Digital photography, gear, wilderness treks, captivating nature images, internet, blogs, recognition – only some of many hurdles awaiting diligent photographers who establish an internet presence to sell their wares. Dramatic images are a piece of fine art reflecting the change and growth in one’s passion. Getting nature’s images before the buying public is quite a chore – yet it seems 2009 is Blog Explosion Year.
What’s a blog? It’s a method of maintaining a daily diary on the web, complete with images, feelings, workshops, and event notices for individual (or groups of) photographers.
At first, this blog explosion was subliminal. Reading blogs, searching for a new reality in troubling times, I finally began to notice blogs whose first post was only in January, 2009. Yes, several good blogs were out there before. But, there is a strong move from web sites and static galleries to daily blog posts, new points of view, and an expanding nature photographer’s gallery and very active blogosphere.
Let’s call a new blog movement – in this case, searching for marvelous fine art nature images - Planeteers! After all, The Three Musketeers fought for liberty, equality, fraternity… If you like to see beautiful nature photography – why not find a way to watch nature photographer’s daily growth. Your elevating reward – a daily dose of classic beauty from all parts of our planet. If you have WiFi, it’s simply like traversing our planet in seconds.
Nature Photographers Online publishes 1-2 page short essays with nature photos from field contributors – here are the archives. Read those essays, search out each contributor’s gallery, then take a look at the blogrolls for those who have blogs. A blogroll is a list of ‘buddies’ – those guys or gals (eminent or otherwise) who pique your continuing interest in nature.
Pretty soon – you’ve become a Planeteer; beyond that, you’ve begun to accumulate your own list of nature experiences. You can do this whenever – a few minutes at a time or simply emerge yourself in beauty.
If you want to follow Pathway’s method – become a Planeteer - surf nature by taking a look at our dynamic Around Our Planet in 80 ms…
Our next blog will illustrate how Planeteering has already provided a new, early spring nature sunset arch venue for dramatic shots to replace people-filled, jaded shots of Mesa Arch at Canyonlands…