
considered to be confidential information, is only disclosed to actual
clients, and rates are only disclosed for relevant services being considered;
base rates of all services will never be disclosed, and we must be called
for rates. Rates may vary depending upon the terms and conditions of
the booking, are subject to change without notice, and are only guaranteed
once services are actually scheduled, booked, and retained with a binding
deposit and a service agreement, which lock in the terms and conditions
of a booked session. Aurora PhotoArts reserves the right to adjust rates
as we see fit, and we reserve the right to refuse to give out rate information
to any party which we feel is not serious about booking our services
as a client or is a party which we suspect may be a competitor shopping
us.
QUICK UPDATE 09/12/14/1633
- Full
Operational Capacity by the end of the month.
We are on track to
being at full operational capacity by the end of the month. It’s
time to emerge from our cocoon and get on with this. It’s time
to continue to set standards in the market and put photographers who
are trying to compete with us in their place.
As of Monday, September 15, 2014, 95% of our web site and support work
will focus on Aurora PhotoArts.
This site will be fully operational by the next week, and we will also
launch a brand new, “invisible” web site, a stealth web
site for an ongoing Aurora PhotoArts project. This new type of web site
is designed to be invisible to the search engines, and, yes, there is
a method to the madness, and a really good use for this site. We are
just not saying what it is (competitors and aspiring competitors reading
this with the hope of learning from us so that they can “compete”
with us can feel free to send us hate mail. You can keep learning from
photographers who like to teach because they also can’t compete
with us. Obviously, that won’t help you). We will also avoid showing
anyone the site or linking to it.
The fleet of Mosaic Class web sites will being production and deployment
by the end of the month. The web presence that Aurora PhotoArts will
have in 2015 will be overwhelming and dominant, putting us into a position
that we have been holding off from since 2008, when the economy crashed
and we sat back and studied what was going on in the market while still
booking work at a steady pace (We know more about what is going on in
the market right now than anyone else. We know who everyone is and what
they do, and this is why we know that we have no peers and that we are
years ahead of anyone else). We didn’t push it, though, because
we did not want to show our hand before the market was ready; we simply
did not try. In the past six years, we have been doing a lot of research
and development, and had many breakthroughs. We are now several generations
ahead of where we were in 2008, and at least a decade ahead of anyone
in the market, with countermeasures engineered into every aspect of
our business and marketing to make it extremely difficulty for others
to learn from us and copy us, as it has been our experience, since 2003,
that there are a lot of unethical and unprofessional photographers in
the market who steal from us because they cannot compete. With more
amateurs in the market than ever before cluttering it up, we are certainly
not going to allow them to loot us and steal from us so that they can
make what they claim to do into a business, as we are not in business
to train people who are trying to compete with us; we expect a lot of
these people to try to rip us off, just like they want to rip off their
customers, clients, models and talent.
Anyone attempting to compete with us will regret the attempt, because
we are their new nightmare, and we will take business from them. They
know it, too.
Oh, and then there is the fact that we now have a second photography
company, as well as a massive research and development program, the
only one of its kind for any photography company in the world, to increase
our lead. Many are about to find out what we have spent years working
on. That second photography company, which is engineered to prey upon
its competitors, will benefit from our resources and support.
We have no parity. Our lead in the market can be sustained, as well
as increased over time.
Welcome to our market.
QUICK UPDATE 08/29/14/1039
- September
will be a big month for Aurora PhotoArts.
As of September 1,
2014, Aurora PhotoArts and the fleet of Mosaic Class marketing and support
web sites will have priority. We will get this first Mosaic Class site
fully operational in early September, and then will begin mass production
and deployment of the fleet of upgraded production versions of the Mosaic
Class web sites.
We expect to have the first three Mosaic Class web sites operational
by the end of September, as well as a new Spectacle Class stealth web
site deployed. The stealth site is for the support of a secret Aurora
PhotoArts project, and we simply do not want it being seen on the search
engines. There is a method to the perceived madness, but we aren’t
telling. This secret program is the key to what will be our market dominance
in 2015, as it will be ongoing. All details are classified, so no further
information will be reported.
The second photography company branding and trademarks/ servicemarks
have been secured, with the first of a second fleet of starter sites
online already. The branding and site addresses are currently classified,
although they will be everywhere and extremely well known by 2015.
Tampa Shootouts is being rebranded, and the event properties will also
be adjusted for the new branding (Athena, Phantom, etc will be retained).
The key branding and logo from the second photography company will be
used for branding continuity of a network of related properties. The
Tampa Shootouts site, however, will remain online. The three support
sites for Tampa Shootouts will be decommissioned, which will only have
the drawback of leaving a gap in the lineage of Pioneer Class sites
deployed and operating.
What was formerly known as the Tampa Shootouts program will be upgraded
and used to support the modeling jobs program, as well as used for research
and development and to develop a portfolio for the second photography
company.
Our professional photography association branding may change, as well.
Work on Tampa Bay Film is wrapping up, as the site was actually unfinished
and required weeks of extra work. Updates on the web site starting next
week should be fast and easy, and maintenance extremely efficient. The
new Athena Class Florida Models site should be online sometime next
week, also. Although Aurora PhotoArts and the deployment of the fleet
of Mosaic Class web sites have priority, these others sites will not
be nearly as much work as projects such as Tampa Bay Film was, so they
can be done concurrently.
Class III hardened marketing cards for Aurora PhotoArts and other tools
will be completed in September, as well, in addition to new service
agreements and releases. The new Aurora PhotoArts uniforms and shirts
are coming this Fall, as well.
Class III marketing cards are designed to be used in hostile marketing
environments, to the extent that they actually designed to be given
to competitors to show the flag and discourage them from competing;
the cards are designed to intimidate, and do not show any trade secrets
or sensitive information, which is why they are considered to be “hardened”.
QUICK UPDATE 07/09/14/0833
- We are delaying
the schedule a week because of something urgent that we have to do.
