Spring is coming.
Just a few announcements and explanations between stories. I'd like to welcome all the visitors from around the world who've been showing up here lately (from Lonely Planet, DPReview & a couple of other sites). It gives me great pleasure to know that someone in Madagascar or Estonia is reading this. Whatever country you're from, thanks for looking.
Contributors: My wanderings have been fairly extensive, but only across a small fraction of this planet. Can we expand the scope and breadth of this weblog? I'm asking people to send me their own photo-centric travel essays. Do you have a sharp eye? Travel can mean many things. Your own street could be deeply fascinating to a reader on the other side of the world.
I like to keep the wording brief, about 300-500 words. The pictures are the thing. We all have great stories about the gorilla who chased us down the mountain or the disturbed guy on the airplane who got naked and started singing opera at 37,000 feet but I'm not looking for that here. Witty is good, but try to keep the text informational and explanatory. I can handle the editing - making sure it all fits and flows with maps and spacing. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested. And, of course, you'll get credit, a link, and you'll retain all rights to your images.
Advertising: You'll notice the ads in the right hand column. Not too offensive, I hope. They've been pushed down the page so that when you open the site they're not immediately visible. I put them there not too make money (believe me, it's just pennies a day), but to learn a little bit about how internet commerce works. The program allows me a glimpse at who's looking at my blog. I get an area code breakdown for North America and a country by country listing for the rest of the world. I find this rivetting.
Comments: I get very few comments; I'd love to see more. Whether it's just to say hello or correct something I've written, please click the Comments tab. Perhaps you have a different perspective on a place I've profiled or just something funny to say. Go ahead. Let's see some conversation.
Thanks again, readers. New travelogue coming very soon.
Your humble content-provider,
Mike
Flowers shot with Olympus c5050Z, 2004.
