• Welcome to Photrio!
    Registration is fast and free. Join today to unlock search, see fewer ads, and access all forum features.
    Click here to sign up

Do you blog?

David Brown

Member
Allowing Ads
Joined
Feb 16, 2004
Messages
4,061
Location
Earth
Format
Multi Format
A lot of photographers and artists have blogs. I started one about a year ago to promote an exhibition (last October) of analog photographs. I elected to continue the blog and just write about photography in general and my own work.

However, maintaining a blog takes a lot of time. Not the computer maintenance; the writing and editing of posts and articles.

Do you blog?

What's your traffic (readership) like?

I'm finding the stats on my blog are making it just not worth the time I spend. I have no illusions that I am making the world better for photography or photographers by blogging, I just thought it would be mildly entertaining. But there are thousands of blogs! Hard to be heard in all the noise.

How about the blog part of APUG? Not much traffic there, either ...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Nope. No blog and no blog traffic.

I "follow" and participate in a couple in other interest areas and much prefer a good dedicated blog to the Facebook/Twitter-style.
 
Blog? no, not really. I have a website which I don't maintain all that well and I have tons of galleries on PBase where I have a lot of "in process" info about ceramic pieces done by myself and others, as well as a rather scattered historical retrospective of my photographic efforts, records of trips, etc. Some of those are a "little bit bloggy" as I have some fairly verbose captions and comments, but I don't really crave interacting that much. (Grumpy olde curmudgeon!)

I'm on Facebook with some misgivings, but do very little with it. It's mostly to keep up with family, although just recently a guy messaged me with "are you the Dave Thomas who lived ...." I am, and he and I used to do some photographic projects together circa 1958 and 59; haven't seen him since maybe the 1960s. Sort of interesting to catch up a bit.

(I'm also on LinkedIn with even more misgivings. Connections are "endorsing" me for talents doing things I've never done -- makes a body wonder what the point is.)

And you're right, to do a really nicely presented, well-written blog is not a trivial exercise. And I fear unless you fill it with nekkid wimmen or famous rock stars having "wardrobe malfunctions," there probably won't be much traffic!
 
Nope, no blog. Though it has crossed my mind. There are a couple that I do read on a semi regular basis.

I don't think either author writes them to create, or support, a revenue stream. Though I could be wrong.

I doubt I ever start one, as the constant dedication would be more than I am willing to support. (Schedules and I, are not the best of friends.)


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
 
I do blog. I do it because I enjoy it and I like sharing, and while the traffic I get is not much, the occasional feedback I do get makes it worth it. The challenge with blogging is doing it regularly and consistently. If you don't post regularly (at least once a week) people will stop coming to your blog because there's nothing new there. The coolest bit has been from my blogging about my antique image collecting - I've had on multiple occasions descendants of the people in my collection contact me with interesting information about the subjects.
 
Most blogs I have had the misfortune of finding on search hits contain very little useful content. Most content I encounter on blogs seems to be either stolen from other sites, made up, wrong or of interest only to the blog creator. So, I tend do not waste my time with blog hits.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Good point. Do they do it for the love of it or to generate traffic and ad revenue?
 
I keep up my blog. I find it's helpful to have a very specific focus and very specific goal in mind...that said, what's also vital is keeping regular posts and since I find street photography is feast-or-famine, I don't make regular posts.

That said, I think it's useful. I don't only put my work out to gain and audience, I do it because I feel I have to, that it's part of the process of creating it in the first place. I use a Wordpress template and it's fairly simple to use.
 
frank said:
One could use a blog simply to store photos, right?
Click to expand...

Yes, and in fact, that's basically what one of my blogs does - its just a public archive of photos that I can display elsewhere by hot-linking.

Kudos to Wordpress from me also.
 
i blog as well ..
been doing it off and on for a few years
i don't do it every day and i am sure my readership doesn't mind
i have a stats thing and while it suggets i get thousands its probably more like 1 robot ..
 
I have a humor blog that I've run since about 2005, but not photo related, although I do post some pictures from time to time.

15minutelunch.blogspot.com if anyone wants to come visit.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

hmm
 

Out of curiosity, why don't you have any of your work here on APUG?
 
I had pondered blogging once. Even invested in the domains, and built the web site. But that was the fun part. Ultimately I couldn't imagine anyone wanting to read entries that always read the same . . .

Woke up.
Showered and Shaved.
Had coffee.
Drove to work.
Made a couple exposures.
Ate lunch.
Drove home.
Ate Supper.
Had coffee.
Made a print.
Made a post on APUG
Went to bed.
. . . then to repeat that 365 times a year. I really couldn't see the point ;-)

This post here is as exciting as it gets.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
In a mud bog I may blog.
 

but did you straight razor and cut yourself after too much coffee ?
that's where a blog might get interesting
 
Sirius Glass said:
In a mud bog I may blog.
Click to expand...

But then I would be getting blogged down.

Most blogs are unbelievably boring self aggrandizing low grade manure fresh shot from the bull of the woods.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register