I do quite like photo blogging, see The view from the office, but at the same time I really couldn’t face another social network and I kind of enjoy doing it anonymously* or at least without much thought or the pressure I feel if I’m putting my name to the images.
I signed up for Instagram a while back, admittedly under my own name, but I didn’t use it very much other than uploading the occasional image I’d taken that I liked or that marked something specific. I didn’t post any descriptions or tags, just liked having a photoblog I didn’t have to think deeply about. I also enjoyed the additional task of making a square composition (Something that has now been completely ruined by the changes made to the platform).
I’d forgotten that sometime ago it was bought by facebook and while I had chosen not to link the two it seems facebook looked at my details it has, decided to put two and two together, and invited all my facebook friends to follow me there.
I’m still resolutely not adding twenty hashtags to each and every post so I refuse to fully play their game but yes, I’m coming out! I am on instagram (very occasionally). Find me @chrishathway.
So to start here is a photo from Brimham Rocks, which were resolutely more impressive and enjoyable than the National Trust website suggested – if you are in the area, do go check them out
(I should warn any potential visitors that its £7 on the car park and theres no change machine. Or you could just risk it…)
*I can’t tell you about my other photo blogs, well, because…
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