How’d this happen? What took so long?
I started this blog on 7 December, 2004, a few days after I brought home my first digital camera (a Canon 20D). I wanted a public means to document this interval of my transiton from film. As happens with these things, the blog became a place for my travel dispatches, my birding stories, my rants, as well as for my continuing discoveries as a professional photographer in the digital realm.
For most of the interval, my visitor stats showed a modest readership between 10 and 30 a day. I knew most of them. Then, about a month ago, the numbers shot up. I started getting several comments a day, from people I didn’t know. I looked at the stats: I am drawing about two thousand visitors a day now.
Someone linked to me. Someone with a lot of traffic. Whoever you are, thank you.
Well, I found you through a link on Mike Johnston's "The Online Photographer". I've been back daily since, so I'm one of your new stats.
Posted by: Mark Bridgers | April 12, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Yes me too, it was Mike Johnson. I've added you to my RSS feed and have been enjoying your blog.
BK
Posted by: photoburner | April 12, 2006 at 11:53 AM
Mike Johnson is the man. I've been enjoying his stuff for a couple of years. Now I can enjoy your point of view also. It's a wonderful time to be a photographer!(Or a reader.)
Posted by: Scott Lane | April 12, 2006 at 12:04 PM
Yep, I found you on Mike Johnson's site as well. Have you bookmarked now. I enjoy your writing.
Posted by: Earl | April 12, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Mike Johnson for me too. Plus, I'm a nascent photographer in Seattle making your blog even more enjoyable.
Posted by: Gerard van Wesep | April 12, 2006 at 03:44 PM
Mike Johnson here too
Posted by: | April 12, 2006 at 05:08 PM
Yep. Mike for me as well.
Posted by: Roger Suppona | April 12, 2006 at 07:22 PM
Mike for me too.
Posted by: Paul McEvoy | April 13, 2006 at 06:59 AM
If you used google analytics, sitemeter, or another similar stats service, you could see where all your visitors are coming from, what search terms they used if they came via a search engine, how many pages they looked at, which posts are most popular, etc. I don't know how much info blogger provides, but it can't be much.
Congrats on the traffic, though!
Posted by: Josh Wand | April 13, 2006 at 08:38 AM
Well, I posted a link to your site on photo.net concerning your trading down to the 5D...here:
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Fw2t
Some people freaked out, however, and proceeded to flame me, as you can read.
So my seemingly harmless reference to your entry may have pointed some visitors your way...for good or for bad!
Posted by: Jim Tardio | April 13, 2006 at 10:31 AM
Mike, too.
Posted by: Joe Decker | April 13, 2006 at 11:19 AM
Wow. What a response rate! Thanks everyone. I checked out Jim's thread on Photo.net, and it confirmed for me why I stay out of those neighborhoods. There's quite the troll action in that forum.
The one reason I might have held onto the Mark II is the weatherproofing. I'll miss that.
Posted by: Doug Plummer | April 13, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Mike sent me too.
Posted by: Paul | April 13, 2006 at 12:01 PM
I've bookmarked you after being refered by Mike Johnston as well.
Funny, I've got the same stats now that you used to have.
Posted by: dazedgonebye | April 13, 2006 at 02:26 PM
I'm one of those new guys. It has been fun reading your stuff.
Posted by: Eric Hancock | April 13, 2006 at 06:26 PM
Mike Johnston for me. I found Mike because of the blurb in Layers magazine.
Posted by: Dorothy | April 14, 2006 at 11:50 AM