Smugmug, the host for my image gallery alexanderwild.com, has been down all morning. The problem is apparently serious and resolution may take a while.
I apologize for the inconvenience. If there was a particular image you were looking for this morning and now you can't get to it, email me.
*update 12:15pm; we're online again!
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Apparently both Wordpress and Smugmug host images through Amazon's servers, and Amazon failed in a spectacular fashion this morning. The outage took down both www.alexanderwild.com and many of the images for this blog, so if things appear to behave oddly, that's what's happening.
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