Living World Photography, a photo blog

My son has been blogging four months longer than me. He started a Xanga journal in June 2003 as a junior in high school, along with a cadre of friends who chronicled the adolescent experience online.

Now that he's a 21-year-old college student focused on his future, he's discovered business blogging with a twist. As an aspiring nature photographer, he has a catalog of thousands of digital photos, and he's using his new blog, Living World Photography, to showcase his work.

His challenge: To ensure publishers looking for images of, say, a wolf spider eating a butterfly or a congregation of ladybeetles will find the photos and contact him about high-res images. A thoughtful balance of superb photography, behind-the-photo stories, blog promotion and search engine optimization could build a small but loyal following of natural world chroniclers.

It's happened once already. Will's photo of an obscure insect photographed on the beach at Half Moon Bay, CA, and posted on BugGuide.net was picked up by the publisher of a field guide to insects.

One of my favorite photos by Will is a dozen angry wet rock hyraxes (the closest living relative to elephants!), photographed on safari in Kenya in April 2006. Will caught them after a rain shower, when they were quite indignant about the drenching.

Comments

[Will]

Hmm... as of this point in time, this is the only way my site comes up in a web search. Thanks for the publicity mom ;-)