Favorite Blogs and Websites
- Managing Your Digital Life Dealing with and using all the electronic stuff we accumulate
- Photofocus Formerly TWIP… photographic news and reviews
The Strobist
THE place to go to to learn about lighting… Also a lot of info on making your own photo gear.
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Where are the posts? Or… Depression Sucks!
Well, theoretical readers (and I have Google Analytics, so I know what my traffic is like), this blog is somewhat like a ghost town lately… Why is that? Why should you invest your time in reading something that seems to get updated quarterly?
Well, despite my promises to the contrary, I’ve been slacking. It’s not from a lack of ideas; I have about a half dozen ideas for posts. It’s not for lack of time; I’m not living the life of a pro photographer, always on the go, shooting weddings and sporting events.
The truth is, I’ve been suffering from depression for a while, and I’ve barely been able to muster the will to get up to work in the morning, let alone do anything approaching being creative or productive.
This is an ongoing thing, and I’ve been getting help for it for a while, with only moderate success. I’m going to try some different things, because when the blackness seeps into my life, everything seems too hard to bother with, all my work seems worthless and crappy…
And there’s no way I can be a success (let alone make a living) with an attitude like that.

This is what it feels like sometimes