On July 7, 2014, we finally solved the branding puzzle of our second
photography company and its interlaced companies, which all share the
same branding, which made a very complex trademark and domain name conundrum
which we have been working on for the past ten years (all the while
developing the business and marketing details, which means that we have
developed an advanced business model decades ahead of anything else
out there, but which can be done today with today’s resources;
we expect others to follow the lead of this new company and try to copy
it. We literally began working on this in 2004!). Officially, that day,
our new photography company and its sisters were founded. The next day,
working on designing a logo for a client with an independent film project,
which, ironically, was exactly what we were working on for an earlier
version of second photography company last year, we came up with the
perfect logo, and decided to use it as the main branding logo for all
of these companies still while allowing him to use it as production
art in his independent film (We retain all of the rights, and will be
using this logo for several related companies, the front-end company
being the photography company. We explained this to the filmmaker, which
is he cool with, since we own the logo, and the cool thing about all
of this is that it will give the branding a very interesting backstory
and legacy. That cool logo will be literally everywhere, and, design-wise,
it is right up there with the logos of Apple, Nike, and other top brands!
Just like with the Aurora PhotoArts “arc” logo).
Because the independent film is about to go into production, and the
cat will be let out of the proverbial bag, we can’t sit on this.
We have to move on it, now. Although we will not announce the branding
or link to the web sites once they are up, for a while at least, we
need to establish them before the independent film exposes any clues
as to what we have been working on in secret for so long. This means
that, although the sites will not be operational and we do not yet have
any pictures to support the portfolio of this new company, we need to
get the domain names and have starter web sites online with content,
and it needs to be done this week. Pictures can come later, and a portfolio
for this new photography company will begin development in the Fall.
The web sites for the new companies should be fully operational in early
2015, with full operations to be underway at that time. Currently, the
companies will have about 12 web sites, which will be a fleet smaller
than the fleet of Mosaic Class sites which Aurora PhotoArts will be
using. The new sites will use a different design class other than the
Mosaic Class, as well, a brand new design class of web site which, like
the Mosaic Class, will be a late 3rd Generation web site, but more advanced
than the Mosaic Class, as the web site design will be newer.
The new photography company will commence business in 2015, with its
sister companies offering business services soon after. At that time,
we expect several glamour and boudoir photographers to go out of business.
Due to conflicts in the business that Aurora PhotoArts does (and there
is no potential conflict about it; there is an actual conflict), we
have to have a second photography company. In the past, Aurora PhotoArts
has never been a threat to photographers and photography companies in
the Tampa Bay area doing glamour, boudoir, and other high-risk work
that can limit the marketability of models, because we do not do that
kind of work, and the risk undermines what we are trying to deliver
to our clients. We also have way too many parents booking us to do portfolios
and headshots for their kids, most of them teens, and are going to retain,
and expand upon, that business. Thus, our hands have been tied.
We have determined that we need to provide photography services for
professionals in the Tampa Bay area who work in high-risk markets which
are safer and more professional than what is out there now, especially
as we have been disgusted by what we have seen so-called photographers,
such as glamour photographers, doing (Alex and Jeff, among others).
Also, we must stress that we will NOT try to convince any model to anyone
trying to become a model to do this kind of work. We will only allow
them to book with the new company if they want that type of photography,
and if they are aware of the risks and the consequences to any modeling
career.
The three core starter sites will be online this week. The new photography
company will go after the high-risk photography market, which includes
glamour, boudoir, and “sexy” photography, all age-relevant
(18 and over, with extensive instruction on the marketing risks and
on how to reduce risks. We are going to be responsible about how we
conduct this) and will take market share from photographers working
these markets. It will set the new standard. The new company will share
equipment and technology with Aurora PhotoArts, and will have the full
might of our marketing firepower. Likewise, our research and development
program will directly benefit the new company, and the new company will
take over our high-risk shootout programs at Tampa Shootouts, such as
Allure.
The advantage that Aurora PhotoArts has in the Tampa Bay market will
be the advantage that this new company will have, and since the markets
are different, there are no conflicts, and although some of the photography,
such as fashion and swimsuit, will overlap (the new company will take
point in fashion and swimsuit, for reasons that we cannot disclose right
now, but which will be obvious soon. What we have engineered will be
a nightmare for anyone trying to compete with this new company, as they
will be outgunned and outclassed in every way. It will literally overwhelm
them, and most will choose to simply not compete). In some aspects,
this new company will have marketing and branding superior to that which
is used by Aurora PhotoArts, and that is saying something. The logo
is even better.
This said, Aurora PhotoArts will continue to be our main photography
company, and we are happy with what we are working with.
QUICK UPDATE 07/07/14/0520
- We intend to get
this site to full operational status, and prepare for the imminent mass
production of the enhanced production versions of the Mosaic Class sites,
this month, in July 2014. Our initial fleet should be online and operational
by the end of the year. That fleet will consist of at least 16 web sites.
These sites will be powerful, effective, and quite unstoppable, expanding
upon the original core and channel technology pioneered, but never implemented,
in our Venus Class marketing and support web sites. The Mosaic Class
sites also feature technology developed, deployed, and proven in sites
such as the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which dominated relevant
search results (Don’t bother looking for it. We shut it down,
and an upgraded version is now being built for the main Tampa Bay Film
site).
The issue with the delays has been other projects slowing us down. This
week, we have to update Tampa Bay Film, do some design work for a client,
complete and launch a few web sites (construction of these sites is
actually almost complete), launch a new Athena Class web site for Florida
Models, and update our core talent resource sites to support the new
sites. We have pushed back work on the resumption of publication of
Frontier Pop issues to free up resources for this.
We should have some content additions to this web site this week, as
well.
Next week, we will be working on support resources for Aurora PhotoArts,
which include design templates for the Mosaic Class sites, new contracts,
releases, paperwork, and marketing tools such as online ads which are
resistant to being reverse-engineered and copied (all aspects of our
business will have high levels of security to ensure that both we and
our clients have market dominance now, and in the future). Our new shirt
designs will also be completed; we have a primary two color polo shirt
with our logo embroidered on the left breast for our main official shirt,
this shirt sporting a collar. We also have a drop plate for suit blazer
pockets, and assorted T-Shirts with our logo silkscreened on them, with
some variants having “Photographer” or other titles on the
back.
