Chris Gardiner Photography & Design

There's always something happening.  Maybe this could have been a social media post and it almost was, but opted to write a slightly longer story here and leave it up on my blog instead of a facebook page.   Today was a unique experience that led me to a "We're not in Kansas anymore" type of feeling. Which in itself, as a kid watching Wizard of Oz, was a feeling I thought relegated to older generations - and maybe thats partly the case now.  Within four minutes today, my website had over 900 form submissions within a span of four minutes.  The internet isn't like it used to be - I've had my first domain nearly twenty years now, and own a lot more today, this was a first.  And it was weird to me - purposeless action. Who am I? Some random photographer who works in a small town.  I get some of these junk form submissions - one offs - my read on them is poorly trained bots looking for any form to submit data to, after crawling the website unsupervised for...