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Photo and photo related blogs…
I’ll start with my mine,
PHOTOHUMOURIST.com

I recently changed the spelling for the UK. There’s now a U in there.
Perhaps we could make a directory listing? I’d certainly love to peruse lots more blogs from fellow lightstalkers. Wouldn’t you?
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Paul Treacy
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Sun Sep 23 03:06:06 UTC 2007
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New York City,
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Here is mine as well: “http://wendymarijnissenphotojournal.blogspot.com/”
Of course the Harvey blog is fantastic as a resource and just a great read: “http://davidalanharvey.typepad.com/”
The Magnum blog has recently been revived by fellow LS Martin Fuchs:
“http://blog.magnumphotos.com/”
I always check out Alex Soths’ one as well: “http://alecsoth.com/blog/”
And this one can be an interesting read as well at times: “http://politicstheoryphotography.blogspot.com/”
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Here goes for mine, http://blog.penso.info/ If you look at the bottom, you’ll get an audio podcast from David Alan Harvey at a Seoul party. It was fun.
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Michal Daniel :))))))))…
i should tell u that I LOVE THAT BLOG…and i love that digital machine u use and the resulting pics :)))…that’s the kind of digi-vision that I love so oooooo much: not about perfection of camera, but about the mystery of photography and of life, the living…that’s what i always mean when this nonsensical debate comes up with digi vs. film: i loved using my old, shitty sony camera 10 years ago as offset for film….and I REALLY REALLY LOVE THAT 1ST IMAGE (MAN ON TRAIN WITH BUILDING): lIke dream from my skull ;))…beautiful….
http://www.640×480.net/album.php?posn=08_31_07_05_45_48pm&size=large
although i havent looked at all your images there (like way too many even for my insatiable appetite to digest): i’ve looked at that blog lots times and i draw inspiration from it, from one photographer to another, someone who gets the strangeness of the living at that the beauty of digital (besides economical reasons) has the same importantce as film: its about convey the wonder, the laughter and the sorrow in the weirdest way: i dont know how a photographer can make a precise, balanced, careful image…that’s just not life (maybe Italian vogue ;) )….just wanted to pass that on…long-time looker of 640x etc
i so love that low resolution: really, like the sound of blood shooting swiftly through the skin….
wearied
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This is GREAT! I wonder how I might go about forming a directory listing here with everything. Maybe just a link to this thread will do. Fun stuff. I have time to myself tomorrow and will peruse these various blogs. I’m so looking forward to it. I’ll add a directory of these blogs to my own.
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This is GREAT! I wonder how I might go about forming a directory listing here with everything. Maybe just a link to this thread will do. Fun stuff. I have time to myself tomorrow and will peruse these various blogs. I’m so looking forward to it. I’ll add a directory of these blogs to my own. Keep it in the family, so to speak.
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Rather than list interesting blogs at my own, I’ve simply added a link to this thread.
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Hey Paul, that is a good idea. I also added this link to my blog…let’s see how this works.
I love these blogs, as I have seen everyones’ webpage, agency, etc ….but the blogs are always being updated…and they are really a lot of fun…
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I can otherwise make a blog directory list, similar to the one I did of the Lighstalkers Photographer Directory Link Exchange which you can see at http://www.pixdesk.ca/ls_links/links.php .
That way, it will be easier for everyone to implement the links on each others websites.
If there is an interest, I can set that up in a few hours.
…Mikael
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That sounds cool Mikael. Lots of work though. I was going to do something similar though time would have been an issue then I got to thinking that all we needed was a link to this thread from each of our blogs. Simple really.
Perhaps tonight I will have time to explore the links added here. I very much look forward to it.
Thanks everyone. I hope we all take some time to peruse these links and set up a network.
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Paul,
The link page is more of an automatic thing. I just need to create the input and output webpage which will take me an hour and then people can add their blogs by themselves. That way it is self lived and will grow as people add their blogs.
I enjoy seeing so many [photographer blogs out there :):)
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This is a resource in and of itself. My google reader is much happier now.
