Photographer in W Mass and Berkshires

I am happy to announce the launch of the website for Charles Abel Photography. Charles is an accomplished photographer who worked as the photo editor at the Gazette with me over the past 10 years. His site is charlesabelphotography.com. Please take a look and send him some feedback if you get the chance.

I was excited to work with Charles on this project, and I took the opportunity to use some new tricks in my bag. I used the Suckerfish Lightbox Redux which was developed by Jonathan Christopher, a programmer in Albany. I liked the way that the galleries can pop-up from basic text links, and reduce the visual load on a page by hiding the thumbnails until the user mouses over the links. Of course we all love the Lightbox image display... so many sites use it now.

I also have enjoyed building the back-end tools so that this professional photographer can add, edit and delete galleries at will through a CMS that I built in ColdFusion. This galleries tool is one that many of my clients will use in their sites, and the beauty for me is that I can customize the front-end look to anything I want... not everyone wants the SuckerFish treatment... I am looking forward to using a new image viewer called Pop-box, for example.

So, if you are looking for a senior portrait, are planning a wedding in the berkshires, or just need a great editorial spread, please consider Charles Abel Photography.