Our new site is live 1/2 Leica or more

I was the last to post before the server crashed like a wave on a beach. Life's a beach. In the interim we finished (for the most part) the debuggin or my new flash website. Dave Casman sent me some interesting feedback, as did George L. I would appreciate comments from forum members who are on high speed connections. All of the non-square photos are Leica.

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Kirk

Did not get any flash movie (?) and some links seem to be broken. Am

I going to the right site? (http://www.kirktuck.com/new takes me to a

weird page that says parent directory and which links back to the old

site). Apart from that, some really good pictures !

We've taken down the original beta site and now we're just doing http://www.kirktuck.com

Try again and let me know.

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Best, Kirk

Well, Kirk, the site is "way cool" as my kids would say. On my

wireless card-cable modem set up it loaded quickly. I love the way

the photos appear instantly when you roll the mouse pointer over

them. Since I have all high rez screens I wish the display box and

photos were bigger, but I would guess that you have to size them to

the lowest common denominator of screen size and resolution.

Nice photography. But it's a pretty small on my monitor (which is

nothing special, just 1024x768) as well.

i agree, the frame is too small. also, i'm against using flash and

feel it dectracts from the power of the images. you want to

showcase your images, not your fancy design skills right? i

believe that a photographer's website should implement design

elements that are as simple and to the point as possible,

allowing the photos to shine through and speak for themselves.

that's just my 2 cents....

Kirk, I found it very fast to load on dsl. Nice presentation, just

enough flash to impress. I especially like "Flowers on white", it

reminds me of some of my wife's food photography.

Personally, I like the use of Flash on your site, Kirk. I always hear

people rail against the use of Flash -- probably because most of

time when it's used, it's poorly designed and executed. Not the

case here. The download is fast and (most importantly) the

navigation is clean and easy to understand. Don't dismiss Flash

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Great photos, Kirk. I especially liked the street scenes from

Rome.

Kirk, I would agree with the previous observations that the window is

too small, considering your target market. For this style of work, I

think it is reasonable to design for a screen size of 1024x768 - that

is generally the minimum screen size among professionals, graphics

people, and ADs. The smaller size would be appropriate only if you

were targeting consumer markets, I think.

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Although I usually don't like Flash-based sites, yours is

well-designed and decidedly un-Flashy (in the good way). On a 384K DSL

line, the portfolios loaded reasonably quickly, but that might change

with larger images. I would have preferred to see more images of the

cute Russian model from the Street section, however. (lol) Nice work,

too, by the way.