(Blog -Smog: Give me a break!) Here's what most 'photographers' blog entries consist of (names and wording have been slightly altered to protect the innocent) WARNING: may not be suitable for small children as one cuss word was used:
Wow! What a great photoshoot and such a beautiful couple here they are holding hands and here they are smiling for the camera. I want to thank them for being so great and I want to thank the location for letting us shoot there and life is wonderful. She's beautiful, I'm beautiful, etc.
Then their next new entry says: Today I want to announce that I am incredible because I have been chosen as the low bidder for a big famous project (or I volunteered to do it for free but need to make it sound like I was one of the chosen few) and am so excited they trust me to do such an important job I hope I can please them even though I will be losing my shirt on the deal and won't be able to afford to fix anything if there is a problem because I didn't charge enough, but maybe I will transfer more money from my IRA into my business account so I can keep my business going.
Another typical entry: I won another photo contest by the society of left-handed, one-eyed, infared film-only photographers who use modified Pentax lenses and only shoot on the 2nd Tuesday of each month after 6pm, this proves I am the best!
And one of my favorites: While having lunch with a PR person (my neighbor) she told me to really talk myself up on this next entry and make it sound like I am really busy and excited although today's shoot was of my own children because I've got nothing else going but I plan on using them as samples on my website and entering them in contests because they are the cutest kids in the world but I want people to think this was a highly paid assignment.
The next entry 3-weeks later: I have been on assignment in the Bahamas on the beach taking photos of the children of corporate executives, they may end up in a national newletter! I'm also shooting wildlife & beach shots. (Only my closest friends know that I am really at my husbands Annual National Sales Convention for his work. He gave me the assignment of laying out on the beach and taking photos with the other mothers while he is golfing. It's a good thing he has such a high-paying job otherwise I couldn't pretend to be a legitimate photographer nor could I have afforded this expensive camera! Isn't life grand! Opps, don't kick sand on my new camera!)
Continue to repeat the same entries over and over only change the names dates, photos and minor details.
OR as the youth post on 'their space': Stardate 2008, it's 2 am, another sleepless night, my emotions are out-of-control, I am torn over Brad & Jenn, etc. etc. etc..... BLOG - SMOG, give me a break!
First off who has the time to read every whinny detail of someone's hourly highs and lows brought on by puberty, self-medicating or some other psychotic disorder. Secondly, my ego isn't so overly inflated that I really believe another persons mundane life will somehow be benefited by reading my drivel! (but you do have to credit the internet --thank you Al Gore ;-) -- for some very entertaining reading if you just can't sleep and have got nothing better to do!)
Then there are those photographers who take their BLOG very seriously and think everyone is trying to keep track of their life and career so they use it as a public relations outlet hoping one day to post detailed information about their latest photo shoot with up-and-coming child star 'Bonnie' who will eventually be featured on Oprah ultimately leading to the mentioning of their name on national television which will spontaneously combust into (queue my music) a fabulous "I've arrived, if you could see me now" party culminating in making all the people who ever held them down regret that they didn't kiss their ass, leading to forever financial fortunes!
Sometimes I read between the lines and it says: "I am so full of myself, I am so important, everyone wants to know everything I am doing every minute of every day, if it weren't for my blog writing. . . the whole world would come to a stand still!" I love the commercial where the husband is bragging about the latest happening that he is going to post to his blog so the whole world will know and his wife says "what, so your mother can read it?"
Or maybe they have been mislead by their webmaster who told them they can get higher rankings by rambling or repeating key words? Or maybe their psychiatrist requires a daily post? Currently I just don't have the time for it but some nights I get indigestion and type really stupid stuff on the internet just like this! (so does that makes me a hypocrite?)
