Welcome to Pixentient.com.

This site serves two purposes - the first, and most obvious, is as somewhere to show a selection of the photographs I have taken over the past twenty years or more.

I took up photography seriously in 1987, when I extravagantly spent a whole month's wages on a high-end Nikon SLR, and a couple of years later set up a darkroom at home which I used well into the digital age. I have probably owned around fifty or sixty cameras since then, and still have about fifteen.

Despite all that, it has really only been in the past few years that I have really developed my own style and ideas about what I want to capture in my photographs, and I hope that comes across in the images on this site - any comments about my photographs would be welcome.

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The site's second purpose is as somewhere to try out web site development ideas, techniques and technologies.

I have been writing software for a living since the mid 1990s, and on and off before that going back to 1981, but have only recently taken up web development in a big way.

My background in traditional software development means this site looks and behaves much more like a desktop application than a conventional web site - a deliberate decision which I am also using for a few other sites I am working on.

If you are interested, this site is built using Microsoft ASP .NET 4.0 and C# 4.0, SQL Server 2008 and Entity Framework 4.0. There is also quite a bit of JavaScript and JQuery to make things work on the client side, including connecting to a Web Service to interact with the server using JSON. As with the photographs themselves, if you have any comments about the geeky side of things I would be pleased to hear from you,

Thanks,

Chris.