tl;dr - i'm separating photos from texts and launching a dedicated photoblog at ptrcks.photos
when i got into photography, i first started uploading my pictures to flickr but eventually moved to instagram like everyone else. it was a fun new place, starting with blurry photos of food and slowly moving to nicer photography1. but this has changed a few years ago.
nowadays i don't feel good posting to instagram anymore. haven't done a proper post in a while and deleted my profile(s) twice. while instagram brought me more into photography, it also pushed me away from it. ads, influencer marketing, and an algorithm obsessed with random people's reels took over and my photography-community was gone.
i don't want to stay trapped in social media platforms that feel like walled gardens anymore, always changing their rules and visibility algorithms (to display more ads).
my newly launched photoblog is my response to that. my pictures are visible if i want them to be.
i don't think i'm a very good photographer, but this photoblog doesn't have an algorithm. it doesn't have ads, it doesn't want to influence anyone. it's just about photos. and about me, of course.
my photos originally lived on the blog you're reading this on but i decided to separate the photoblog from my other posts2 and move it to a dedicated domain, independent of the username pzumk3.
i'm really happy that i got the domain ptrcks.photos and how i'm able to use bearblog for this, which is a text-centered community blogging platform. to make the site look the way i wanted i have modified the great bearming theme and it's gallery. also, there's a experimental ○ stories feature in my nav bar, next to the categories for black & white photography, halide's process zero, and stickers.
most photos are #shotoniphone, from a 4S to my current 17 pro. for this summer i'm eyeing with a ricoh griiix or a fuji though...
now if it only would stop freezing outside i could actually go out and take pictures to post :)