Comments on: Inertia

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:30:06 +0000

@Laurie: As you can see, I don’t post daily anymore. I guess it just comes in fits and starts. I don’t even know that I could adhere to a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedule either. Sometimes I just have nothing to talk about, other times, I can be quite loquacious. I had gotten into the posting just to post, but I rarely wrote anything ‘good’ when I did that.

While photographing the cat, who wouldn’t let me anywhere near, I was thinking about how the cat possibly changed. Perhaps it used to be someone’s pet, but it is now afraid of human contact. No amount of cajoling and sweet ‘Here … kitty … kitty … kitty’ calls could get her to come near.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:07:21 +0000

Got so caught up in my thoughts…forgot to mention how sweet the kitty shots are. He/She is giving you quite the eye.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:06:19 +0000

I always struggle with the issue of how often to post. For a while, a long while, it was daily and not on just one but 2 blogs. Then I realized that it only became about posting something…anything. So I stepped back and re-evaluated. I got sporadic not posting on any schedule and even went nearly a month posting next to nothing. Last summer I decided to post every other day, identical posts on each blog since I had 2 separate audiences. But even now I am considering cutting that back again to 3 posts per week. One reason is the way I visit blogs. I visit so many photoblogs in the course of a week and I don’t do it daily so when I get around to them I find that there are sometimes as many as 10 posts to catch up with for a single photoblog. I end up missing a lot and I though that would be the same for others who “make their rounds”. So I am strongly considering cutting it back to posting only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. That way I have a predictable schedule and I won’t feel pressured to post for the sake of posting and maybe it will be easier for my visitors to keep up to date with me. I will have time to plan ahead and hopefully it will work out well. I still haven’t decided but will soon. I’m leaning heavily in that direction. I like schedules…lol.

By: Andreas Manessinger

Andreas Manessinger — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:08:56 +0000

Oh dear, don’t you hate that SPAM? Guys who comment on your blog just for another link to their site?

Anyway. Yes, it’s important to step out of the box at times. I just did it today. After some weeks of semi-paintings my Image of the Day (1005) is something completely different, an image devoid of meaning and therefore probably a fine vessel to collect whatever meaning is poured into it by the viewer. And there is more to come.

Of course the daily blogging can get in my way as well. It’s pretty hard to post an image a day and stay in any way consistent or keep with a particular project. Essentially you take what you get.

I don’t know, probably I will do kind of a side-project, something that I’ll follow for a while (and pretty regularly so), but that does not completely kill off everything else. I’m thinking of something like one mirror image in three days or, well, you get the idea. That would make for a more focused, project-like work, and I would run such a project as long as it were no chore, and then some other project, but something completely different. We’ll see.

By: Anita Jesse

Anita Jesse — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:22:28 +0000

You sure know how to stir up those resolutions to get out and do more. Your post deepens my resolve to get out with my camera more consistently, rather than working in binges. Congratulations on overcoming those objections.