No pivot in view
1st a disclaimer. I have no intention of pivoting. I do not want to turn my blog into a vlog. I have the equipment I think but zero interest. Too many hours of my life spent behind the viewfinder of a standard camera to want to try something new at my age. However I watched a video today of some people who have reached great milestones in work on YouTube and I wonder at least a little if what it would have been like to have gone in that direction. You must know that I have been doing this format for 20 years now. Every day. I do not want to think about how many bad photos I could have taken during that time. Remember, I grew up in a world where we said that every photo was worth 1000 words. Or as I put it four days of blog. It doesn’t take long to build up a suitable library. Because I also grew up in a world where film was expensive. We tended to think that 36 photos was a big deal. Moving along watching these people talk about their experience on YouTube leaves me wondering about how I would have gone to make my life into something more interesting. I have become very accustomed with the view outside my window and I probably would have shown that over and over and over again period. After all what is out there might seem similar but every day is really quite different. Buy now we could have watched several generations of the local foxes passed through the yard. And so many small birds. I live in a flyway and we buy bags of bird seed and believe me it all gets eaten. Otherwise I will be living in a jungle of sunflowers. I think. I seem to remember having learned that those same seeds were unable to reproduce adult plants. Not going to experiment though because I have become lazy. Also if I was going to have flowers I would have them by now. The people doing vlogs get my congratulations because you don’t simply turn on a camera and create content that others want to watch. A bit like this blog I suppose although I have stopped looking at the viewing numbers years ago. A friend pointed out just how easy it would be to game those results.
