Ormstown in black, a small pleasant country town in Quebec Monteregie.

 

Photos Daniel M: Lumix GX9 / G Vario 12-60mm F3.5-5.6 

Summer audimat temporary drop or the inevitable fall of the blog audience?

 Seeing the last numbers concerning this blog audience (especially since two years), I was wandering if it is an important indicator that the popularity of photo oriented Web blogs is now dropping into a lot more confidential follower cohort. Many have already told to the Web planet that the blog format is dead replaced by the vlog one, but I suspect that even the latter is now also in jeopardy. It may feel strange in regard of our era of never fulfilled communication appetite but it can be a strong alarm signal that people are less interested about anything that is excessing their close-range universe.

So, the question is there: do we simply ignore the recent tendency and continue to publish new posts in our normal rate, thing I have done in the last two years, or take this summer time to reflect what can be a productive Web implication for all the photo enthusiasms. Are we still interested to learn, to discuss and to share different thoughts about our surrounding world? A negative answer can be frightening. On the other side, I don't feel comfortable to speak of something that reflect in part my own interest as a blogger for almost ten years (December 2012) but as I am consulting others blogs over the years, we cannot disregard that declining trend all over the Web.

Blogs were a beautiful Web sharing formula that have offered nice opportunities for many good and highly interesting people to transmit their love of the photographic medium and have inspired many others to not only appreciated beautiful imagery but also to create their own. Now many have been substituted by fierce debates about the photo gear virtues in total disregard of the picture production itself. Just that is profoundly depressive and totally demotivating.

There is a lot of human issues that merit to be acknowledged and discussed more than photography in this world, but the problem exceeds largely this subject. It englobes about every interest you may want to share with other fellows and is questioning the endemic hate is populating the Web and the social media all over the planet. Is it an afterthought about our today state of humanity, we cannot be sure, but it is at least very concerning...

Photos Daniel M: Lumix G95 / G Vario 12-60mm & G Vario 100-300mm II