Obviously, I enjoy doing it very much and although the main reason we decided to create this site is for the purpose of CAS, for me it doesn't feel like a responsibility or a chore. I love taking pictures and searching for quotes and coming up with the titles. This method of sharing out pictures not only provides us with an easy way of spreading it with people all over the world, but is also a creative outlet and we can make it as customisable as we want. Personally, I absolutely loved editing the layout and tweaking the HTML to get it exactly how we wanted, although there are still a few small adjustments I'd like to make. For example, there is a phrase in the top Navigation Bar, which should not be there and I have not yet found how to move it.
Alongside our pictures, we have also already featured out very first guest author: Hans. This is a somewhat big step towards how we envision the page to look in the future, as although we do aim to be the main contributing photographers, we would like it to be a platform that a wider variety of people can add to. These guest posters do not necessarily have to be IB Students looking for a way of gaining some creativity, but anyone with a passion for using a camera and an interest in sharing their pictures. If anyone would be interested in being a guest author, we are open to anybody and hope to make an easy way for people to submit their photographs.
I'm completely shocked by the incredible response we've already received, which the number of page views having gone up to nearly 1000 (991 to be exact) in less than a month. This is absolutely incredible! The platform we are using to host the blog allows us to view a more detailed analysis of who has been viewing our blog and from where, which is particularly interesting. We're able to see where in the world most of our views are coming from. Aside from Germany, the most dedicated countries are: United States, South Africa, United Kingdom and Denmark. I've gotten into the habit of checking on the stats every day or two, and it never fails to impress me. We do have certain days that are better or worse, but overall I can't complain at all.
Collaborating and working with Cailin has been all that I expected and more! She is an amazing person to work with and the whole experience has been only positive. To add to that, I'm always amazed by her photographs and they inspire me to experiment with my own. Our styles are very different and I can definitely learn a thing or two from her photographs - it also gives our readers/viewers a larger variety.
Although I am very happy with everything related to out photography blog, there are a few improvements I'd like to make in the somewhat near future. These are both aesthetic changes and additions. Firstly in terms of design changes, as I mentioned above I would like to remove the words from the navigation bar to give the page a more clean and professional feel and potentially update the footer to add some more features. Secondly, there are some non-design-related changes that I would like to make. The first thing that we would like to do, it set up a way for people who would like to be guest authors to contact us and contribute their photographs. We thought about giving our emails or setting up a new one that they could send their pictures to, with the option of choosing a title and quote or leaving that up to us.
If you haven't already, check out our photographs here.
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