Here’s my blog, shamelessly full of typos.
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Mine is currently random posts about assignments but, I am going to try to narrow the focus and post more topical stuff, just sort of “finding my voice”
http://www.onewordphotography.com/blog
By the way, I remember a post a while back about linking to sites. Do links on your blog count? If so, I’d be glad to add all of the above if people would do the same for mine.
Cheers,
Dan
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the last 3 months or so include posts from my internship at VII..
HTTP://ASYOUWERE.WORDPRESS.COM
will start posting my work from the current position at harvard news..
i’m enjoyin everyones blogs!! take care
.m
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Talkin’ incoherent shite, so you don’t have to…its all part of the service at the SionPhoto Blog
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Oh ok then..
http://hmmm.co.za
And as soon as i get a chance to develop this roll of film, it will be updated
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This is fun. . .
Sucka Pants
travel, live music, general craziness from Brooklyn, NY.
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mine:
left-eyed right-handed
including many links to other photography related blogs/websites (there are far more links than posts on my blog… too busy reading what others have to say…)
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My blog:
>Re: PHOTO: http://re-photo.co.uk
Pronounced ‘Ray-photo’ which is how I learnt to say ‘Re’ many years before the internet existed. I started it in May, after the NY Times decided they didn’t really want a photography site that was really ‘About Photography’.
I also have a photo-diary, which isn’t a blog for various reasons (mainly that it started a long time ago), but is a kind of personal web diary, called ‘My London Diary’: http://mylondondiary.co.uk
I think there are now almost 25,000 pictures on it.
Peter
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Hi,
I have also just started building my blog: http://thecamerawala.blogspot.com/
You are invited there. Looking forward to your valuable inputs and comments.
Thanks
Santanu
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bANDa.co.ba is a true proof of Bosnian tolerance and it’s cosmopolitan nature. :D
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Have finally gotten around to update my page and get it into a data base system.
Blogging about everything concerning photography and then throw i some poetry if in good mood :)
http://www.aurora.is
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Looking at different ways of showing documentary photography…. Exploring new opportunities that the internet and new technology offer the photographer.
http://www.docphot.org
Martin
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I think it’s great everybody is sharing their work. I’d like to offer a suggestion for how this list could be taken to the next level. Google loves links. Knowing this we can use this to our advantage. If each person chooses one lightstalker member who has listed his/her blog here and writes a post about their work and in that post links to that person’s website, over time each person here will gain many links to their site which helps their page ranknig in Google an thus elevates us all with regard to search engines, primarily Google. In addition the website stubmleupon.com (and similar social bookmarking sites) can be used to drive traffic to our websites as well.
I created an account on stumbleupon.com and added an entry for my own blog. I got several hundred hits on that day. While that might not seem like a lot, I had just launched the blog so I went from 0 to several hundred views in one day. I didn’t consistently get those several hundred views on the following days but, if somebody else were to stumble my blog and yours on a weekly basis, over time a lot of traffic would come. If in addition to writing about each person we also took a couple minutes to “stumble” the person’s blog too it would drive additional traffic to our sites and perhaps gain viewership among people who weren’t necessarily searching for photography related sites with a search engine.
If we collectively do things like this on a weekly basis the mighty internet powers will think that our sites are consistently getting attention and are therefore important and worthy of attention.
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Seth,
Can you tell me how you submit your own site or blog to Stumble, I’ve gone through it and can’t see how to do this. I do have an account and have used it.
BTW, great idea.
Dan
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probably the easiest way is to install the toolbar for firefox or IE. you can get it on their website. After it’s installed just go to your site and click the ‘thumbs up’ icon. If nobody has ‘stumbled’ your site before it will tell you you’ve discovered a new site and you can add a blurb about it that other stumble upon users will see.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
I’ve read that stumbleupon keeps track of the domain that each stumble comes from and doesn’t give as much weight to stumbles for a given site that consistently come from the same domain. So constantly stumbling your own site doesn’t do much and can actually work against you. However stumbling once shouldn’t hurt anything. I don’t know this for fact but i’ve seen it mentioned among discussions of stumble upon and it’s inner workings.
