In Circles
So why a blog? I don't recall seeing many new blogs, mostly I see them once they are established so I am not sure how they usually begin but I would imagine that many go through a stage of explanation. I'll tell you now why I am doing this blog.
I'm a photographer (even so my main income is from Electronics Engineering) and I'd like to get my photos out there, show them to people other than my family and immediate circle of friends.
My first attempt at publishing my pictures on the web was to put them straight into a store front so I setup Imagetank. As a store it works well, as a site to view pictures I find it is noisy, colours clash, text can be overwhelming, it just isn't the best place to do your browsing.
So recently I pondered on what sort of site might be more attractive and more inviting for return visits. There are so many attractive sites on the web so I initially thought that might be the way to go.
Unfortunatley after one month of having my own domain name and also server space I never seemed to get time to complete the site. This was the first dilemna, if I was taking so long to put a site together when was I ever going to have time to update the site.
After a few weeks of procastination I thought about the sites I visit and the ones I return to on a regular basis.
The sites that interest me the most are those that have new content on a regular basis, new material is a big draw card for me. It may be no surprise then that blogs are my most visited sites, picture blogs, art blogs and the occassional forum.
So which was it to be, a gallery type of site which may or may not get updated often, may or may not get viewers coming back. Or a blog which had the same problems but I could update on a small and regular basis while also allowing me to write when I had something to write. I let these thoughts go in circles for several weeks and I finally decided on blogs.
So if I enjoy visting blogs so much then maybe I'll enjoy my own blog, visiting it, updating it.
I hope you enjoy it as well.