starting over with a fresh rails application
working user logins. (going with the "user" model instead of "photographer" this time around)
added some helper methods for blocking pages (see http://stackoverflow.com/a/4983354/940217 )
working authentication with placeholder portfolio (home/root) and dashboard pages.

need to also exclude the registration page from being seen by unauthenticated users.
re-implemented fancybox, locked down the registrations controller, re-added styles, added the Photo model, views, and controller complete with image upload.
added a "contact" mailer and styled the notification class