This means that we should get this site fully operational the week of
July 20th, and that full production of the production versions of the
Mosaic Class web sites should begin in the first week of August, as
we have to deploy some additional support resources, including a new
Spectacle Class stealth web site for Aurora PhotoArts, in that last
week of July.
This is what is going on, we thank everyone for their patience, and
July is going to be a very busy month for us.
August will see the construction and deployment of the fleet of Mosaic
Class web sites, which will take months, as well as the resumption of
full business operations.
With resources available, our ongoing Curtain Works development program
and our Phantom shootouts, which will primarily be done at our remote
Shadow Land proving grounds, will be implemented this Fall, as will
the rollout of shootout events for Tampa Shootouts.
With six years of research and development of a new Aurora PhotoArts,
building upon our experience and the foundation of our legacy and brand
from the last 20 years, 14 of that offering professional services which
set standards and led the market, and our array of comprehensive and
effective support resources, the results of all of this work will obvious.
How obvious? We will be busier in the next year, and especially in 2015,
than we have in the past 14 years, and that work will force competitors
to reconsider the business that they are trying to do. We will lead,
and they shall follow, if they can. Some will simply give up, and it
will be good for the market, as the only photography and design company
that the Tampa Bay area needs is us.
We are on the threshold of a new era.
QUICK UPDATE 05/17/14/1649
- Aurora PhotoArts
will be investing a tremendous amount of time, money, and other resources
into our highly secret Curtain Works research and development program
and our Phantom Shootouts testing and proving ground events. At the
moment, we are the most cost-effective photography and design company
in Florida, and our services are an unbeatable value to our target markets,
our main market being models and talent, and that market continuing
to be our main one. The goal of our extensive and comprehensive research
and development program is to invest in the latest technology in equipment
and other tools, and to master their use, giving us expanded, and vastly
superior, capabilities, with cost-effectiveness and value still emphasized.
We will increase our lead, dramatically, over anyone aspiring to compete
with us, and will become a legend in the industry.
QUICK UPDATE 05/17/14/1600
- Just finished going
over our domain management and scheduling database, as it is finished
and updated for 2015 operations. The fleet of Mosaic Class sites for
Aurora PhotoArts should be up to 19 by October, with a core fleet of
16; at least 11 of those web sites using brand new operating domain
names (They do not exist at this time; the web sites will first be built,
and then the domain names will be bought on the day that they are launched
and deployed, ensuring that search engines will crawl huge, well-organized
web sites on day-one. This will give us a big advantage). The fleet
may be expanded to 24 Mosaic Class web sites by Spring 2015, all of
which will be new web sites using new operating domain names (These
numbers may or may not be accurate, as exact numbers may be classified;
we intend to make the opposition spend a lot of time finding and keeping
tabs on each web site, which is intentionally overwhelming. This main
web site will be done this month, and mass production begins in June;
the production web sites will be updated, with the latest technology,
and although they will look like this one, they will be much more advanced
and effective. Those web sites and their domain names will not be announced
or linked to from their sister sites). We are planning on dumping two
to three domain names this year, and will invest in and acquire over
51 new domain names over the next year, of which over 45 will be new
web sites, which include the web sites for our second photography company,
our fashion assets, the web sites for our event planning and production
companies, and next-generation talent resource sites; there will be
more web sites for Aurora PhotoArts than for anything else, however.
Domain name checks and trademark searches have all cleared, and it is
highly unlikely that any of these branding and operating domains, as
well as other properties, will be compromised before we have the chance
to acquire and implement them, as the database is highly secret, with
access limited to one person (Unless the opposition are mind readers.
We are much better at coming up with original slogans, branding, and
domain names than anyone else, as we are writers, also. This is why
others resort to trying to copy us, and why we do not respect them).
Some domain names that we will be acquiring which are not yet scheduled
will be for secret experimental web sites, including cutting-edge 4th
Generation web sites and advanced stealth and disruption sites. Anyone
attempting to compete with us can worry now, because they will not be
able to compete. It is as it should be.
OBSERVOR TIP 05/14/14/1202
- After many announcements
which proved to be false-starts and stalls, you will be able to tell
that the Mosaic Class sites are in full production when the thumbnail
array on the upper right on this site completely changes and this site
is fully operational. You will have to use this as an indicator because
we will not announce or link to the operating domain names of our Mosaic
Class web site fleet, because of security measures. Once in full production,
we plan on building and deploying a shiney new Mosaic Class site at
the rate of one per week for many months to come; we plan on having
an initial fleet of 16 Mosaic Class sites by the end of 2014, and more
than that have been ordered. Please click on the latest
news for more. -
UPDATED 05/14/14/1202
NEWS 05/14/14/0926
- Mosaic
Class production and deployment. Updated production version of the Mosaic
Class web site enhancements. Aurora Class next-generation web site development.
Misty Class operational stealth web site rapid-prototyped for 2014.
Professional photography association progress for the 2015 Tampa Bay
market. - UPDATED NEWS
05/14/14/0926
QUICK UPDATE 12/25/13
- After another set
of delays (we make no apologies, as the Mosaic Class site project is
complex, and everything needs to be perfect before mass production can
begin, as there are several thousand files which need to be created
which we are not going to go back and fix later if we do not have to;
we would rather spend that time building and deploying the fleet of
Mosaic Class web sites. Additionally, since this project is not for
a client, and it is for us, we can take as long as we need to, and we
will; it will be well worth the wait. The Mosaic Class web site program
has been in development since early 2011, which means that the development
will have taken almost three years by the time that the operational
fleet is built and deployed, a time table which is not indicative of
our usual development cycle for web sites, as we can design and build
effective web sites in days or weeks, depending upon the purpose, the
complexity, and the scale. Once the image and graphic sets are done,
and the format is finalized, these sites will be built and deployed
at a very fast rate.), we should have the image and the graphic sets
for the Mosaic Class web sites done by this weekend, at which time this
main site will become fully operational, and will become the official,
main marketing and support web site for Aurora PhotoArts, with marketing
domain name TampaLooks.Com routed to it, and marketing and branding
domain name AuroraPhotoArts.Com also routed to it; currently, those
domain names go to our old web site, a Venus Class site which has been
online for over five years, and which will be relaunched as a Mosaic
Class site by mid 2014. Once this site is operational, mass production
of the production version of the Mosaic Class web sites, which are more
advanced and refined, will begin, and the fleet will be built and deployed
at the rate of one Mosaic Class web site per week.
