Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Nothing to talk about - is life at a stand still?

This is what I'm thinking about this weekend... after all, it would be nice to have entries into any of my blogs on a continuous basis - but if I can't think of anything to enter, does this mean I've had a week go by with nothing to discuss? Nothing new, nothing meaningful and worth sharing?

Or am I simply not trying hard enough?

For one, what did I do differently? Well... I had to do some house-cleaning of my emails - which got me to discover some long forgotten photos... roughly almost a year old, of me with some friends. Do I post these? Its not exactly chronological. I also discovered (while housecleaning some CDs) old pictures that could go well with some of my older articles - should I add these as well? What's stopping me?

For one, this blog... and the others I would possibly imagine, show a work-in-progress, which means I have a chronology of my lessons learned. After all, this was one reason I came up with my blogs - to get to learn about how to do these things... and later, enhance them. So, do I enhance everything? Thus possibly losing my chronology records? Shouldn't I improve things as I learn, but maybe have a side comment about what changed so I'd have both? Will others care? Do I have too many hang-ups? Cause this is starting to read like I have one.

As to the hang-ups... no. Its just that my sense of preserving things for posterity is battling my want to practice continuous improvement. So how do I handle this? Simple... why can't I have both? I've created another 'wanderingmind' blog - and I was thinking that it would be a mirror of this... in case this goes down for whatever reason (my business continuity side thought to do this), I'd have a sort of off-site (blogspot) back-up. But... and here's the 'raison d'etre' of my having the mirror site, I can use said site as a polished version of what I have here. This way, I get to preserve my original site, as is... warts and all, if you will, and still practice continuous improvement by showing a more streamlined site in the other location. So where is this site?

Its... http://minutiaemusings.wordpress.com

Aside from house-cleaning of my email; a task that can't be finished in a day it seems, I also stumbled upon - actually tried searching for, a few sites / blogs that had something to do with photography in general, and digital photography in particular. So as you can see, I'm trying to get more knowledge to even better myself on said topic. Here are two sites I've thought about joining... they won't be the last, mind you... but they seem to be great as a sources for articles for starters like me.

http://www.photographyblog.com
http://www.ephotozine.com

So there you have it... I was actually able to talk about something after all.