Travel Turtle

Do you want to hear a secret? Sure you do.

Fortunately, I have quite a few secrets to share with you today.

First, I recently realized that I don’t like adding pictures to my blog posts. Shhh… don’t tell anyone. This wasn’t a random realization, but more of a pondering of what would make me more happy in life and that led to me acknowledging that I like to be good at things. While I take fine travel photos, I don’t take decent every day photos. Regardless, I don’t like editing, cropping, saving, uploading… it’s too much. And I do prefer to have something to say.

When I post pictures, I spend all my energy on the images that I can’t even think anymore. Sometimes what I want to say doesn’t have a picture that should go with the words and still make sense.

I could post other people’s pics, but I’d rather just link to them or favorite them on flickr. When I see something on Etsy I like, I just favorite it and then it shows up in that little box on the left column of this blog. Pressing a button and having it appear right where I would’ve put it is so much better than going through the adding-a-picture-to-my-blog-motions.

I know it’s so much more fun to have pictures on blogs. That takes me to my next secret.

I have not banned pictures on this blog. I am just not going to stress about it.

Third secret: I was talking to a friend today, a professional photographer friend. We decided it that we hate it when non-professional photographers have professional photography equipment, ie. a pimped out camera.

Fourth secret: I often contradict my own feelings. As much as I hate it when people do this, I (a definite non-professional photographer) want to own America’s Next Top Camera. I also yell at the person behind me running the red-light with me.