As of today, this means that we will have the first 3 Mosaic Class web
sites online and fully operational by the first week of January 2014,
8 online by the end of January 2014, and a fleet of 12 online and fully
operational by the end of February 2014. We have a planned fleet of
16 Mosaic Class web sites planned (which should be online and operational
in March), but this could go up to 24, especially with several of our
old web sites now on the list to be rebuilt as Mosaic Class web sites
(the old Venus Class web site which has been our main web site until
now, the original Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support web site from
2001 under Passinault.Com, currently a Venus Class web site, as well,
and Tampa Headshots, which is currently a Huey Class web site. If we
can figure out a relative centering code which is not browser dependent,
the Venus and Huey Class sites will be upgraded as the Venus 3 and the
Huey 2, and offered to our clients in the future, and we may even continue
to use the new Venus Class sites for other projects).
Once the fleet of Mosaic Class web sites for Aurora PhotoArts is operational
and at planned levels, most of the web sites will see few updates, and
our web site work will shift to other web sites, such as our talent
resource sites, new marketing and support for our sister companies,
and the development of advanced 4th generation web sites, such as the
Destiny Class, the Aurora Class, and the Centurion Class.
The upcoming Aurora Class web site will first supplement, and then replace,
the Mosaic Class web sites, although the Mosaic Class web sites have
a 10 year operational life span starting from when they were initially
operational (January 2014, which means that you will probably see Mosaic
Class web sites in use until 2024, at the very least, or longer), with
the late 3rd generation Mosaic Class web sites being designed to be
easily upgraded to true 4th generation web sites (although no where
near as advanced as the Aurora Class will be, even with those upgrades,
since the Aurora Class is engineered from the ground up to be a 4th
generation web site). The Aurora Class, which will be developed after
a series of experimental 4th generation prototype web sites are built
and tested, is scheduled to debut in the Fall of 2015, and it will have
a development cycle no where near as long as the Mosaic Class web site
has had (development of the Aurora Class will not begin until early
2015, so it’s a little over a year away, and development will
only take a few months, at the most). When the first Aurora Class web
site is built and deployed, it will become the new official main marketing
and support web site for Aurora PhotoArts, and this Mosaic Class web
site will become a secondary support web site (the fleet of Mosaic Class
web sites, regardless, will be maintained and supported, and all of
the Aurora Class web sites will make up a new main fleet, which means
that Aurora PhotoArts could have two fleets totaling over 48 marketing
and support web sites by the end of 2016.
For those who are wondering, 3rd generation web sites like this current
Mosaic Class web site use older, proven web site technology such as
CSS, HTML, and JPEG graphics, with some video support in the form of
embedded flash files. 3rd generation web sites are also compatible with
our web site stealth technology and our SES (Search Engine Superiority)
technology, which is an enhanced form of SEO. 3rd generation web sites
are mostly static HTML web sites. 4th generation web sites are entirely
different, and are a quantum leap above 3rd generation technology, although
4th generation sites use technology which is common on the Internet
today. 4th generation web sites are dynamic web sites built using PHP
databasing technology and flash graphics, and have contextual interfaces
and content. Unlike 3rd generation web sties, they also are also optimized
for multimedia content and a high level of user interaction. 4th generation
web sites will also use our next generation web site stealth technology,
as well as our next generation enhanced SEO which is known as SED, or
Search Engine Domination, which is more effective than the SES technology
currently used by late 3rd generation web sites such as this Mosaic
Class site.
QUICK UPDATE 12/06/13
- Should have the
image and graphics sets for the Mosaic Class sites done this weekend,
and at that time will bring this flagship site up to full operational
capability, switching the TampaLooks.Com marketing domain name and the
AuroraPhotoArts.Com branding domain name from the old Venus Class site
to this one, which will make this site the official main marketing and
support web site for Aurora PhotoArts. The production versions of the
Mosaic Class web sites will be even more advanced than this one, although
they will look the same, and will use new technology such as stealth
technology (Their operating domain names, which are their location on
the Internet, are classified), and this one will be the only one which
is revealed to the general public. Last week, on November 26, we updated
our Tampa Headshots marketing site, too, because it will not be replaced
with a new Mosaic Class site until well into 2014, after the other new
sites are built and deployed.
QUICK UPDATE 10/31/13
- Working on image
and graphic files for the Mosaic Class web sites. Aiming to get this
first, prototype, main site fully operational by November 2, 2013, at
which time our main branding domain name of AuroraPhotoArts.Com and
our main marketing domain name of TampaLooks.Com will switch from the
old main Venus Class Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support site (which
itself will be upgraded and replaced with a new Mosaic Class site in
2014) to this one, which will make this one, officially, on that day,
the main Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support web site. Production
versions of the Mosaic Class sites, which are more advanced than this
one (and will even include the application of new stealth technology),
and which will be launched in secret under classified operating domain
names, are scheduled to begin mass production next week, and will be
built and deployed at the rate of one per week for the rest of the year,
with each site launching with at least 30 pages of original content
spread out and organized among a web site of at least 60 pages; the
fleet should be up to 10 fully operational Mosaic Class web sites for
the marketing and support of Aurora PhotoArts by January 2014, and may
be up to 24 by the end of 2014. Once the image and graphic sets are
completed, mass production will be fast and efficient, as the Mosaic
Class sites were designed and optimized for mass production.
BLOG POST 10/26/13
- Project
Iceberg: Protecting the Intellectual Property and the Trade Secrets
of Aurora PhotoArts. - UPDATED 10/29/13
(Started on 10/12/13)
QUICK UPDATE 10/26/13
- Work critical to
the operations and support of Aurora PhotoArts will be the priority,
specifically with work on our Mosaic Class marketing and support web
sites for the next few months, and getting a large part of the fleet
online and operational by January 2014 (We have to break out of the
three year development slog that we have been mired in since 2010 by
November 2013, and get everything fully operational. We can't wait another
year or six months, as it has already been a year too long). This means
that new content, such as content for our blog, will be much less frequent
until early to mid 2014. That means enjoy our latest blog posts, such
as the Project Iceberg post above, which was
posted today; it will be the last for a while while we work on contracts
and critical site content.