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just in case anybody out there is unaware, there are 2 very good Google tools for website owners.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tour/tour1.html
the webmaster tools tell you how many sites link to yours and who they are, as well as telling you how your site looks to google, keywords, search terms etc.
another free tool is Google analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
I think both of these tools are indespensible with the added bonus that they’re free.
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As I walked to the movie theatre tonight I couldn’t get this subject out of my head so i’m posting again while everything is still fresh in my mind. I realized that as a (semi)organized group we lightstalkers have quite a lot of power we’re not taking advantage of. There’s a lot of power in the “group”. Take for example the strikes in France right now. As individuals the workers have no power but together they have quite a lot of power. It’s the same with all of us on the Internet. We all try to figure out ways to get our websites higher page ranks but as individuals it’s very difficult. If we were to make an organized effort to work together we could elevate ourselves with the power of our shear numbers.
Google doesn’t go into detail about the nuts and bolts of it’s page ranking system but they do state publicly that fundamentally they determine page rank by quantity of links to a given site and the quality of those links. So a link from a site like cnn.com would be more powerful than 10 links from john q. nobody. However, we’re not really competing with cnn.com for search results we’re competing with everybody else with a website displaying photos.
As an example, if I do a Google search for ‘photos brazil’ Google returns 56 million pages. So I’m competing with 56 million other websites for that coveted first page listing. OUCH!!! Now, heavy hitting sites like Nat. Geo don’t show up on the first page and neither does Getty. In fact the pages that did show up on the first page of google had photos that for the most part were not very impressive. I’d be willing to bet that none of the pages that showed up on the first page of my search have more than 100 links to them. I don’t know how many lightstalkers members there are but let’s say there are 10,000. So if I had a link from all of the lightstalkers members that would give me a page rank far beyond any of the other sites that showed up in my search. An extreme example I know but let me illustrate my point. Suppose all 10,000 members of lightstalkers had links to each-others sites and let’s say that 50% of lightstalkers members have pictures related to brazil on their website. That would mean that theoretically google’s first page of search results would contain only lightstalkers members since we would all have a quantity (and quality) of links much higher than anybody else on the Internet. Now i’d be competing with 5000 other websites rather than 56 million!
So how can an extreme example such as this be put into practice? This thread was created in an effort to address the issue of getting our websites seen. Since many members have blogs that are most likely used, at least in part, as marketing tools. We can utilize these tools to elevate ourselves as a group which in the end benefits each member. Like an ant colony, each individual is fairly powerless but as a group they are very powerful and each member of the colony benefits from the work of each individual.
As a more realistic example suppose some (hopefully large) number of lightstalkers members agree to participate in an organized campaign of promoting fellow participants. If once a week (as an example) each participant posted in their blog a blurb about another photographer, who happens to be another participant in this campaign, and included a link to that person’s website, over time each participant gains links to their own website from other participants. This gaining of links would be organic and beneficial to all who participate. Imagine if you gained a link a week to your website. It would appear to the big computers in the cloud that your website is really gaining in popularity from seemingly random sources .
The obvious course of action is for all of us to start making linking deals, “you write about me and I’ll write about you”, etc. This may seem like a good solution but I think the result would be an initial spike in posting and linking but would eventually die out and in addition it would introduce yet another popularity contest. Since we have a community here we ought to approach this as a community effort that would benefit all members of the participating community equally. We’re already competing with the rest of the internet world, competing amongst each other seems counter productive, at least until every first page of a google search has exclusively websites from lighstalkers members. :)
I propose a more systematic approach that I think would be longer lasting as well as offer a level playing field so that everybody can benefit equally from the collective effort.
