Time to shift focus
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Originally this blog was started as spin-off from my finnish blog (ylitalot.net), when I wanted to have english blog for ABC Wednesday, Photo Theme for Thursday and other weekly subjects. I also used this blog as a channel for posting photos from my photo of a week project to english speaking audience, which was probably mistake, because it created large number of articles, which had title and photography, but very little content in them.
On April 11, 2008, I changed focus a bit by changing tagline to ‘Photographs from Finland’ and defining that we would be primarily posting things about Finland. Unfortunately photoblogs niche is pretty much saturated and as a result from that, this blog never manage to attract real attention. Part of the blame also goes to fact that during last autumn, my setup on photo albums went through major shift on fall, when I moved photographs from home made solution to provided service, which caused all sort of extra workload to blog administration instead of writing new content.
During December, I sat down and did some soul searching and at the end decided that something has to be done. One of the first tasks was to define new scope and tagline for this blog. One of the first decisions was that there is no point to mention photographs in tagline, since every blog nowdays has at least some images. I also wanted to find niche, where I would be able to provide content on regular basis without overlapping too heavily with my other blogs (ylitalot.net, which has wide range of topics and taiji.ylitalot.net, which is focused on Taiji in Finland).
At the end, I decided to dedicate this blog to hiking. During next year, we will start going through most popular hiking routes in Finland and depending on how things go, I might post some stories about my trips to Iceland, Switzerland, etc.
Photograph: Trail marks in hiking trail from Thorsmörk to Skogar in Iceland.
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