QUICK UPDATE 10/26/13
- Passinault orders
90% of online and business work to shift to Aurora PhotoArts for at
least six months; this should get the Mosaic Class marketing and support
sites and the business programs out of development hell and operational.
Aurora PhotoArts to be main business focus of Passinault through 2015,
and all other businesses are on hold. Aurora PhotoArts affiliated and
sponsored programs, such as Tampa Shootouts, the talent resource sites,
and the modeling job program to receive a lot of resources my Q2 2014,
as they directly affect the business of Aurora PhotoArts and its modeling
and talent photography services.
QUICK UPDATE 10/26/13
- Second photography
company will have to be renamed because the branding is similar to the
branding of a national modeling scam. This is sad, because we already
finished the logo, and it had cleared trademark checks and domain checks.
With all of our attention focused on Aurora PhotoArts, however, and
the planned all-out assault on high-risk photography, such as glamour,
boudoir, and provocative modeling, in the Tampa Bay market in 2014,
which this second company would service, we can wait. Work on Aurora
PhotoArts and our other programs, such as our shootouts, may be in overdrive
well into 2015, because we have had so many business, marketing, and
service breakthroughs in the past two years that it will take us months
just to get a handle on them all, develop and deploy them as fully operational
assets, and refine them. There is not a single photographer or photography
company in the Tampa Bay area which comes close to us, or is able to
compete, and we can affect other markets indirectly at this point and
undermine them without directly competing. Our new security protocols
and built in countermeasures under our Project Iceberg program will
protect our trade secrets, resources, and assets, too, making sure that
we are years ahead of the competition in every area, and secret programs
such as Curtain Works and our Phantom Shootouts will further increase
our lead.
QUICK UPDATE 10/11/13
- Blog format needs
some adjustments, for sure. Working on that, as this, as the main Aurora
PhotoArts web site starting in a few days, will be the only Mosaic Class
web site for Aurora PhotoArts with a blog. Still working on those image
and graphics sets, so the thumbnails will be up and running soon.
BLOG POST 09/20/13
- Curtain
Works and Phantom Shootouts. Advanced technology to be developed.
- UPDATED 10/11/13
NEW SITE ADDITION
09/19/13 - Intellectual
property disclaimer added. This will be referenced
from all online portfolios, as well as other parts of the site. All
Future Mosaic Class sites from the line will heavily feature this disclaimer.
QUICK UPDATE 09/19/13
- Site disclaimer
updated.
NEWS 09/17/13
- Legacy
Venus Class site updated. Mosaic site work. Archive library coming.
- UPDATED 09/19/13
QUICK UPDATE 09/17/13
- News and Blog sections
upgraded.
QUICK UPDATE 09/04/13
- Will be working
on the site this weekend. Should have the image and graphic sets completed
for the Mosaic Class sites, which include this one, within a week. Once
this is done, mass production and deployment of the fleet of the Mosaic
Class sites will begin, with the first three this month, our web team
taking a short break to work on some other projects, and then the resumption
of production of the sites later this year. Much of the fleet will be
online and operational by January 2014, and by next Fall, the fleet
of at least 16 Mosiac Class sites for Aurora PhotoArts will dominate
the Tampa Bay market. In related news, the branding for our second photography
company was conceived of last Friday, August 30, and finalized on September
1, along with the logo. The second photography company, which will not
use Mosaic Class sites, will begin developing its portfolio through
our secret Phantom Shootouts program, and it will deploy a fleet of
at least 12 marketing and support sites in 2014. The integrated marketing,
lateral branding, and cross support for this company and its related
companies will be more advanced than what Aurora PhotoArts is using,
and will use, although the marketing technology, the web sites, and
all support resources are being developed by Aurora PhotoArts. The second
photography company will be going after the high-risk photography markets,
such as glamour, boudoir, lingerie, and bikini, with the objective of
being able to provide a professional, ethical, tasteful, and safer alternative
to what it plaguing the market now; this new company will go after the
business of glamour photographers in Tapa Bay and Florida, and either
force them to shape up, or run them out of business. The company will
also do fashion and commercial photography, and in those markets, there
will be overlap with the work of Aurora PhotoArts. The second photography
company will share branding, and will be interconnected with, other
companies and projects which are directly related, including a fashion
line, a modeling team, and runway modeling event productions with paying
jobs for professional models. See the August
2013 issue of Frontier Pop for more information
on all of this, including the overall plan for Aurora PhotoArts (well,
at least what can be revealed. A lot of the details and supporting resources
are classified). More will be revealed by Christmas.
NEWS 07/17/13
- Official
Aurora PhotoArts shirts and accessories are coming in 2014!
- UPDATED 09/15/13
UPDATE 07/17/13
- Update
Log. - UPDATED
07/17/13
UPDATE 07/13/13
- Espy
Model Tampa Bay Model Testing section updated.
- UPDATED 07/13/13
BLOG POST 07/13/13
- A
New Era Begins This Week. - UPDATED
07/13/13
BLOG POST 05/28/13
- Mosaic
Class Deployment To Begin. - UPDATED
07/13/13
QUICK UPDATE 05/16/13
- Still working on
the image and graphics sets (Had a setback last week when the templates
had to be re tooled). They should be done late this week, at which time
we can finally bring this first Mosaic Class site up to full operational
capability. This will pave the way for rapid, mass production of the
Mosaic Class site. The first three Mosaic Class sites will be online
with a month of that.
QUICK UPDATE 05/16/13
- Planning on adding
a lot of content from the old dedicated domain blogs of Aurora PhotoArts'
lead photographer and designer C. A. Passinault to his new blog on here.
The content will be from the Tampa Photography Blog, the Tampa Photographer
Blog, and the Tampa Designer Blog. Currently, all of these blogs have
been offline for a while. We are also planning on adding information
from the old Aurora PhotoArts news section as far back as the early
3rdGeneration Diana Class site which was online in 2005, which preceded
the Venus Class site which was online before this Mosaic Class site;
that is 8 to 9 years of history there.