I’d be willing to create (and host) a web page that would allow lightstalkers members to add a URL to the site they want written about, maybe it’s a blog maybe it’s a portfolio site. The URLs would be stored in a database and I can create another page with a small flash program with a button that when clicked will randomly select a URL from the database. The person retrieving the URL would then take a look at the site and post an entry on their blog with a few words about the site and/or photos and a link to that person’s site. The idea being that each person writes about other members and other members are writing about you. In the interest of transparency I could also post a statistics page showing the quantity of URL selections for each participant so that everybody can see there’s an even spread and nobody is getting favored. Of course each participant needs to go the distance and actually do the blog post, the whole thing is on the honor system but the more active participants there are the more everybody benefits.
In effect we would all be implicitly promoting our websites by explicitly promoting somebody else’s. Over time we would all gain links to our individual sites raising our page rank which then raises the value of every link we give to somebody else. Like a swarm of locusts we can descend upon the internet. (evil laugh)
I’m interested in everybody else’s thoughts on this issue, i think together we can hammer out a plan of action to benefit us all.
footnote: it’s 2:00 a.m. on a sunday, please forgive any signs of mental instability in my post.
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Seth,
At first glance, this sounds like a good idea. Since this post started, I wondered how many people actually put a link on their site to other sites from this post. For just the reasons you mention, I assumed not many. I added a half dozen or so then accidentally wiped them off my blog today when I was monkeying around with it. As well, many people just don’t have a links page on their site so, would prefer not to bother.
Anyway, I’m in and will do whatever I can to help. On the surface, it sounds like a workable idea, I’m hoping someone with a significant amount of google/seo experience will chime in with their opinion.
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Mine is just under a year old and I srtarted off posting much more regularly then then I do these days. Nevertheless, I’m surprised how many bother to read it. It’s not so much about standalone pictures but about what they trigger for me:
http://englandspastures.wordpress.com/
Thanks,
Richard.
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If anyone wants to add their photography related websites and blogs to the list that Sarah Underhill mentioned, visit the URL http://www.pixdesk.ca/ls_links/
…mikael
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I think there is a crucial detail being overlooked by this movement to aggregate links of our websites. I looked at the site mentioned in the previous post: http://www.pixdesk.ca/ls_links/
While the list does provide a centralized list of lightstalkers’ websites that can allow for other members to view eachothers websites, it doesn’t do much to help us increase the likelihood that our pages will show up in google searches. Google relies heavily on page rank. Here’s an excerpt from google’s website regarding page rank:
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PageRank Explained ( http://www.google.com/technology/ )
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.” Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages’ relative importance.
Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don’t match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page’s content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it’s a good match for your query.
/*
So just having a page of links, even if we all put it on our sites doesn’t count for much because the link page itself wouldn’t be considered “important”. There are several reasons for this.
Firstly the page contains primarily links. From other research i’ve done, google doesn’t give much weight to pages made primarily of links because it would be easy for unscrupulous webmasters to manipulate their system by creating endless numbers of link pages.
Second there’s not much content on the page for a search engine to sink it’s teeth into. Sure it would pick up everybody’s name but unless somebody is searching for your name specifically there’s no reason that link page would ever be returned in a search.
What is needed is an organized effort to raise our collective page ranks. This means creating content that itself has (at least the potential for) a good page rank and links to the sites of other members.
As was proposed in a previous post, if we use our blogs to occasionally profile other lighstalkers members, describing their work and providing a link(s) to their site in the post we would be using google’s system as a tool for our advantage. A good example of what was mentioned previously is the blog of lightstalker member http://www.lightstalkers.org/tewfic-el-sawy with his blog: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/ he does exactly what we all should be doing. If we all used our blogs the way tewfic el-sawy does and wrote/linked to each other using this method we would be collectively raising our page ranks. Each time somebody wrote about your website it would help raise your page rank which in turn raises the value of each link you give to another lightstalker member.
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Seth,
Your idea is great, and you should go ahead and implement it.
The list I created was setup in a couple of hours to save people the time and aggravation to have to enter other photographers manually.
