I am going to miss you 36Clicks, but you were just too high maintenance and I frankly did not have the time to deal with you. I still think the idea of a photoblog was great, I simply just do not have enough cycles to devote time to two blogs. What resulted was a half-baked photoblog that was never fully completed and less posts on this one.
So, 36Clicks will be retired and the Photograph of the Week will be coming back. The more things change, the more they stay the same…
For those of you who are new around here, I started a photoblog, 36 Clicks, this summer to create a better way to show my photos. Well, due to my involvement in the Current TV Viewpoints project, my blogging diminished significantly and my photoblogging came to a complete standstill.
Well, I have spent a lot of time to make the photoblog relevant again by seeding the blog with daily photos until the middle of December (at least). If you have yet to check out 36 Clicks and have a thing for photography, you may want to check it out. I will be doing my best to continue seeding the photoblog so that there will rarely be large dry spells.
Additionally, I am planning to take a break some time after the Viewpoints project is completed. I will be attempting to finally smooth out all the edges with the design and functionality of 36 Clicks during that time. Until then, I hope you put up with the photoblog as-is and perhaps even subscribe to the feed.
Courtesy of Russell GoughI had been wanting to do this for some time, I have finally picked up a wide-angle lens - and I decided to go really wide. Until picking this lens up, I had never shot with a wide-angle before other than my Canon XT’s 17-55 zoom kit lens… But that definitely does not count. If I was going to shoot with a wide-angle, I wanted it to be for my film Nikon F3 camera. After reading a great review, I chose the Nikon 20mm f4 over the Nikon 20mm f2.8. I am usually a sucker for wide apertures, but the extremely small size of the lens (seriously, the thing is tiny), its 52mm diameter and the renowned sharpness and low distortion of this lens sold me. I know that shooting in low light is going to be more difficult with this lens, but my recent switch to 400 ISO film will help that out.
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After a relatively brief but substantiative discussion with Kellie and a lot of thinking on my own, I have decided to shake things up a bit. I made the decision to write in a format that allowed a more steady stream of content to come in on a daily basis. That format has unfortunately sucked me dry while arguably adding very little to the quality of content on this blog. In my opinion, this led to a much dumber Some Random Dude. Sure, it updated frequently, but rarely were the updated truly inspiring.
All that being said, I feel there is a lot to be said about weekly features, regimen and structure for a blog. The audience knows what to expect and the constant content keeps them continually engaged. However, as a one person show, the number of posts per week definitely has an indirect relationship on the number of serious articles per month. If I could keep this format while keeping quality up, I would not think twice about doing so. However, there are only 24 hours in a day.
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I do not think many folks will argue that the content on this site has been subpar in the past few months. Sure, I have added a photoblog and Comment Love, but it retrospect, that really is not too significant for that amount of time. I have tons of articles in the queue that are half-written, my hope is those can be finished and published within the coming weeks. My congrats to Shaun Inman for making a truly powerful web statistics package – I just found it a little too powerful…
Once this site is out of beta, the entire project will be available for download. Check in periodically for updates.
