I have chosen this title and these images today because I like the images but mainly because today I have reached a significant milestone with regard to page views of my blog.
I started this blog 12 years ago on Thursday 18th September 2104 with the aim of sharing my photography with family and friends and with luck anyone who happened to stumble across my posts. I started posting daily but over time this reduced and in 2024 I didn't post anything on the blog I just shared pictures on Instagram and facebook.
Occasionally I would monitor the number of page views and I would be excited to see that my posts were being viewed, not just by family and friends but all around the world. I included a counter at the bottom of the page to see how much traffic the blog was getting and slowly, very slowly it ticked over.
As the total number of page views increased I started to pay a little more attention until this morning in the early hours it ticked past 1 million page views, and as I write this it stands at 1,oo5,936. Given that that is spread over such a long time it might not seem all that remarkable however just two months ago at the start of August the total page views was 732,653, and then, for some reason things have really taken off with almost 275,000 views in just 7 weeks.
When I spoke about how close the total was getting to 1 million someone asked me "what do you get when it does?" and of course the answer is "I get nothing" this blog is not monetised and no one is going to come along and give me an award but there is still a sense of satisfaction that images I have captured and created have been viewed and enjoyed so many times by people all around the world. At times I have been tempted to stop sharing but the recent increase in views tells me that what I am doing is worthwhile so I will continue and hopefully you will continue to enjoy what I share.
The first two images were taken in Triberg in the Black Forest in autumn 2021, I have shared similar images in the past but I created these new edits for this post. The final two photos were taken using my phones camera on a walk along the banks of the river Seine at a place called Grisy sur Seine last September. As I said at the start of this post they are old milestones to commemorate my milestone.
