Do you have a website? A question that sunk in because I had no website at the time. I have always had websites to share my work, but they kept raising prices and limiting data. So, like with so many others, I relied on social media to share my work, which would be great if the images weren’t crushed and if the algorithms didn’t mess with posts.
If you post a photo for photographer friends to see, you don’t expect they will keep your images hidden and only show them if you jump through enough hoops. Hooks like having to spend an enormous amount of time in the platform, putting likes on other people’s photos, comments and shares. You don’t add enough key words? Oh we will hide all your posts for that. Post too much or too little and we will punish you. Do this do that and maybe they will let others see your posts, maybe not, it’s up to them.
There used to be a forum for photographers, but it was too much work and too expensive to host that many high quality photos so he closed it down. Now we have social media where we can post all we want to share with fellow photographers, but the images are severely compressed with colors flattened.
Building a new website is exactly what I needed. It gets me away from endless scrolling on social media (those cute puppy videos are addicting), but it keeps me working for myself and that feels good. It keeps my mind sharp and keeps me busy learning new things all the time.
Some social media sites show one row of medium size photos, taking an incredible amount of time to scroll down to the first image. Meta isn’t much better, you show a full page of small pics but even then the scrolling can take a far too long to keep an interest and forget trying to find something again. My new website should be organized in a manner where you can find a photo again. You can do easy accurate navigation (if I don’t make mistakes) to view every image I post, everything easy to search to return to a photo on a page. Each link in the drop down menu above goes to a directory for that year.