I just wanted to create a simple centralized place where people could put their name and website. I also created a description field, so if you ended up looking at the http://www.pixdesk.ca/ls_links/photographers.php page rather than the links.php page, you will see that there is more information.
I can also say that I have many google searches on my server logs when people have been searching for individual photographers. You are right though, that they will need to search for the photographers name.
…Mikael
PS! if anyone want’s to add a description field to their already listing, send me the text and I’ll add it to the database. Max 55 Characters please.
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Mikael your site was a great step in the right direction. It’s obvious there’s some interest here in working together to improve our visibility. I went ahead and created a simple web applet so that hopefully we can take this to the next level. I’m going to include a brief summary so people who haven’t been actively reading this thread don’t have to go back and read every post to know what’s happening.
In an effort to improve our collective page ranks ( http://www.google.com/technology/ ) with google it was proposed that we work together as an organized group, to use the web and it’s technology to our advantage rather than working separately and competing with the millions of amateur photographers and their websites as well as the websites of microstock companies for search engine results.
The steps required to participate in this project/experiment are few but success will require a commitment by everyone involved. The more participation both in numbers of participants and frequency of participation, the more we all collectively benefit.
The premise is based on google’s page ranking system which is explained by google in the link above. Many of us have blogs. The idea behind this project is that we use our blogs to occasionally (but consistently) profile the work of a fellow lightstalker who is participating in this project by writing a post about his/her photography and including one or more links to their website in the post. Over time all participants will gain more links to their site which will increase each person’s page rank. As each person’s page rank improves, by receiving more links from other sites, the value of each link given to other sites goes up. Thus we raise each other up collectively.
To participate:
1. go to http://www.cafesilencio.net/lightclub and enter your lightstalker member ID and the URL for your website.
2. when you have the time to profile another member, go to the same website and click the ‘get URL’ button. a URL from the database will be randomly selected and displayed on the screen along with a button you can click to go to the site.
3. look over the website and write something about the photography on your blog, be sure to include a link to the person’s website in the blog post.
4. get yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy a feeling of satisfaction that by promoting another lightstalker member, somebody else is promoting you.
Personally I’m going try and do this once a week.
Also, on the screen of the web applet there’s a button to see all of the sites that are in the database and the number of times they’ve been retrieved from the database as a result of clicking the ‘get URL’ button. Those who get their site in early will naturally have a higher number than those who add their site 3 months from now. The URLs are retrieved randomly from the database in an effort to provide a level playing field to all participants.
I hope that this can be a long term successful project that we all benefit from. Please spread the word among the other lightstalker members who may not be monitoring this thread.
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Seth, The site looks good. I hope that people will take the time to follow through on the steps. Let me know how it goes.
On another note, when I added the description field to my list I manually went and checked more than 50 of our members website, to put their info into the description field. I was very chocked to discover that most people did not have any META keyword or META description fields in their html head section. Not that you should rely on it to much, but it should be there.
Good job Seth,
…mikael
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Mikael, the description meta tag is important for a couple of reasons. Google will use the content of this tag when displaying a link on it’s search result page. So you want something there that will intice somebody to click on the link. If the description tag isn’t there google will generally take the first bit of text it can find which may or may not be desirable. An easy way to find your own site in a google search is ofcourse to search for your name and/or domain. Check the text it has under the link, it should be the description tag if you have one. The keyword tag is a toss up. I’d have one but I don’t know how much weight it carries since people tend to over do it.
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I’ve just started one from Mexico called Aztec Postcards
Check it out.
Keith Dannemiller
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Go Seth Bourget,
Great work on the lightclub deal. Just following the thread here and wanted to let you know that META key wording has been a big asset in combination with the meta-description for my own efforts. For instance, by adding “contemporary” by META-keyword—in combination with “documentary photo” in META-description, I am able to get my project TATTERED to show up #11 out of 229,000 for the search “contemporary documentary photo”, a status which it definitely does not deserve in the context of the world’s contemporary documentary photo.
