Looking back at my 2022 photo output, I realized that I’m
spread over a bunch of places, and probably not serving any of them well. These include:
Lsquared Imaging: My “primary” blog. If you’re reading this post, you know this
one. I’m pretty sure I started L^2 in
the fall of has been around since at least August of 2004, and was a
continuation from a personal page at AOL (remember AOL?). Only 76 posts in 2022, and many of them were
not photo related. But hey, almost 19
years!
Happenstance
Photography: My “other” blog. Around since at least July of 2000. IIRC, I originally started this to focus on
my microstock experience, but in late 2012 it had evolved into just photos, and
just B&W photos. Only 34 posts in
2022, down from 78 in 2021.
Instagram – lsqrd42: I actually started this account in spring of
2014, but it languished for a long time.
These days it is probably where I am most active. Once they updated so you could update from a
PC, my activity picked up. I like the
immediacy of IG, and frequently post phone-photos that don’t end up elsewhere. I had 407 posts to lasqd42 in 2022, some of
which included more than one photo. But
only 210 followers at the end of the year.
365project – Larry
L: I started this site as a “photo-a-day
project in January 2015. It’s just
another place I post photos for the past several years. But I like the community and the challenges. I posted 228 photos here in 2022
Betterphoto – Larry Lawhead: I was pretty active here back in the 2003 –
2009 time frame, but quit for a while. I
rejoined in December 2021, though. This
site is good for it’s contests, which provide nice recognition. Thy also host my website. I posted 158 photos to BP last year.
Lawheadphoto.com: Started in December 2021, this is my photo
website. It’s hosted through Betterphoto. I’m sad to say that it has been rather
stagnant, I don’t think I’ve updated it in 5+ months. I’ve never gotten any meaningful feedback through
the site, don’t have any indication how much traffic it gets, and haven’t been
thrilled with the template I’m using. One
of my goals for 2023 is to resurrect this effort.
Facebook Groups – I do post photos all along to my Facebook
page, but nothing concerted. I do belong
to a couple of photo groups, but I’ve not successfully “clicked” with any of
them. That was part of a goal to find a local community. I need to decide on one (maybe 2) and put
more effort into it. These include: Midwest Photographic Society,
Riverbend
Photography Group, St
Louis Photography Group and Alton Area Photography
Group.
Then there’s Quilt Shops and Photo Ops, a little something
my wife and I started ~3 years ago.
There’s a web page, an Instagram and a Facebook page. But those have been quite stagnant over the
past 2 years, and I’m not sure what we want to do with thise. So I won’t include links.
Some other past or stagnant things include:
The World In Black And White: This was a blog I was invited to join, with a
limited group of people (25 I think) posting photos. It pretty much died after the moderator left,
the last post was fall of 2019. I had quit
participating well before that, and deleted all my photos from there. The blog still exists,
though.
Microstock: I participated
in several microstock sites in the between 2004 and 2009. I think I was in 6 sites at one point,
through the years, that’s evolved to just 2 (Getty and Adobe). Even though I haven’t posted anything to them
in 14 years, I still get a rare (small) check.
I should probably close them, the income aren’t worth the trouble (1099’s). And while microstock was an interesting
experience, I have no interest in plunging back in.