QUICK UPDATE 01/21/13
- Major updates to
this first Mosaic Class photography and design marketing and support
web site for Aurora PhotoArts, which is a late 3rd Generation web site,
are scheduled to happen this week, and an additional two Mosaic Class
sites for Aurora PhotoArts addressing specific markets will be built
and deployed by next week (the operating domain names are classified,
and we will not link to them. Additionally unlike this main site, the
other Mosaic Class sites will employ stealth technology and pattern
shields). We've been waiting on picture/image/graphic file sets for
this work, and are now finishing up that work. This web site, however,
is the main, flagship site for Aurora PhotoArts (and will be at least
10 times larger than the others in the next year), with our branding
and marketing domain names diverted from our old Venus Class marketing
and support site to this one later this week. The old Venus Class site
will be decommissioned in 2014, which is a 6+ year run since it was
originally commissioned on July 31, 2007 (The Venus Class site is years
older than that, however; it is an early 3rd Generation web site which
was designed in 2005 and commissioned on September 16, 2005, which will
make the operational life of the Venus Class, once the last Venus Class
site is decommissioned in 2014, almost 9 years. The current Venus Class
site is a Venus 2). In other news, our first three 4th Generation web
site classes are in development, with the first one, the Destiny Class,
debuting and undergoing a shake down in 2013 (this will be a classified
test which is not publicized) and more being developed and deployed
in 2014. Check out our News
section for more.
QUICK UPDATE 11/17/12
- After 6 months
of work and delays, we are almost through 12 years of photography archives
and hundreds of thousands of images, which took much longer than planned,
and will be finishing the image and graphics sets for this Mosaic Class
web site early next week (the raw image files had to be compiled to
not only support the web site files, but other file formats for marketing
tools, headshot and comp card samples, portfolios, electronic portfolios
for iPads and tablets, business cards, and other marketing support formats;
we have 5,000 new business cards on order for next week alone for two
different business card designs. We will have a brand new portfolio
of photography and design work as soon as next year (our main portfolio
needs a format overhaul), however, and yet another portfolio generation
of even more advanced work by 2014, as we will not only completely replace
our photography (we are thinking about replacing our Canon cameras and
lenses with Nikon, and if we do, Aurora PhotoArts and our upcoming sister
photography company will officially use all-Nikon camera gear), photography
support, design, and computer equipment by 2013, but will obtain more
equipment which will dramatically increase our capabilities to the point
of revolutionizing our work and enable us to maintain the market standard
across the board. This, of course, will lead to our second photography
company, which will address issues with high-risk markets). Specs for
the sets were upgraded a few weeks ago, and will now be rendered at
a printable resolution of 300 PPI/DPI instead of the web-only original
specification and lower resolution of 72 PPI/DPI, which would not have
been possible had that work not been delayed (it was determined that
our new watermarking format technology and security precautions were
sufficient enough to allow a high resolution web site to be used). This
Mosaic Class site will have full initial operational capability (IOC)
by the end of next week, and once it is up to speed, we will switch
the AuroraPhotoArts.Com and the TampaLooks.Com branding and marketing
domain names from the old Aurora PhotoArts web site to this one, which
will then become the official main Aurora PhotoArts web site (the old
Aurora PhotoArts web site, a Venus Class site commissioned on July 31,
2007, will remain online until sometime in 2013 or 2014, depending upon
how long it takes for our targeted search engine performance objectives
to be obtained. The original one under Passinault.Com, which has been
online since 2000, will be taken offline by the end of 2012). With the
graphics and image sets completed, as they will be used for the other
sites, work on the other sister Mosaic Class web sites will proceed
rapidly; the second Aurora PhotoArts Mosaic Class marketing and support
web site is also expected online, with initial operational capability,
too, at the end of next week. A third will launch the following week,
with the first three sites launched and operational by the end of November
2012. There are 12 Aurora PhotoArts Mosaic Class marketing and support
web sites on order, with the other 9 web sites to be rapidly built and
deployed early in 2013. Within a year, all of these sites will be online
and operational, and most will not only have operational capability
(FOC) by then, but they will also have achieved search engine superiority
(SES), which is advanced SEO performance. Since this site is the main
one, it will be much larger than the others, as well; this site will
be at least 10 times as large as the others. The fleet of 12 Mosaic
Class Aurora PhotoArts marketing and support web sites, along with our
support web sites and our talent resource web sites, will give us marketing
and industry firepower which will ensure market domination of the photography,
design, and modeling markets in the Tampa Bay region. There is a lot
more going on, too, which contributed to the delays on this site, but
that work will never be talked about online or on any of our web sites,
as it is classified; let's just say that we have major advantages over
the competition, which include the investments that we have made into
support infrastructure in the past decade, and that those advantage
will prove to be impossible for anyone to compete against, regardless
of how saturated the market appears to be or the perception of the economy
is. We've figured everything out, while they have not, and that will
be obvious in the coming months and years; we will not only dominate
our competition, but that same advantage will translate well to our
clients.
BLOG POST 11/06/12
- Mosaic
Class Order Extended to 12; Planned Service Life Increased.
- UPDATED 11/06/12
QUICK UPDATE 09/21/12
- Almost done going
through photography image archives. Image and graphic sets for Mosaic
Class web sites will only take a day or two to complete after that.
Planning on having first 2 Mosaic Class Aurora PhotoArts web sites,
which includes this one, completely operational by the end of next week,
and the 3rd by the first week of October 2012.
QUICK UPDATE 09/13/12
- Fixed code glitch
on main page which caused Dreamweaver to choke by grafting new content
onto an archived page that was fresh. First 3 Aurora PhotoArts Mosaic
Class web sites to be up by the end of this month, after delays in going
through photographs and setting up graphic and image file sets; all
image files will be watermarked for Internet viewing, and will only
be at web resolutions. This site, the main Aurora PhotoArts site, will
be up by the middle of next week, around September 19, at which time
our two marketing domain names, TampaLooks.Com and AuroraPhotoArts.Com,
will be redirected to this operating domain and web site; social media
support and new Internet marketing ads will also be deployed linking
to this site. The second site will be online and operational around
September 22. The third will be online and operational by September
29. After shakedown period, remaining 7 Aurora PhotoArts Mosaic Class
web sites will resume deployment on November 6, 2012, and will deploy
at the rate of one per week. Although it had taken almost five months
of work to get this first site operational, now that the support files
are done, web sites can be built and deployed quickly. Initial 10 Aurora
PhotoArts web sites to be operational by the end of 2012, with the possibility
of an additional 6 on order in 2013.
