I’m pleased to announce that I have been able to resume my affiliate relationship with B&H after a short “intermission” for the past few months caused by some changes to California tax laws.
Affiliate relationships benefit the vendors and those of use who operate blogs. I only accept affiliation with companies that I would deal with or actually do deal with myself, and B&H is definitely on that list for me. When you make a B&H purchase through a link on my blog, while the purchase price is the same for you, a small percentage of each sale is returned to me for the referral.*
I continue to have an affiliate relationship with Think Tank Photo, the manufacturer of innovative and high quality camera bags and related products. Their Airport Acceleration bag is my primary tool for carrying my equipment.
Thanks,
Dan
* In case you wondered how much income the ads produce, here is my full disclosure: I generally earn less than the costs of running and hosting the site. The ad income helps me reduce these costs – and for that I’m grateful! :-)
… from eight days in the Yosemite back-country, doing photography with a great group of five like-minded friends. I’m currently transferring nearly 800 images from cards to my computer so that post-processing can commence!
After returning from New York City last week, I took on the daunting task of reviewing about eight years worth of raw files. (Anyone who has tried probably just exclaimed, “yikes!,” or something much less polite… :-)
I’m _very_ conservative when it comes to deleting raw files, figuring that it is better to end up keeping files I don’t need than to find out that I trashed something that could have been useful. In addition, as I do an annual review of the previous year’s raw files every winter, I invariably discover a few good photographs that I had somehow passed over or failed to notice at the time I made them.
As non-fun as the process of reviewing tens of thousands of files can be, there are some worthwhile results, including:
I do delete a fair number of just plain useless files that have been cluttering up my hard drive. I figure that if it wasn’t interesting a the time I took it, wasn’t interesting during my annual raw file review, and still isn’t interesting a few years later… it may be time to get rid of it.
I find some (to me, anyway) real treasures that I had overlooked to misunderstood or simply forgotten at the time. At some point I’ll write more about why this happens, but it is not unusual to fail to understand how a photograph works right after making it. But when viewed with some temporal distance, some photographs turn out to surprise me by how successful they might be. So one of the pleasures of this otherwise daunting task is the discovery of such images.
I relive experiences related to the making the photographs. When I view my own photographs, the visual imagery is always associated with non-visual experiences that were part of the process of making the photo. When I “rediscover” some of these older image – even some that turn out not to be photographically worthy of sharing – I also rediscover those experiences that I had forgotten and all sorts of memories return. (Among those in this batch are many of my family – especially fun during the week when our youngest son moved off to a different city of get his first job.)
I learn things about my own photographic growth that might not be apparent when only considering the most current work. For example, I’m often struck by how certain themes and ways of seeing that I’ve come to recognize more recently were already present in work done quite a while ago. Understanding this is important, I think, to developing self-awareness as a photographer.
… you need to know that this creates problems with the display of images I post, and I am going to stop using that method to post news of updates to my photography blog. There are some formatting issues with Networked Blogs re-posts that I cannot easily resolve, and because they involve photographs – the main content of this blog! – that turns out to be a deal-stopper. I think that the NetworkedBlogs service is a great idea and I understand that it is working well for many people… just not for me.
If you want to ensure that you see news of the daily updates at this blog, and you have been using NetworkedBlogs to handle that, I hope that you’ll stick with me! There are a number of alternate ways to get my daily (and sometimes more than daily) photographs and other commentary:
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