I was just curious this morning to see my various blog posts over time.  I started using Zenfolio in 2009, but I didn't start posting a lot of photos until 2012 when I started a Photo-A-Week project which transformed into a PAD project, but with many pictures a day. That started in 2013 and that is when I really started blogging.

PAD FEB 27-4 2012I was playing around with my tripod, lighting, and taking selfies

It was pretty consistent in the beginning with me showing various challenges that I gave myself or that were suggested by a group that I was in on Flickr with weekly challenges.  That weekly group was inspired by Andre Gallant, a Canadian photographer and creative photographic workshop guru.  I learned a lot about various aspects of photography from him from Minimalism to Wabi Sabi to creating interesting composites.  All of this fueled my photography and my early blog postings.

In 2015, I started a group called Photography as a Spiritual Practice and my blog postings became fewer rather than greater.  I spent a lot of time putting monthly challenges together using a Prepare, Do, Reflect approach.  Most of my reflections were done not on a blog but in Pages.

But occasionally I would add blog postings and embed photos.  Especially when I was traveling or I had some learning from a photo workshop.  

This photo is part of a weekly challenge called....In Memory Of....and its memories of my piano lessons and teachers of the past.

PAD Nov 18 In memory of the lessons of the past

Lately, however, I've been only posting a couple of times a year.  And maybe, not at all.

Reviewing my blog postings, however, gave me another perspective on my photography and what I see, how I see, how I process, what I take into a more creative mode.

But then the pandemic and my travels changed.  Now it was to find the vaccine, somewhere close.

At the Kress Center after my vaccine and waiting my 30 minutes before heading home

It also revealed how the pandemic influenced my photography through my frequent walks around home or to parks that were within 90 minutes of where I live.  Or, walkways that are only a mile away and I can take pictures of the Eagles on a blue sky day!

 I didn't write much about my walks, but I have lots of wordless galleries devoted to my walks.  I just have to remember to restore any walk that is greater than 14 months and then view and remember and respond the next day!

These frequent walks were what I reviewed at breakfast each morning.  Or, I would go back and see when my extended family got together.  Or, review the galleries from a photo workshop.  As I think about this, my galleries in Zenfolio are really a part of my life, my visual memories.  Whether it be during the pandemic, vacation, work related travels, photo workshops, conferences, or just viewing the world around me.  

I do so enjoy reviewing my galleries of the past....