BLOG POST 08/18/12
- Domain
Name Rotation. Mosaic Class Progress. - UPDATED
11/06/12
BLOG POST 08/10/12
- Fewer
Web Sites. Mosaic Class Work. Curtain Works. - UPDATED
09/21/12
NEWS 07/26/12
- Mosaic
Class Deployment. 4th Generation Web Site Development. Aurora Class
Site Development Announced. - UPDATED
08/10/12
07/25/12 - GOING
THROUGH SEVERAL HUNDRED-THOUSAND PICTURE FILES FROM 12 + YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHY WORK IS GOING TOO SLOW. ORGANIZED A TO Z, WE ARE JUST NOW
GETTING TO THE "F"'S, AND WE NOW HAVE A SELECTED FILE FOLDER
FOR OUR VARIOUS PORTFOLIOS WITH OVER 800 PICTURES IN IT (TO BE USED
AS SOURCE FILES FOR OUR VARIOUS PORTFOLIO FORMATS, WHICH INCUDE A DIGITAL
PORTFOLIO FOR THE IPAD, THE WEB SITES, AND A CONVENTIONAL PRINT PORTFOLIO
BOOK); WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED, AND WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN WORKING
ON THIS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, WITH AT LEAST 120,000 FILES REVIEWED SO FAR
(WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK OVER THE PAST DECADE, AND OUR PORTFOLIO
IS VAST, AS WELL AS EXCELLENT. WE ARE DISCOVERING USABLE PORTFOLIO IMAGES,
IMAGES THAT ARE RELEVANT IN OUR PORTFOLIO TODAY, FROM AS FAR BACK AS
2001). WE ARE NOW FAST-TRACKING THE PICTURE SELECTION PROCESS, TAKING
ONE DAY TO PICK OUR FAVORITE IMAGE FILES, SO THAT GRAPHIC AND IMAGE
SETS FOR THE MOSAIC CLASS SITES CAN BE DONE
WITHIN TWO DAYS (THESE SITES, INITIALLY, ONLY NEED 60 IMAGE AND GRAPHIC
SETS, AND WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH TO DO OVER 800), AS GOING THROUGH EVERYTHING
IS SLOWING DOWN SITE WORK, AS WELL AS MOST OF OUR BUSINESS PLANS. WE
WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS TO GO THROUGH THE REST OF OUR ARCHIVES WHILE
PROCEEDING WITH THE FABRICATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF AT LEAST 12
MOSAIC CLASS WEB SITES, WHICH ARE LIKE THIS ONE, AND
ARE FOR AURORA PHOTOARTS. OUR BUSINESS PROJECTS
WILL ALSO BE COMPLETELY UP TO SPEED BY AUGUST 2012,
WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO INVEST IN NEW TECHNOLOGY AND NEW EQUIPMENT. THIS
NEW EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE OUR SERVICES VASTLY SUPERIOR
TO ANYTHING ELSE IN THE TAMPA BAY MARKET, AS WELL AS FLORIDA, AND WILL
GIVE US NEW CAPABILITIES. WE ALSO NEED THESE RESOURCES FOR OUR SECOND
PHOTOGRAPHY COMPANY, WHICH WILL SERVICE DIFFERENT PHOTOGRAPHY MARKETS
IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA, SUCH AS HIGH-RISK TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY, AND,
BY DEFAULT, THIS MEANS THAT AURORA PHOTOARTS WILL ALSO BENEFIT
FROM THAT INVESTMENT, SINCE WE WILL USE THE SAME RESOURCES AND GEAR.
AURORA PHOTOARTS WILL HAVE A BRAND-NEW, ADVANCED PORTFOLIO
BY 2014, FEATURING SOME OF THE TOP MODELS AND TALENT IN FLORIDA,
WITH WORK THAT FAR EXCEEDS WHAT WE ARE SHOWING NOW (WE PROJECT THAT
WE WILL BE WORKING WITH AT LEAST 1,000 NEW CLIENTS,
MOST OF WHOM ARE MODELS, BY THE END OF 2013). OUR BEST
CLIENTS, AMONG THE CLIENTS WHO BOOK OUR SERVICES FROM NOW UNTIL THE
END OF 2013, WILL ALSO BE EXTENDED PORTFOLIO BOOSTERS, WHICH ARE ADDITIONAL
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SUPPORT SERVICES AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE, THROUGH SOME
OF OUR MODELING PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOTOUT EVENTS IN 2013, WHICH WILL USE
THE NEW EQUIPMENT AND WILL BENEFIT THEM WITH OUR ADVANCED CAPABILITIES).
WE WILL BE DEPLOYING THE FEATURED ONLINE PORTFOLIO FOR THIS SITE THIS
WEEK, AND ARE NOW WORKING ON SECTION HEADER IMAGES FOR EACH SITE SECTION.
WITH THE PICTURE SELECTION PROCESS GOOD ENOUGH FOR NOW, WE CAN NOW BUILD
AND DEPLOY WEB SITES QUICKLY; WE SHOULD HAVE 12 MOSAIC CLASS
AURORA PHOTOARTS WEB SITES UP IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, AND THESE
SITES, AMONG OTHERS, WILL ACHIEVE SES (SEARCH
ENGINE SUPERIORITY) BY SPRING
2013. ALSO, ON A SIDE NOTE, AND WITHOUT TAKING OUT THE TIME TO REWRITE
THESE UPDATES, THE UPDATES ARE A BIT HARD TO READ IN ALL-CAPS, SO STARTING
WITH THE NEXT UPDATE, WE WILL BE USING A NORMAL WRITING FORMAT. WE ARE
ALSO CONSIDERING MOVING THIS TO ITS OWN PAGE ON THIS WEB SITE. WE ARE
ALSO WORKING ON A NEW FORMAT FOR ORGANIZING FILES FROM OUR WORK.
