31/01/2025
Just a heads up for people, I'm going to be closing my Zenfolio website on April 29th of this year.
In late 2023 Zenfolio adding an "archiving" system to their websites, which would automatically archive photo galleries older than 18 months. When a gallery got archived, it was taken offline, and left a big blank spot on the website where it used to be. To get access to those photos, either myself or the viewer had to request from Zenfolio that the archive be restored, which usually took about a day. So not only were photos unavailable for people to look at, download, purchase etc, but it completely destroyed the look of the website as well. If you've visited the site in the last year or so, you've probably noticed.
Zenfolio also raised the price of the website hosting to pour salt in the wound. Long story short, I was paying more money for a worse service. Zenfolio lost a ton of customers over this, including me, and refuse to change things in response to customer feedback. So when my current subscription runs out, the website will close and all of the photos will be deleted from Zenfolio. If there were photos you had considered downloading before, but never did, now would be a good time to do so. I'll try and make another post closer to the day to remind people.
I currently don't have any plans to open a new website on another service. Zenfolio was mainly good for getting sports photos to people, and I'm not shooting as much sports now as I was a few years back.
Here's the link to the website:
Matthew Boggs Photography based in Perth, Western Australia. Sports, model portraiture, aviation, events and social media photography.