Photoblogging
In doing this week’s readings I came across an interesting concept: photoblogging. It came up in Anatomy of a Blog (the 2.4 Commentary section). Apparently photographers (many of them) are putting out photoblogs where they post their photographs with little or no information (except maybe the exif data). The Photoblogs site has a Hall of Fame where photoblogs they’ve decided are significant are listed. There is some wonderful work in these blogs and what amazed me even more was the number of comments they were getting. As anyone knows these days, there are a lot of photographs online (there seems to be some debate about how many photos are on Flickr alone – but the consensus is somewhere north of 4 billion). As Bill Turkel said in his Digital History class, in an age of abundance the only thing in short supply is attention. As a photographer, how do you get your photographs seen? In my case, I photograph for fun and pleasure, but I always want to be thinking about my photography and getting good constructive feedback – both what works and what doesn’t. I’ve never thought of going to the web for that (yes, I post my photos on Facebook but that’s just for my family and friends and they generally just say really nice things – not that I’m knocking that!). Perhaps I’ll create a photoblog one day.