Beginning Your Own Photography Blog is Fun

By Lauren Kay

Digital cameras are everywhere you look these days! Using electronic photographs instead of the traditional film photos is cheap, there is no wasted paper to end up in the garbage and they take up virtually no physical space at all! It seems like almost everyone has a cell phone camera these days that can take images of just about anything in a matter of moments.

There are lots of different ways to let others enjoy your photos, from digital picture frames to printing them out to keeping them on your mobile phone. Whether you're a pro photographer or an amateur camera user you'll still like the ease of digital photography. And what's better than just taking lots of digital pictures is the fun way you can display them to others.

One of the newest ways to share your images to others is by publishing a photo blog. A "web log" or blog is a website that allows an photographer to publish instant updates onto World Wide Web about just about any subject imaginable. A photography blog can include the digital photos you took on any specific day or trip. You can add your written thoughts about your photos and you can inform people about why you snapped the images and what was happening when you took them.

To begin a photo blog you only need to find some no cost blogging software and pick a blog name. Most blogging sites are easy to get started with. You just write your comments out in a post, insert your digital photographs from your computer and the blogging software pretty much does the rest. When you are happy with a post you "publish" it and everyone around the world can instantly view it!

Getting commends from visitors to your blog is part of the excitement of putting your images online. With a photo web log you can not only allow others to see your photos but you can also allow visitors to write comments on your posts. If you allow comments on your photos then you can also discover what other people like and do not like about your photos.

Remember not to worry about always composing a post that's going to make other people happy. It's your photo blog and you can put up photos of whatever you want. You can post images of a local tourist attraction one day and then post images of some grass in your back yard the next day. Just try to have fun with the ability to spread your electronic photographs so easily with your own blog!

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