I have also found that by reviewing the keyword searches that lead to my site at random, I can capitalize on this and switch keywords and META-tags enough to get search engines to see each feature on my site is a separate component, enough to give it a seperate search engine ranking in-line with the original domain which has been a great help as well as far as visibility goes.
I hope Brazil is treating you real well and kudos to the writing component of your project as well.
Safe Travels
Seth
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Hey Seth, you gotta blog? If so, please link.
I’m gonna check now.
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Here is my new bog.
words on photography
It forces me to write instead of looking at blogs. I have added a whole new truckload to my google reader.
Tom Leininger
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Tom’s mobile photo blog : Tomoblogo.
Photos taken and send directly from a mobile phone.
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To all:
Mine is blog about life after a long career in photojournalism.
jaymather.blogspot.com
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Okay ladies and gentlemen, based on these responses and my own blogging endeavors, I’m planning to put together a website listing many of the best photoblogs by pro level shooters. It’ll be substantive. It’ll be fun. It’ll be a hub for all interested.
One day I hope to be able to do some reviews of interesting blogs and to invite many of you from time to time to write about your blogs and what you hope to achieve with them. I hope to bring in some sponsors too and see where that can take us.
I’ve just secured PhotoBlogCentral.com and will start working on it by the end of January 2008 with hopes of going online at some point in February.
Please let me know if this is something that interests you and if I can list your blog.
I’m inexperienced at this sort of thing but hope to learn a lot over the coming months. I have the time between now and June to get stuck in. I will be moving back to London in the summer and so will have much of this time available to try and make something interesting and worthwhile of this.
Any and all pointers would be hugely appreciated.
First up I need to design a logo.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
Paulyman.
PhotoBlogCentral.com
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Nice idea Paul,
I’m available to ensure it’s not hacked in any manner, just shout if you need it
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Paul,
I like your idea and I’ve started something similar.
During the past few months I’ve been looking a lot of photo blogs. Being me, I really like the ones I like. I have pondered the question, “How do I find more photos that I like?” Searching doesn’t really get me there and rifling through the hundred or so blogs I have aggregated into my feed reader takes a lot of time.
In short, I want a way to find people who like photos that I like. I want to be able to see the photos they have marked as good.
I set up http://phot.ographs.com/ in the hopes of finding more feeds I like. Here are the nuts and bolts of how it works:
1. I use Google Reader to aggregate lots and lots of photo blog feeds.
2. In Google Reader, I share the photo posts of the photographs I like and give them a tag so they show up on phot.ographs.com
3. I set up a wordpress blog that can parse RSS feeds into a page that humans can read
The blog I set up at phot.ographs.com has the capability to mesh several feeds together. I set it up that way because I am hoping to find feeds of shared photographs that I also like. In this way, I see photos that are more relevant to my interests.
My question to the community is: Are any of you using Google Reader to share your favorite photographs? If so, please post the link to your shared feed. Here is mine: http://feeds.feedburner.com/phot_ographs
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Laurie, do you get permission from the photographers before putting their images on your website? It sounds like yours is an automated process that neither gets permission nor informs the photographers that their images are being displayed there. Also how come there’s no copyright notices appearing next to the images so the average viewer on your site doesn’t think that the images are free for the taking?
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my bad there are some copyright notices.
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Seth,
All of the photos are linked to their original location. In that way, all the work is always attributed to the original author. Each work is displayed with all the information the author included in the original blog post. In no way am I claiming any of this work. To the contrary, I am offering my endorsement for the photos that are part of the reading list.
The site is fueled by my viewing preferences coupled with an automated process that neither asks permission nor informs the author in a traditional sense.
Regarding your question about copyright notices appearing next to the photographs. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “free for the taking.” Can you expand on that?
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Keith: I use Stumble Upon. I’m just learning how to make it work for me, but I see the potential. It integrates nicely into Google Reader.
I think Stumble Upon works best in a community. My user name is lmgotera, although I’m a bit unsure about how to add a community there.
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At first I didn’t see any copyright notices on your site then i noticed a few.
