How to build a Photo Story

The movie starts out in slow motion. Two men, middle aged and in business suits, are on a tarmac and running toward each other. They are yelling and pointing fingers at each other, but there is no sound so you don't know why they're angry. When they meet, they begin wrestling each other to ground. Still in slow motion, still no sound. In the next scene, a picture of a city, and the caption "Five Years Later".

Five years later? Wait a minute! I want to know what was going on!

Now, most of us are going to be blogging about things that are, well, more mundane. But the point is, we want our blogging efforts to be interesting to the folks who stop by to read them. We'd like to capture their attention.  We visit each others blogs, as our consumers do, to learn something, or to be entertained, or to be inspired. That's where photo blogging comes in.

When you use words together with relevant photographs to tell a story, or make a point, or share information - most of us will find it more interesting. We're a visual group, we humans, but we're also kind of nosey!  When you post a photo of a place, a person, an event, or a thing - it can be made even more interesting by adding commentary that supports the photo. That's PhotoBlogging.

In PhotoBlogging, your photos, slideshows, or video are not the whole story, they are an integral part of the story.

Enquiring Minds also want to know:

What is it?  Where is it?  How did it get there?  Why were you there?   How did you do it?  What was the outcome?  Who was involved?  What happened next?  What is the history?  How do you feel about it?  How do others feel about it?  What did you use?  Where did you get it?  What were you thinking at the time?   How does it work?  Who's idea was it?  Why is it special/important?  What does it offer?  How did you learn about this?  (And any number of other questions that may pertain).

Every Photo has a story.

Use the answers to any or all of these questions to help you

build on the stories your photographs tell.

PhotoBlogging is about sharing photos and information!

(Hone your skills, William is planning a contest after the first of the year!)

                             And remember, in this group, the photos must be your own!