One of the great joys of having my own website is being able to control every aspect of how I share my work. This extends to my blog posts, of course, where I am free to say, pretty much whatever I want, not expecting any kind of pushback or really any response at all. At the same time I do keep track of the visitor traffic and engagement of this website. It’s fascinating to me to see the analytics come in and notice that I have visitors scattered all over the world. The analytics also show me what contact drew the visitor to the website in the first place, and that is always interesting to see whether it was a snarky quasi-gear review post or specific body of work or a deep dive blog post about a specific photographer.

Still, the analytics only goes so far and I really don’t know who it is visiting the website (unless of course you leave a comment for me which I always appreciate receiving and try my best to respond to each one that comes in). So this is a simple exercise in trying to connect with each of you may be a little bit more.

If you’re reading this and are so inclined: drop me a comment and say hello and tell me who you are and where you’re from; maybe even how you discovered this post or this website in the first place. The world is big and anonymous, and at the same time, small and personal; so I am putting this out in the world to see who is out there and who has stumbled upon my website. “Who are you?”: a fair enough question, no?