About PhotoWirral
 
PhotoWirral is a website that was thought up in early 2005 by myself, Matt Cullum, a young amateur photographer. It was originally aimed as a website to showcase the Wirral Peninsula in photographs, but at the time the format and basis of the website was undecided.
 
In 2006, I was in two minds about how to develop the site. My initial idea when I began the project was to travel around the Wirral Peninsula, visiting many different area's and taking photographs, then putting them online via this website. However, I then began contemplating with the idea of developing the site into an interactive user forum and photo gallery.
 
After months of deliberation, I decided to to stick with the first idea. My reasoning for this was because it would have been to hard and time consuming to develop such a site, pre-made scripts were very restrictive, there are already many established interactive photo websites on the internet, and most of all because I wanted the website to showcase my own work rather then just becoming another photo sharing website.
 
The basis of this website design was coded in mid-2005 not long after the initial idea was planned, however due to a busy life during 2006 and various other delay's, as well as not being entirely sure what I wanted the project to become, there was very little development in the website from mid-2005 until May 2007. During this time however, I did regularly travel the Wirral taking photographs whenever I could, in the hope that I could one day turn my idea into reality.
 
PhotoWirral is therefore merely a website which showcases photographs taken by myself, over a period of years and will be an ongoing project, at least for many years to come.