Monthly Archives: February 2009

As a modern photographer one of the biggest social networking sites that I visit is Flickr but Flickr is not my favorite and does little to help my marketing but I recently started to look at ways to change that.

One thing that I’ve done recently is to stop using Flickr as just a holding pen for loads of my personal work and begun to send some clients to my Flickr photostream. For those not familiar with Flickr – my photostream is the collection of my work on Flickr.

I’m not sending everyone there – just those that want to see more of what I’ve done, where I’ve been, what I’ve done, and where I am now in my creative development.

Again not everyone gets to see these photos – just those that can’t otherwise get enough of my photos or a sense of my abilities by seeing what I have up on the WDO Photography website.

Clearly this is not something that photographers will want to do if the work they have on Flickr is not their best. I tend to only upload items that would fit into a portfolio or that I would otherwise not have an issue sharing with clients. One should never have anything online that they don’t believe in sharing with the public. Continue reading »