So this is the second week of doing both the 356 Photo Challenge and sticking to a posting routine on FamMijangos.com. It feels like I’m constanly having to think that I need to write more, edit pictures, playing catchup. At the same time, when I look at what I’m able to accomplish, I’m amazed that I’m able to do all this.
This process has also allowed me to see where I need to grow: better pictures, better stories, writing faster, editing faster. Every week is a sprint, I’m only able to stay ahead maybe a day or two.
I’m only posting on Mondays and Wednesday, sometimes I will post on Fridays, but only if I can (which is going to be hard). I am also doing a #TBT where I’ll post something on Facebook from a few years back.
Here are my images from the last week (there are 5 this week, because I haven’t taken one today.
I keep struggling with what to make of this blog, I know I want it to be my personal space. Where I come to think about what I do and where I improve. Over the break I feel that I want to improve in several aspects of blogging. I have seen an steady increase in views to my primary site: fammijangos.com
The year 2014, was the biggest year since I launched the site in 2012 with 2,261 views, and December the best month of all time with 600+ views. And it’s not like I want to become a blogger, but I do want to improve what I do, and how I do it.
The primary purpose of FamMijangos.com is to document our family’s history, a documentary of our familiy’s everyday life. Views do not mean higher meaning, but rather it says that I have become better at telling our story. I want to be a better writer, a story teller. If I ever have any chance of future generations of reading this story, then I have to tell a compelling story, both with words and images.
For this reason I’m calling 2015 the year of Blogging Kaizen, kaizen meaning continous improvement. I want to refine both my writen skills as well as my photography. So here is how intend to improve:
Writing
Post 2 times per week on FamMijangos.com (Monday and Wednesday)
Post on this blog every week (Friday), this blog is my meta blog about blogging 🙂
Goodreads challenge: 24 books. My goal is always to read more, I want to finally meet my goal of 24 books in the year.
Photography
#365PhotoChallenge I will take 1 picture everyday and post them on my weekly update
The Art of Photography vlog, I’ve been watching the AOP Video Blog, it is such a different thing for me, and I’m learning a lot.
