Welcome to the new leahjohnston.com!

So pleased to finally have a new website up for you to feast your eyes upon! My previous design…which I loved for a long time, and still continue to receive lots of compliments on…has been out of date for a while now, both in terms of design and content. I had designed it back in 2008 (before I had adventured into the wonderful world of photography and the likes), so the design had been intended to showcase merely a single headshot and a short blurb on one page all the while creating some nice interaction and hopefully showing viewers a bit of my personality.

However, as I delved deeper into my photography, it became clear that people were no longer simply visiting my website to see my headshots and that my photography should play a larger role in the general layout. This was pretty much impossible in the old design, mostly due to all the busy flashiness of it all. No longer did I need a DESIGN to showcase who I was…I needed something cleaner and more subdued so my photos could do the talking.

I think this new website does just that. I’ve given it a clean black background so all the photos preview nicely on it, as well as a more modern touch for easier browsing.

Additionally, you’ll notice this new website now plays on mobile devices such as iPads & iPhones. Sadly, apple has taken away our ability to interact with flash websites on their devices, so our websites have had to adapt. So while I do miss my flash, I’m happy that this website is now much more accessible to people and I’ll add, much easier to update.

This new design also gives new life to my blog which has been languishing in the peripheral of my online presence for some time. You’ll see that the blog is now integrated with the main page, and includes the news, latest flickr posts as well as behind the scenes videos and essays. So everything can now be found in one place and you don’t have to search for it. I hope to be updating it with news and photos much more frequently now that it is properly integrated into the site.

Anyways, I hope you like the new design. Please feel free to browse around and tell me what you think! Feedback is much appreciated!