By “free for the taking” I mean that there’s a general attitude among the public at large that
anything found on the internet is free and available like picking up a coke can off of the street.
Many people may come to your site and see a page of images which are out of the context of their
original home, like the photographer’s website that may say very explicitely that the images are
protected by a copyright and owned by a person who uses the pictures to make a living.
It seems to me that as photographers we should be first in line to respect the intellectual property
of our peers/collegues. I’m not suggesting you committed some great sin but personally I wouldn’t
want my rss feed scraped and my images to appear on an aggregate site such as the one you’ve made.
It’s just my personal point of view but I think others would share the same point of view, but
with an automated rss scraping site like yours the individuals appearing on your site aren’t
getting the opportunity to say ‘no thanks’.
For me personally it would be different if someone said ‘hey i want to write a blurb about your work on
my blog and i’d like to include one of your pictures, is that ok?’ With this situation I have the
opportunity to decline and I know which image is going to be used and where.
There are a lot of rss scraping sites that take other people’s writing and photos and display them
on sites with advertising in an effort to use other people’s work to make money.
You’re not doing that and I think it’s great you’re not trying to profit from other peoples work but if
it were me I’d want to be asked, they are after all my pictures.
That’s just my 2 cents, other people’s change may vary.
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you’re right keith, stumble upon or delicious are great ways to accomplish these kinds of ‘best lists’. stumble upon has sent me a lot of traffic in the past.
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Seth:
I want to clarify on one point. My site is not an RSS scraping site. The only automated bit of it is that it posts what I have chosen to ask it to post.
I hear what you’re saying about wanting to be asked to place a photo somewhere else than one’s own site. I had never thought of endorsing photos as taking away from the original work so I had never thought to ask for permission to share the work.
If I may, I’ll explain my philosophy behind why I maintain phot.ographs.com.
There is an immense sea of content online. As more content is added I have found that looking for it in traditional ways such as search engines has become much less rewarding. I believe that there are other people online who have similar tastes and I want to be able to see what they are reading (or endorsing as good). In a way I am hoping to expand my list of friend advice to people I have not met. I know I can go to my friend’s house and look at the titles on their bookshelf. What I hope to accomplish with phot.ographs.com is to be able to peruse the virtual coffee tables of photography enthusiasts in order to discover new photography.
To address your question about asking permission. Let it be known that I will remove any post that the author does not want to be on my list of endorsed photographs.
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fair enough laurie, i hope you didn’t think i was suggesting you were a bad person i was just offering a different point of view. an excellent example of what your stated goals are can be seen here: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/ by a fellow lightstalker. I go to it for the very reasons you outlined.
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Good idea Paul, thanks for the initiative. We just started a Metro Collective photo blog, take a look. Be happy if you could list it. We have a News category and a Singles category (the main blog shows both). I linked directly to just the Singles, probably cleaner to just use that.
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my personal blog: payingoffmyloans.blogspot.com . I put up photos all the time, but as someone else said, it"s also “embarrassingly personal.”
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I’m now updated my personal blog with some work from my recent trip Sierra Leone.
the address is http://mikkotakkunen.com
I also keep updating a blog dedicated to providing good photojournalism related links (photo essays, interviews, multimedia…) from sites like New York Times, New Yorker, LA Times, Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek etc.
the address is http://photojournalismlinks.com
Take a look.
Cheers.
Mikko
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I’m adding loads of these listed here to my blog, http://photohumourist.blogspot.com right now.
I hope to post regularly in 2009. I was a little lazy in 2008.
Any updates we all need to know about? My plans for photoblogcentral have slip what with the move to London and such like.
Are there more blogs to know about?
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I’ve added loads of the above links to my blog, http://photohumourist.blogspot.com and will add the rest later. Right now I need a break. I hope some of you will add my blog effort to your blogroll.
All the best for 2009. See you back here later.
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mikko, i check your blog every single morning… thanks…
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I recently switched to Wordpress… Here it is Vebahood
What happened with formating… Has it changed, how do we make link live?
