My travel photography blog - what do you think?

[EONOnly]

Maybe I've missed out on some but I think a few of those city shots might look better taken at night, the light isn't making things that interesting.

I have no idea why would I take some of my shots during night. During dusk or dawn? Perhaps, but my blog is about travel photography and traveling is not about waiting for the dusk to take one photo. I'd rather do and see more than wait for the perfect lighting

What I see so far is clean and simple. Nice!

No as cluttered as my own travel blog PhotoScapes - A Photographic Travel Blog by Alexander Thorsten Blumenau ... which also somehow deviated from travel

I wonder once your blog grows, you might need some sub-structure to organise things in the blog.

Nice blog, Alex_B! I don't think your blog is cluttered - I find it quite simple for the amount of content. I guess I'll worry about organizing my blog when it grows. I'm running it for only one month now!

 

[Dikkie]

I really like the website. Plain and simple.
Great photography btw!

 

[cgipson1]

I like it! Simple and direct... not overly verbose. You let the images tell the story....

 

[flow]

I understand where you're going with leaving the personal details out ... but sometimes you really should have a correlation between what you write and what the pictures show. For example - in your Hong Kong entry, you talk about how fantastic the views are from Victoria Peak ... but no shots to share that view with the readers? Nothing to convince us that it's really as good as you say (or just for us to ogle at)? It leaves the reader hanging, wondering what happened to those images.

 

[sekhar]

For what you want to do, IMO you should focus on the images and minimize or skip the writing completely. I.e., fill it with memorable images, making visitors come back for more. Telling a story through images alone is hard, but can be many times more powerful than with words because it lets the viewers fill the gaps with their own experiences (meaning we all experience your blog differently). Basically, what the movie folks do to us.

I like your images, but they seem random and don't follow a theme (at least nothing I could discern). Sticking to a theme will mean you'll need to leave out images you think are great, but IMO that enhances your blog. The look/feel of the images on your blog is also different, and the layout is odd (I suggest at the minimum centering the images) - both of which are really easy to fix. I'd also put a background to your website to create the mood, instead of leaving it blank.

I suggest looking at what others are doing. One site that is like what I'm suggesting is the blog from Steve McCurry, the guy I immensely admire. Note that his "blog" is really a list of spectacular images with virtually no text other than some quotes.

 

[EONOnly]

I understand where you're going with leaving the personal details out ... but sometimes you really should have a correlation between what you write and what the pictures show. For example - in your Hong Kong entry, you talk about how fantastic the views are from Victoria Peak ... but no shots to share that view with the readers? Nothing to convince us that it's really as good as you say (or just for us to ogle at)? It leaves the reader hanging, wondering what happened to those images.

Picture from Victoria Peak is in the first post. I think it's pointless to publish it twice just for the sake of following the text.

For what you want to do, IMO you should focus on the images and minimize or skip the writing completely. I.e., fill it with memorable images, making visitors come back for more. Telling a story through images alone is hard, but can be many times more powerful than with words because it lets the viewers fill the gaps with their own experiences (meaning we all experience your blog differently). Basically, what the movie folks do to us.

I like your images, but they seem random and don't follow a theme (at least nothing I could discern). Sticking to a theme will mean you'll need to leave out images you think are great, but IMO that enhances your blog. The look/feel of the images on your blog is also different, and the layout is odd (I suggest at the minimum centering the images) - both of which are really easy to fix. I'd also put a background to your website to create the mood, instead of leaving it blank.

I suggest looking at what others are doing. One site that is like what I'm suggesting is the blog from Steve McCurry, the guy I immensely admire. Note that his "blog" is really a list of spectacular images with virtually no text other than some quotes.

Thank you for your opinion! I love McCurry's blog (I even have it in my link section), but his layout is absolutely horrible - crowded and distracting. Background images are also something that I really dislike - not to mention that they usually slow down the page significantly.