The concept of a Photoblog is just a bit newer than blogs as diaries and as business devices. The vlog is even newer but with my 33kbs dial up connection in Mexico the vlog takes far too long watch.
As a photographer forced into retirement by disability the photoblog is fascinating. Oh, you lucky, young and healthy photographers! The internet gives you your own gallery almost for the asking. For freelancers the photoblog is the way for which I was always searching to present my work to a world of potential clients without that fearful leap into "salesmanship", the cold call. I mailed out pictures and called editors and PR people and architects; but if I had had digital cameras of the present quality, Photoshop and an iBlog...Wow!.
That is one reason I post these guideposts. (That is a pun.) I have been surfing for those sites that will interest people who are looking for a new picture fix. The following are three sites by individual photographers that are worth a visit. They load quickly, present interesting work and often please me. Maybe because some see like me, not like me, or are in a whole different visual world.
There is so much on the net and each blog has links to others and there is an adventure there finding more and more places to alight amidst the unknown.
Today there are three:
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This is a site that presents one picture which it is promised to be changed daily. Today, May 29, it was a nicely seen tent top and sky with rich color and simple forms. It reminded me of the shots I used to do on an assignment for Bard College every few years when they wanted to show off the snazzy tent used for the August Music Festival. These were the visions I played with after the bread and butter assignment shots were done and while waiting for the dusk shots. Now I cannot return to New York to my old client and alma mater and the tent has been replaced with a really fine performing arts center designed by Frank Gehry and shot for the agency Esto and Bard by Peter Aaron and old friend and architectural photographer of great talent.
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