About Photofolio
Photofolio.be started as a showcase for my photos and some other work. After replacing my analog gear with a Canon digital SLR camera, I started taking a lot more pictures then I used to do. And what's a better solution to prevent them gathering dust on my harddisk then put them in an online photo album?
A first attempt, pure html & tables based (see right) remained unfinished as it grew much too complicated, took too much time and in the end was put aside. So I started all over again and the result was the first version of photofolio.be that went online (see below). Although I didn't use any tables anymore for the page structure, it was still an unholy alliance between old style html & modern CSS based webdesign. The comments were mostly positive and this encouraged me to go on; soon the whole website had grown to about 100MB. Finally a stage to show what it's all about in the end: my photographs.
The large & unmanageable source code combined with
a wish -and in the meantime the knowledge- to make a totally CSS based, smaller
design led to the third version, wich you're visiting now. As you can see the styling
is intentionally an evolution of the second version. As I plan to continue this
site for a long time, the design should be more timeless then trendy.
Update >
In the meantime we're well into 2009 and you're strolling around on the pages of the fourth iteration of this website. After a one year and a half long hiatus photofolio.be has gotten a complete make over. At first my idea was to just weed through the big pile of pictures taken to do the long due update but I couldn't stop myself from tampering with the source code too. Secondly, I've switched to the Mac side of life and had to give up some programs to maintain photofolio.be. So I had no choice then to reinvent at least the webalbums themselves.
About me
The person behind photofolio.be is me, Jochen Schollaert. I'm a 32
year old designer of car accessories and I live in Belgium, in the
Flemish part. I studied Product
Development at Antwerp
and right after graduating I started working
for Honda
Access, based in Aalst, Belgium, which also happens to be my hometown. I'm a lucky man that this job gives me the opportunity to travel a lot around Europe and to Japan, hence the many pictures from the land of the rising sun on this website.
Except for taking pictures, I fill a lot of my spare time with design.
This goes from making website & graphic designs to just reading about it.
As for mens sana in corpore sano I try to go running on a regular
basis. The emphasis is on try though. Above all this movies, music, European style comics and last but not least cars all grasp my attention.