I haven’t put much time into blogging lately (sorry!), so I thought I’d let you guys know that I put up a more in-depth post on the Shinn Photo blog. It’s a behind-the-scenes write-up on a photo shoot I did about a month ago. Let me know if you like it, and if you want to see me continue writing such things!
Enjoy,
Andrew
Here’s the link: shinnphoto.com/blog/?p=317
I’ve tried this before. There was a Shinn Photo blog awhile back, but it didn’t have a very well-defined concept and suffered from a lack of meaningful content. I trashed it after a while. Since then, photographers have gone crazy with client-side blogs, and I’ve happily decided to rip off the general idea and make a client-facing blog with photos and my professional writings. For now, you can see it at www.shinnphoto.com. It’s taking the place of my regular site while I get a new main web site online. Eventually, I expect it to end up at www.shinnphoto.com/blog. Let me know if you’re likely to read it!
Enjoy,
Andrew
This month marks four years of the Andrew and Lisa blog. Here’s a screenshot from four years ago:
Anyone remember that? I looked back and found that my first couple of posts were just sharing interesting links I found. The subject matter was diverse, and included a surprising amount of technical information. I posted about things like politics and Firefox, this cool new web browser I had just found.
At some point, I decided I wasn’t going to further the echo chamber that the blogosphere can sometimes be. I decided it would be more interesting if I only posted original content. I’ve been on and off of this wagon since making that decision. A lot of this original content has hovered around two topics: faith and terrorism. Sometimes I mixed topics. I can’t easily point to a cause for this, except that these things happened to be on my mind.
Some pieces I’ve written are, no doubt, embarrassing when viewed from the distance afforded by time. That’s the hazard of writing in a searchable, accessible, archived medium. Bonus points for you, Shinnfans, for posting links to the poorly-written, immature, or embarrassing stuff in the comments to this post. As a matter of fact, I’d love to have you share links to your favorite posts, as well.
We’ve done movie reviews, humorous pieces, and lots of serious stuff. This was my first posted piece of original material of any length, and is still one of my favorites.
There have been months that I haven’t posted very often. But I’ve always returned to blogging. When I’m truly honest and listen for God’s call on my life, I often suspect that the most important thing I’ll leave behind when I die will be a piece of text. That’s one of the factors that keeps me returning: I suspect that someday I’ll have something very meaningful to say, and I want to have a pre-cultivated platform ready for the endeavor.
Many of my recent posts have been like some of the first ones: someone’s funny video intead of the early off-beat web links. I’ve posted a lot of pictures, and I’m starting to get into original video. What kind of material would YOU like to see as we continue on into the future? Should I keep going with this blog?
Most of all, I’d like to thank all of you who read on a regular basis. After 414 posts in 22 categories with 184 tags, you’ve left 811 comments. If you’d never commented, I wouldn’t have continued blogging. Comments are like food to a blogger’s psyche: when you put up a blog post baring your soul, the worst response you can receive is an apathetic silence.
Can we make a deal going forward? If YOU don’t let my psyche starve, I’ll try to be as responsive as possible and post the kind of material YOU want to see. Let me know if you’ll agree to this deal by leaving a comment below.
Thanks for a great four years!