Profile on Land8lounge

I was recently profiled as a Featured Member on Land8lounge, a social networking site for Landscape Architects. Check out the blog post by Adam Arvidson of Treeline, a freelance writer and landscape architect from the Minneapolis area.

Starting up a new website is hard, especially when you’re trying to create a niche that wasn’t there before -- and are hoping to make a little money, too. Chris Whitis, along with partner Brian Phelps, has spent most of his free time over the past few years doing just that. Sitephocus.com is a searchable image database of the built environment. It has tens of thousands of high-resolution photos ready for download. It is, in a word, voluminous. Because sitephocus was specifically created for design professionals, the images are of things we actually want to see: streetscapes, rain gardens, bollards, paving patterns, etc. But the hordes haven’t exactly come running, and ASLA has seen the site as a potential advertiser, rather than a good resource created by its members for its members.

There's more info from the Q&A about www.sitephocus.com and what sparked the idea. If you're a landscape architect, designer, or interested in landscape architecture, be sure to check out Land8lounge.

Chris