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Migrating Home

A website is like a little piece of real estate on the website – a place for your digital life to have a home (complete with its own address!). 

I’ve hosted a personal blog since 2008, and a photo blog almost as long. My blog has lived on a few platforms, like Blogspot and Tumblr, but for more than 10 years, it’s been on a self-hosted WordPress site. 

With two exceptions: both my Artists In Jackson and Musicians In Jackson portrait projects have lived on Squarespace. Two years ago, I moved my Artists project to this WordPress site. Now, I’m working on moving my Musicians project over to this site as well.

Why? Because I’d like all of my photography-related material to live on the same piece of digital property for a few reasons:

  1. My blog gets all the benefit of the web traffic.
  2. I can easily add new entries to the series.
  3. Self-hosting costs far less than a $100-per-year Squarespace subscription. 

So that’s what I’ll be doing this holiday season: moving the final portrait project over to this blog and hosting it here. 

Look for an updated Musicians In Jackson project page, coming soon. 

 

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Show the Work

Show the Work

I love a good, old-fashioned photography blog. Flickr is great, Instagram is mostly trash, Twitter still has some good photography sharing – but a blog? That’s a place I can visit when I want that’s dedicated to the craft.

Take a simple photography blog like Just a Little Patience. Super simple design, minimal text – it’s a place where Johnny Patience shares a lovely picture and a location or a quote. Nothing else. Photos, one after the other. 

Because I’m a writer and a photographer, Patrick LaRoque’s blog appeals to me too: it goes deeper, with updates, thoughts, and (plenty of) opinions on the state of the world, the photography business, and his family. 

My heart goes to blogs like Just a Little Patience because I appreciate its minimalism. It lets the photos speak for themselves. But my head says I have to do the essay-for-every-photo format. My blog has landed somewhere in the middle, but either way, it’s the sharing part that’s important.

Show your work. Talk about it if you want, but above all, put it out there. 

 

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