I'm excited to announce that I had three photos published in the Capture Arkansas coffee table book that was presented by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Over 32,000 photos were submitted for publication, 200 were published in the book.

I also won an award for my "Tucked Away" photo

Tucked Away, my prize winning photo: published in the Nature category.

The Senior Walk: published in the Institutions category.

Inquisitive: published in the Pets category.

This was such a fun contest. Along the way I met several great and talented photographers. I am truly honored to have met them. I continue to follow their work. They not only inspire me, but they are wonderful people that have gone out of their way to teach, encourage and share their love of photography.

bobshull.com gets a face lift and a complete overhaul.

Welcome to my new photography website and blog!

Finally after two years of talking about it I have finally forced myself to make the time and effort to re-develop my website.

Wow, I can finally breathe out a great sigh of relief and excitement!! This website has been a long overdue personal project for me. I've talked about doing this for a while now and it always seemed to be just out of reach with not enough time to devote to it. I must have started and stopped development a dozen times, not to mention scrapped many designs before finally deciding on this one. I think my biggest hang up was the design phase. I'm the type of person that works very well visually. And until I had the final vision of what this site was going to be I struggled with starting development.

The Old:

I developed my first photography site with one propose... a gallery to showcase my photography. While I liked the look and feel of the site, I soon realized that it was stale and didn't interact with my visitors at all. I displayed my photos and that was that.

The site was semi dynamic, but it was XML driven and had to be manually updated. This was OK at first, but I found myself getting lazy not updating as often as I should have.

The New:

I wanted a site that had a complete content manage solution, something exciting, something that brought user interaction and provided immediate feedback. I scoured the web looking for a "box" solution but found nothing that really fit my niche.
So what's a web developer to do?, stop being lazy and code it yourself! So that's just what I did.

What's new:

• Dynamic Blog Component
• Dynamic Photo Galleries
• Web Poll
• Latest content on Home Page
• Full RSS Feeds
• Allows commenting on photos and blog post
• Social Networking Sharing Component
• Full Content Management Solution

I've never really blogged before, and I debated building out this component, but at the end of the day, I think I'll really come to love this section.
I think that it will force me to think about photography more, and by writing about it, perhaps I'll even become a better photographer.

So, here it is... Let me know what you think!