Photoblogging 1
One year ago, when I discovered Flickr, I wasn't taking a lot of photos. I had a digital camera, for vacations and work, but apart from the occasional burst of pictures on my way to the office, there was no documentation of my day-to-day life. After a while, taking loads of photos and just dumping them into iPhoto for posterity became tedious, like cooking for one.
Flickr was just the first of two significant catalysts that started me off as a photoblogger; it gave me the tools to publish. Three days later, I went to the second NYC Photobloggers event at the Apple Store, which sealed the deal. I've been taking pictures almost every day since then, and working to become a better photographer. Each of the presenters at NYCPB2 was really impressive, but there were three NYC photobloggers speaking that day who I think about a lot when I shoot and edit:
- David Gallagher, of lightningfield.com, whose mailing-list method of photoblogging was so catchy that it almost obscured his work as the best cameraphone photographer in New York.
- Keith Kin Yan, of overshadowed.com, and his infectious love for The Image. His attention to details of composition and color is inspiring.
- Eliot Shepard, of slower.net. I'm a huge Eliot Shepard fan. He takes fantastic, honest photos of people, and he wrote his own epic photoblog system to showcase them. Eliot's work as a photographer and a programmer has been a tremendous influence on my work as a photoblogger.
This Friday is the fifth installment of the NYC Photobloggers series at the Apple Store, and marks what I consider the one-year anniversary of my work as a photoblogger. I will be there (sitting quietly, not speaking) as I was a year ago, with a slightly better camera and nine hundred posted photos to my name.
In the next couple of weeks, I'll post some thoughts on what I've learned from all this, and where I'm going with it.
inspirations-ish , photo-ish , photoblogging-ish by tangentialist at 01:13 PM on 27 Sep 05 | Perm-a-link | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)