Hi! Welcome to the Joshontybee Blog. Thank you for taking the time to check this out. This is a sort of new experience for me. I’m not used to putting my thoughts out there on the internet, just my photos. I want to post once every 2 weeks, maybe once a month. Haven’t decided which yet.
I have posts planned for all sorts of topics. Ranging from “Tips To Make Your Photo Session Even Better” to “Ranking Local Tybee Restaurants: A Tier List”. My goals with this are to help those vacationing to Tybee, give photography advice, and to provide some entertainment for both the readers and myself.
This isn’t my first attempt at blogging. I wrote several blog articles a few years ago and it wasn’t a success. I didn’t know what I was doing, and even worse I didn’t know WHY I was doing it. I heard that blogs help SEO (search engine optimization). I heard that every real photographer had one. And I heard that it would help make extra money. The problem is that those aren’t good reasons to blog. Over a couple of months my motivation went down further and further until I quit. Now, years later, I know that it doesn’t have to be that way.
Blogging is like exercising regularly. If you do it just because you want to look fit then you won’t keep it up. You have to do it because you want to live a healthy lifestyle. My blogging version of a healthy lifestyle is simple: I love my work, I love Tybee, and most of all I love writing. Admittedly most of my writing experience has been sprawling fantasy epics for Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, but still. This time around my blog will be written because I love what I do and I love putting my thoughts on paper.
The next entry should be posted sometime between 2 weeks and a month from now. With the busy season over now I have more free time, but I want to write at least a few months worth of posts in advance. Every photo I use will be my own and that takes time. Plus I want to create a nice buffer in case I start experiencing burnout down the road (burnout is definitely going to be a future topic to write about). Looking forward to this writing journey and see you in a few weeks!
- Josh