Long time readers of this website will perhaps remember my previous attempt to add a photo section to this website. I called it an experiment. As such, it failed.
It failed primarily from lack of time. If I had been willing, or able, to take more time to upload random (or selected) photos from my everyday life . . . well then, we would have photos. But presently my free time is rather limited, and I must prioritize what is most important. Uploading photos to this website came too low on the list of priorities to ever become a reality.
Hence the lack of photos.
When my life situation changes, I may take another attempt at photo-journaling. But, for the present, I have realized that I must take a different approach.
So, undaunted by my failures, or unable to learn from my mistakes, I am attempting something a little different this year. I have decided to try what I have before only wished to create–that is, a true photo blog.
The idea was to create something more artistic, professional, and consistent than the general freewheeling existence of this website. The problem was, how would I do that if I couldn’t manage the informal photo dumping on this website?
One of the central problems, I realized, is that I can’t, (or don’t,) specifically set aside time for website work. Postings are thus left to the whim of my inclination, and availability of free time. And, if I’m not lacking in one I’m usually lacking in the other. I came to the conclusion that if I tried to undertake the project of consistently uploading photos throughout the year, such a venture was doomed to failure.
The solution was to not even attempt to upload photos throughout the year.
In November of 2006 I received a digital camera of my very own for my birthday. Since that time I have been erratically taking photos and saving them on my hard drive. Come January of 2008 I realized I would have, roughly speaking, a year’s collection of photos. I could cull a year of photos for blogging from that. Then, using the nifty feature of the WordPress software where I can post-date my entries so that they appear at a different time than actually written, I saw I could assemble an entire year’s worth of photo blogging for 2008 in a few days. Thus, instead of setting aside time on a regular basis, I could set aside a few days for an the entire year of photo posting.
Before Jan. 1st rolled around I had completed the first three months. I am now in the process of setting up the rest of the year. I figure that in this way I can share some of the best of my photography from last year throughout this year.
The basic idea was to present one photo every other day, but I have discovered that sometimes I have several photos that are very similar, all of which I think are worth sharing. I have posted the similar photos over several days, but I am inclined to more often post the several similar photos on the same day, which breaks the one photo every other day format–but I’ve decided to not be too much of a stickler.
I have struggled against becoming too bogged down in making things perfect, or caught up in amusing myself. On occasion I have digitally altered some of my photos for amusement/interest. However, it can become rather distracting and time consuming to play around with all the plugins to my photo editing program, so I have tried to avoid it, except on rare occasions. So far I have also studiously avoided offering commentary on my photos as writing a comment immediately doubles (or more) the time required to post.
The photo blog is of a somewhat more professional nature, so I set it up over at my professional website. Anyone who is interested in seeing the photos should go to http://glimmers.creative-vapors.com. Those interested in keeping tabs on my photography can check back every other day for a new picture, or subscribe to the RSS feed at the website and receive notification when photos are added.
Feedback is welcome. I hope you enjoy.
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