A photographer in Minneapolis
Google “photographing hummingbirds” and you’ll read about fast shutter speeds and high ISOs, and see flash and strobe setups that look like NASA technology, with multiple lights, remote triggers, sensors, reflectors, diffusers, backgrounds. Is all that really necessary?
For about 2 years now, I’ve tried to get Google to index my 700+ photos on Smugmug (and blogged about it, starting here.). At the start, I had 38 photos indexed. Today, after learning a few things about SEO, creating a blog, and jumping through lots of hoops, I have exactly 10. I can’t convey the taste of failure in print – but this is what it looks like:
I walk the Minneapolis skyways a lot, and had this concept in my head for a while: city street lights, wildly unfocused, through raindrops on glass.
Your hard drive crashes – you turn to that expensive NAS you so wisely installed as a backup – and find it’s empty, wiped out by a malicious hacker. It’s happened. But it can’t, if your storage has an air gap around it.
In a series of posts starting here, I’ve related my efforts to get Google to index my SmugMug photo gallery. It’s time for another update: basically, Google seems to have just pulled that cord that lets the hot air out of my balloon. I’m going down.
