Single-Serving Photo

I try not to gush too frequently over the changes and updates that I make to this blog. Especially when they don’t really impact you, my dear readers. Occasionally, though, there is a change that I feel I should explain so that you know what’s happening and what I’m up to. This is one of those times.

You’ve probably already noticed the sharing buttons at the bottom of every post. I am trying out the ShareThis platform so that you can quickly and easily send anything you see here to your social network(s) of choice, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ (which I adore).

If you aren’t on any social networks, or your friends aren’t, you can click the very first button, the “share” button, and send a link via normal old e-mail. Yes, we have reached the point in our technological growth where e-mail is both “normal” and “old.”

In any case, I merely wanted to point out that this new feature is in no way a scam or trick of any kind. I will not gain access to your Facebook Wall or be able to read your Google+ Stream, I will only be able to see statistics on how many people shared things and how many people clicked on your shared items, which is helpful for me to see what’s popular and what I should write more about.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

On September 25th, 2010—embarrassingly for me, nearly a month ago now—Single-Serving Photo turned five. What started as an exhibitionist experiment to see if I could force myself to take at least one decent photograph every day turned into a kind of monument to my own photography obsession and my fondness for sharing and learning together with the Internet.

Looking back on these five years, there are some particular posts that stand out in my mind. Many of them, as you might imagine, are irrelevant to most of my visitors. If only there was some way that I could find out which articles the Internet loves the most…

Fortunately, since mid-2007, I have been using Google Analytics to record and analyze the traffic on this site. I thought, since this is sort of an anniversary of the blog, it would be appropriate to share some of the gems from these last four years that I have on record.

Without further ado, the Super Single-Serving Wrap-Up! (more…)

Believe it or not, it has been precisely three years since the very first post on this blog. It started out as a place for me to post experimental photos and has since evolved into a great platform for sharing the information and inspiration that I come across all the time.

To all of you out there reading this now, thank you! I wouldn’t write all of these articles if nobody read them, and your occasional feedback has been really great, whether praise or critique.

If any of you have fond memories to share or ideas for where you’d like to see this blog go in the future, as always, your comments are more than welcome. It’s been a pretty great three years; stick around, there’s more to come.