07/12/12 - UPDATED
ALL SITE SECTION TEXT HEADERS SO THAT HEADERS CAN BE SEEN IN NORMAL,
UNEXPANDED BROWSER VIEW, WHICH WILL INSPIRE VISITORS TO SCROLL DOWN
TO READ CONTENT AND HELP TO MAKE USING THE SITE MORE INTUITIVE. WORKING
ON ONLINE PORTFOLIO.
07/10/12 - UPDATED
WEB DESIGN SECTION.
07/06/12 - UPDATED
WEB DESIGN SECTION.
NOW WORKING ON ONLINE PORTFOLIO IMAGES, TO BE ADDED IN NEXT
SITE UPDATE WITHIN 48 HOURS. THIS LATE-3RD GENERATION WEB SITE
HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO BE EASILY UPGRADED TO A 4TH GENERATION
SITE, WHICH MAY HAPPEN AS SOON AS 2013 AS A NEW 4TH GENERATION MOSAIC
CLASS SITE, ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOW WRITING THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR
5TH GENERATION WEB SITES, DUE IN 2014, AND WHICH WILL HAVE FULL SOCIAL
MEDIA, MOBILE MEDIA, AND EVENT INTEGRATION; THIS MOSAIC CLASS
WEB SITE MAY ONLY LAST FOR A FEW YEARS AT THIS RATE.
NEW CONTENT (SECTIONS)
07/05/12:
PHOTOGRAPHY
- DESIGN -
ART - WEB
DESIGN - SUPPORT
NEW CONTENT (SECTIONS)
06/28/12:
FEATURES
- TERMS OF USE
- DISCLAIMER
- WEB SITE UPDATE LOG
BLOG POST 07/05/12
- Aurora
PhotoArts Mosaic Class Site Progress. Second Photography Company Branding
Finalized. Video Shooting. Indie Filmmaking. Tampa Bay Film work. Swimsuit
Modeling Fashion Show. - UPDATED 07/06/12
BLOG POST 06/27/12
- Work
On Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography and Design Marketing And Support
Sites Underway. - UPDATED 07/04/12
BLOG POST 05/11/12
- New
Blog Will Replace My Dedicated Domain Blogs. Plans.
- UPDATED 06/27/12
MAIN
MARKETING AND SUPPORT WEB SITE. A MOSAIC CLASS SITE.
Welcome
to the official 2016 main marketing and support web site for Aurora
PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design, commissioned in the early morning
hours of Sunday, May 6, 2012, and brought online as soon as our new
operating domain was obtained. The site is a new Mosaic Class site,
and it is the first of many planned to be built and deployed in 2016.
This site, at the time of this writing, is over four years old and still
at the initial operational stage, and will take a few weeks to become
fully operational as site content is added, our portfolio core is brought
up to speed, and support sections are brought online. This will be a
process which is planned in three stages in roughly as many weeks; there
will be so many sections active on this site, that we cannot bring them
all online at once. This site will replace our current main site, a
site which is using the eleven year old Venus Class site, by the Fall
of 2016.
This site is going to be huge, even compared to our sister sites. We
are going to make this the largest photography and design site in the
Tampa Bay area, and we expect to have at least 1,200 pages of well-organized,
and easy to find, content by 2018, with lots more to be added regularly
even after that. A lot fo the content that we will be adding to the
site will be free information and resources for everyone, clients and
non-clients alike. We will also have resources and tools here exclusively
for our clients, and to support our clients, and our new client support
features that we will be rolling out are the most advanced in the United
States, having been developed from our experience in the past decade
working in the field. Aurora PhotoArts will become the busiest photography
and design company in the Tampa Bay area, and the updates and activity
on this web site will reflect a selected portion of what we do and how
we do it. We love what we do, and we are serious about what we do. What
we do is professional photography, design, and web design services.
We also offer other services, and although we specialize in services
for the professional talent market, this translates well to less-demanding,
and less-specific, consumer markets; although we are geared to work
professional market, and that is our specialty, we can step down to
the services that consumers need, if warranted, such as family portrait
photography, senior pictures, portrait photography, wedding photography,
and more. Ultimately, the consumer market will benefit from the advantage
that experience our professional services give us.
We certainly have experience, and unlike the competition, a pedigree
going back to 1994, when Aurora PhotoArts was founded due to a need.
Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography and Design was founded on June
10, 1994, as a photography support company for the production projects
of our sister companies, C. A. Passinault, and DJ Frontier. We served
in that capacity well for the following six years, although things began
to evolve four years into our life as a company; in those early years,
we did not offer services to the public, which was appropriate because
we were learning the business while building our skills through hard
work and experience. This would change, however. In 1998, owner C. A.
Passinault began developing web sites, and those sites needed a lot
of photography support and photographs. As a result, our photography
work dramatically increased. So did our design work. Over time, we gained
a lot of experience, and worked with better and more professional models
and talent. By 2000, we had some breakthroughs which propelled our photography
work to the upper levels of the Tampa Bay market, especially in modeling
portfolio photography. Subsequently, we finally began offering services
to the Tampa Bay market, and the market responded well to our services.
By 2002, we had some of our specialized talent photography services,
such as headshot photography, down to a science. Our headshot photography
services became sought after by professional actors and talent, and
so did our model testing and our modeling portfolio photography services.
In 2003, our Espy model testing program debuted, too, and it was popular
with aspiring models in the Tampa Bay area.
Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Bay Photography and Design offers model testing,
modeling portfolios, modeling photography, composite card design and
set up services, headshot photography for both the professional and
the talent markets, headshot setup services, commercial photography,
swimsuit modeling photography, event photography, wedding photography,
portrait photography, and other types of consumer photography such as
senior portraits.
The photography and design work of Aurora PhotoArts is guaranteed for
quality, so there is no risks involved. The entire point of investing
in what we can do in photography, design, and in web design work is
to give you appropriate and effective results. There has to be value
in what we do. We take our work seriously, and give our clients the
respect that they deserve by giving them services which will benefit
them in as many ways as possible. It is a privilege to work in our industry,
an industry which we have earned the right to work in with years of
hard work. Our experience benefits our clients.