If you build it... - and Episode 33 of Understanding Photography with Kim Ayres

I've been wondering about this blog.

Since I began the Understanding Photography with Kim Ayres podcast at the beginning of the first Covid-19 Lockdown, without fail I have written a post on Wednesday mornings and embedded the video of the previous night's episode.

Sometimes the posts have been about a specific aspect of the podcast, or about something that went wrong, or sometimes they have gone off on a complete tangent only loosely related to an idea triggered by it.

But coming up with fresh content week in week out is getting more and more difficult.

The podcasts themselves are relatively future proof, so long as people send me their images to critique. Even if many of the solutions are repeated – shutter speed, use of diagonals or backlight etc – each case is unique. So the content is infinite and yet always fresh.

These blog posts, however, are mostly a reflection of my state of mind – and that can be somewhat repetitive.

Especially in these Covid times, which so often have such a Groundhog Day feel to them.

How do you write something new when the world keeps repeating itself?

You might get one post out of pointing it out, but after that you're just repeating yourself, yourself...

It might help if I knew there was anybody reading it.

I do get the occasional comment, but it's pretty rare. Blogger statistics tell me each post gets anything from 50 to 150 views, but a view is not necessarily a read. A click and a click back after glancing at the headline counts as a view, even though it wasn't consumed.

So I start wondering - is it worth the time and energy (and these things are in such short supply when you live with ME/CFS) to keep going with it?

There is so much marketing advice out there that tells you to write a blog to help build a following. But I've had this blog for over 15 years and just because I built it doesn't mean anyone's looking at it.

Bleargh.

Feeling tired and low this morning, and therein also lies part of the problem – when you feel crap, it's difficult to think with enthusiasm and positivity.

So to the one, possibly two, possibly no people who actually read this – ignore me, I'm just having a bad day.

Take a look at the podcast below – I was much more on form last night...

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0.00 - What's coming up
6.35 - Amber on a white pony in a bluebell wood.
16:35 - How to get the most out of the Critique section of the podcasts
22:00 - Critique of images submitted to the Facebook Group, "Understanding Photography with Kim Ayres" 1:24:09 - Coming up next week
1:25:30 - End

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