Right now, my profits from the ads on this site barely outpace my web hosting bills. If you donate (PayPal) by clicking above, I’ll save your money to keep Thripp.com, DaytonaState.org, Th8.us, and VicAndHelen.com online. I’m going to stay online either way; I’ll just pay from …

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You can email me at richardxthripp@thripp.com, call me at 386-675-4472 (7 A.M. to 7 P.M. Eastern Time), or send me an instant message if you catch me online: AIM: richardxthripp, ICQ: 261-590-795, MSN: richardxthripp@hotmail.com, YIM: richardxthripp. If it’s a post on my website you want to talk about, leave a public comment at the bottom of its page. If you don’t like these options, use the contact form below. All fields are required; you can use HTML in your message. Start writing . . .

If you’re near Daytona Beach, Florida, I’ll take pictures of you, your family, an event, or whatever. I charge $50 for the day (it doesn’t matter how long it takes), but I’m selective. You have to be beautiful like these people, and any events have to be really interesting. If I haven’t scared you off, give me a call.

Phone: 386-675-4472
E-mail: richardxthripp@thripp.com
Snail-mail: 1829 NELSON AVE / ORMOND BEACH FL 32174-7227

The picture to the right is me. I can take pictures of you like that. If …

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The X stands for justice.

I’m Richard, a Daytona State College student in computer science. I’m 17, have been taking pictures for 4 years, and developing myself personally for at least 6 months. I didn’t start taking brilliant photos till I started this website in 2007 December, though.

I made Thripp.com so my family could get online and blog without me having to maintain separate sites for everyone. Here’s my Dad, my Dad again, mom, cousin, another cousin, …

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This is my first post as a 17 year old. The pivotal birthday was 2008 August 17, a Sunday. My youth is just slipping away. I’ve written this list of seventeen things I’ve learned over the years.

1. Passion is fleeting.

I used to be fascinated with the color blue. Then when I was 6 I switched to red. Around 14 I switched back to blue again. Now I’m starting to like green (notice my website’s colors?).

Don’t count on being dedicated to writing, piano, blogging, or photography all your life. Don’t root yourself in material mediums, because it doesn’t matter …

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Richard's picks:

Richard X. Thripp in QUANTA.
Essays by Richard X. Thripp.
2008-07-17 — http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/essays
PDF version (100 KB).

Two introspective essays I wrote in December of 2007 and May of 2008, for completing the Fall and Spring semesters in the QUANTA learning community (daytonastate.edu/quanta) at Daytona Beach College. I can’t look at these and say they speak for me now, because they speak for the Richard X. Thripp of 2007-12 and 2008-05, from which I’m constantly changing. They’re a good representation of QUANTA and elaborate on some of my beliefs, though.

The Learning Community: Reflections on Sixteen Weeks in QUANTA [2007-12-10]

For …

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In the past six hours, I’ve released 53 of my photos as royalty-free stock. Check out the stock gallery to see them all. This means that every photo I’ve published is free for anyone to use. Quite a milestone, I must admit.

All the photos in the portfolio (about page 2 of the stock gallery at the moment) have source images now. I’ve linked to them in each post. So you can get right to the source of things, be it a JPEG (stuff with my older cameras) or .cr2 RAW (from my Canon Rebel XTi). This is great for …

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I’ve been away for two days working on technical issues instead of photography. The big one is that I’ve changed from richardxthripp.com to thripp.com for myself and my users. A lot of work, but worth it because it’s so short. Read more about it here. I’d been posting to Twitter about it, right after I discovered that thripp.com had become available, yesterday.

Expect some more photography tomorrow. The new address is richardxthripp.thripp.com, but richardxthripp.com/richardxthripp, richardxthripp.richardxthripp.com, and rxthripp.com, and subdirectories of them will continue to work forever. My email is now richardxthripp@thripp.com, but richardxthripp@gmail.com and richardxthripp@richardxthripp.com will also …

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The shop is back. It’s a bit different now. If you can recall from a month ago, I gave up on yak because it doesn’t work with Wordpress MU. I found a plugin that does: Quick-Shop. It’s less fancy, but a lot easier to maintain. When you click “Add to Cart” on any page, you get redirected to the shopping cart, with that item added. To go back, press back in your browser (the old-fashioned way). To buy, click the PayPal button; you’ll be redirected to them so you can enter your payment info. Here’s …

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I made a custom Internal Server Error page for the Thripp.com network, with all the photos from my portfolio. Error pages are fun again.

I put a lot of ads there too, so I can monetize the outages. Plus, the links are to the photos on my jpgmag.com gallery, and all the thumbnails are on Photobucket, so the page is light-weight, won’t chew up bandwidth, and makes my photos accessible when the database is down. It’s only 10KB!

I posted this to digg too:

Check out this HTTP 500 page; instead of being rudely interrupted with a

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