Blogs and Google Reader

Do you read a lot of blogs?

I do! It is what keeps me in shape with my photography, especially during down time here and there. I would like to spend more time reading, and finding blogs, but keeping track of them was so difficult.

Now that I have been using Google’s “Reader” web application, I am able to keep track of the blogs that I am interested in, and even include blogs that I feel would be important down the road! I can even share only specific feeds that you find interesting! This can be helpful for bloggers like me to share with you how I have been inspired to improve in different techniques. I am currently keeping track of 24 blogs, and the list is constantly growing! The majority of the blogs are related with photography. Others include technology, teaching, humor, Photoshop, friends, finances, and more!

So, what is the reason behind this post? You may be asking that since Google Reader isn’t about photography. Honestly it does! Blogs brings dynamic information straight from the source!

Have you ever went up to a local photographer that works in a certain demographic and asked for advice? I have, it was quite a humbling experience. The whole, “I don’t want to teach my competition,” is the only response that I received, and a link to a web page created by photographers that like doing things, “the old ways.” More power to them, they are great photographers! Which is why I contacted them. But in this day and age, if you just sit comfortably in your studio doing senior photos and family shots, you’ll still make money, but doing the same pictures day after day, years after years, will eventually leave you thinking what else you could be doing.

If you are interested in becoming a better photographer, even if you feel comfortable with your photography, if you haven’t jumped on the blogging bandwagon, you are definitely missing out! There are so many excellent and VERY successful photographers out there that are willing to teach their “competition” to help build them as better photographers always thinking one-step ahead. Many that keep my attention are those who produce professional results with minimal equipment and less production costs!

So, if you are interested in blogs, then their feeds should be your new best friend! I had not used them until recently when I began reading blogs on photography, and it just kind of spread from there. Now I use them every day! Any web site that has content that can be updated like a newspaper or blog should have an RSS or ATOM feed available to help capture, and manage the content of the blog. You can look for the little orange feed icon, and go from there!

So, if you are interested in blogging, let me know, and we’ll get you setup! Here is a link to Google Reader, and my feed for this blog, and my Google Reader shared items feed! You can right click my feed links, and go to "Copy Link Location" to add to your Google Reader account.

Side note: Yes, the picture is my roommate Shaphan wearing a tiny denim jacket for a video we were shooting that we still have not completed making fun of Enrique Iglesias. Someday, that video will be completed!