[STORY]
There’s something mildly absurd about having over 22,000 photos and still feeling like you have nothing to post.
I’ve been taking photos for a long time. Long enough to build up a Lightroom catalogue that feels less like a library and more like a digital attic. You open it, and instead of inspiration, you get overwhelmed.
The hardest part isn’t taking the photos. It’s choosing.
When you have eight slightly different versions of the same shot, each one feels like it deserves a trial. Then comes the editing. I care about lighting. I care about tone. I care about quality. I would rather share one strong image than 10 average ones.
But perfection is a funny thing. It starts as a standard and quietly becomes a roadblock.
Over the years, I’ve rebuilt my website more times than I’d like to admit. Photography blog. Portfolio. Redesign. Restart. Repeat. This time, I’m taking a different approach.
I’m building a hybrid.- Portfolio galleries for the best of the best.
- A photography blog for current work, experiments, and images I simply find interesting.
- A personal blog for everything else rattling around in my head.
The big shift, though, isn’t the design. It’s the pace.
A friend told me something simple: Just one per week.
One post per week. That’s it.
Not five. Not a full archive rebuild. Not a heroic sprint through 22,000 images. Just one.
It sounds almost unimpressive. Which is exactly why it works.
If I post once per week, that’s 52 posts a year. Fifty-two curated moments pulled from a library that’s been sitting quietly for too long. And if consistency builds momentum, maybe that becomes two or three per week someday.
But I’m not starting there. I’m starting with one.
This chapter isn’t about clearing my entire backlog overnight. It’s about building a rhythm that doesn’t turn something I love into a task I avoid.
Photography was never supposed to feel like admin work.
So here we go again. New structure. New mindset. Same guy behind the camera.
One per week.
That’s the chapter.
So, for right now, I will leave this poorly lit photo of two white-tailed deer staring at me in the middle of the night.