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my photo blog: http://gordonstillman.blogspot.com/
It is about whatever I am photographing, which is usually within 700 miles of Richmond, Virigina (most recently: Nashville, TN).
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Nothing happens on mine http://blinkandremember.blogspot.com/ .still waiting for a comment from Dec the third,,,,,,,,, then I can move on, meanwhile it will remain dormant until someone comments
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Will add mine to the huge list above!
http://www.orangeblob.com/blog/
Travel photos and the story behind them / technical specs of the photos etc. Also some other posts on tools/technology related to photography.
thanks!
tim
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Imants,
You’ve got your comment. Now move your hmmmm and shows us some more work…:-)
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Imants, You’ve got your comment. Now move your hmmmm and shows us some more work…:-) ..can’t I locked myself out!
http://www.etrouko.com.au/
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I have a resource blog for y’all. It’s my site for people who shoot digital. Tech news, tips/tricks, opinions, product reviews, etc. Hope it helps!
http://www.realworldworkflow.com
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Photobarry.blogspot.com
Photo blog in Georgian Language. Maybe for someone it will be useful.
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nowwithflavor.blogspot.com/
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oh well, this list wouldnt be complete without mine :)
if you like it, you can grab the rss-feed here: milosdjuric.com RSS
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We are two (for the moment) photojournalist in a coalition that we call Alpha Reporter(αR). On the web site we have a blog where we show part of our work,as well as works of the PJ community, discuss a topic, and announce an event.
http://www.alphareporter.org/Carnets/Carnets.html
(in french)
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Musings from the Big Toke..
zokyo.jp
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My blog, part of my (in update) website with pictures of my current projects on Eastern Europe and on Belgium:
http://blog.pongo.eu.org
Do not hesitate to comment/criticize ;)
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Here is mine
www.pacoelvira.com
A Barcelona professional photographer diary: articles, books, published stories, exhibitions, assignments, workshops, technical explanations…
(English & Spanish)
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And here is mine, just “constructed” – Guest Authors are warmly welcome!
http://socialphotography.wordpress.com
It will contain Photo-Essays, Journalistic Essays with political and social Goals and more…
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http://ericmehl.com/blog
I put up a mix of my own photos, links to sites I think are good and occasionally some thoughts on photography in general.
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space.jeaznar.com
regards to all!
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www.photographicalism.blogspot.com
Just tossing my stone out into a sea of boulders…
Mainly my studio stuff, portrait series and such.
If any Toronto-based photographers are looking for a low-level assistant/lackey, My info is on my blog
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I recently redid my blog and website to incorporate the two like Ami Vitale did. I used the Graphpaper Press Theme along with their On Assignment child theme and their photoshelter plugins.
www.petemarovichimages.com
Comments welcome here and on the blog.
Thanks
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Re-designed my site last month, including an interface redesign and integration of the main site, the blog and the photoshelter image archive. Please let me know what you think!
http://www.orangeblob.com/blog
thanks
tim
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and my valerinistratov.wordpress.com
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Love that pic Damaso! I’m a BIG fan of street art! (Especially in the countries that have real “art” and not just graffiti….
Here’s my blogs:
milkmanstudionyc.blogspot.com : Commerical, Reportage, Destination, shared blog with my boyfriend and business partner: Joao Carlos, it’s the MilkMan Daily Dose
eternalsoulshine.blogspot.com : More abstract, poetry, prose, macro photoraphy, self portraiture, etc.
:) Can’t wait to check everyone’s blog out!
C
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Writer, photographer
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Melbourne,
Australia
En route to
Hobart
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Patrick S. Yen
Creative & Futurist
(See That Which Cannot Be Seen)
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Photographer
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John Lander
Writer/Photographer
(Asian Images)
Kamakura,
Japan
(NRT)
En route to
Kyoto
(ETA: Nov 22 2009).
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Photojournalist
(shoot, eat, drink, shoot, live)
Tarlac,
Philippines
En route to
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