Twitter is wonderful. The amount of information which flows through Twitter every hour is astounding. I monitor Twitter most of the day and see all these great comments, photos and links. I just do not have time to read them all.
I learned very quickly about how to Favorite a tweet. This lets me go back to the tweets when I have time. Sounds like a plan, doesn’t it? As I look at my Favorites link right now I have 828 Favorites. A daunting number and hence my trouble with Twitter.
Many of my Favorite tweets are photography related so, for this week’s Photography blog, I am going to share a few. Do not worry, it will only be five of them.
Those who follow my @sthomasphotos Twitter account know I re-tweet out a lot from Scott Bourne, who publishes the Photofocus blog I have linked under Photography blogs in the sidebar. Scott just gets it when it comes to photography and when he tweeted out this: Photograph what matters to you – http://bit.ly/fUV6ko. I knew it was an instant Favorite. Follow the link and I think you will agree.
Craft & Vision is the eBook publishing website for David duChemin. Besides tweeting out the latest photography ebook or sale, Craft & Vision tweets out information and links about the state of photography today. Most of those tweets make me stop and take notice, like this one: Are You an Artist or Just Another Photographer? http://bit.ly/bEKfms
Not all the tweets I mark as a Favorite are on photography. Some have very important lessons to teach from other’s misfortunes. Many of you know IvoryHut (Erika) suffered a huge loss when her family’s home was destroyed by a fire last year. A few weeks later, she tweeted out this article: Fire is a powerful teacher. http://ow.ly/2VegJ. I suggest you read this and take stock of your life.
I follow several accounts which are Twitter aggregators. They grab tweets from hundreds of accounts. Here’s an example: 32 Great Examples of Long Exposure http://ht.ly/2hda2. One of the ways to become better at photography is to look at good photographs and such tweets show some of best photos about a type of photography.
I am a sucker for a good “How to” article and dslrTips tweets out a slew of them like this: How to Shoot Silhouettes: http://bit.ly/bt4KKK.
If you have a Twitter account, I urge you to follow the accounts I have linked to today. My version of a Follow Friday (#FF). There, now I am down to 823 Favorites!
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Wow – wondeful links Scott! No time in my day for twittering so I’ll let you filter out the minutia for me. 😉
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Maybe I’ll make this a monthly feature for you, Tracy. 🙂
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Scott, I don’t do twitter, but love your post here. There are so many interesting posts and I think monthly feature would be a great idea. 🙂
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What?!?!
My sucking Hershey’s Syrup out of the bottle Tweets aren’t good enough for you?
I know an Elitist when I see one!!
*pshaw* on you and your list!
(said with a wink and a smile). ;P
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Oh, you want me to publish your tweets here? Sure! No problem. 😀
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I thought the syrup sucking was pretty funny KD! 😉
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Can. Not. Cope. With. Overload.
Bzzt.
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I felt that way when I noticed I had over 800 tweets saved up. Lots of great stuff but worthless if I do not start reading them. If I were you, Gerry, don’t start.
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I will follow your advice to Gerry and won’t start twittering ! The links you shared in this post are very interesting, thank you. I visited them all and was touched by Erika’s testimony about her loss. Precious words and teaching. Scott Bourne’s advice “Photograph what matters to you” will be remembered indeed.
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You’re welcome, Isa. Erika did us all a great favor by telling us her story and things to do to avoid what she went through. She is a wonderful person I hope to meet someday to give her a hug for that article and for writing the food photography guest blog a few weeks ago for me.
I highly recommend you visit Scott Bourne’s blog from time to time. It it if full of other insightful posts.
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I KNEW there was a reason I don’t use Twitter! 😉
That’s a lot of favorites!
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I am an Internet hoarder. There, I’ve said it. You should see all the bookmarks I have!
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Just got around to actually checking the links…fantastic Scott!
I will begrudgingly admit they are much more educational than my Tweets! LOL
Maybe I should start broadcasting Half Hour over there…might be time to let my worlds collide a bit.
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See! 😛 🙂 Maybe I have a future in editing.
Yes, you should broadcast your posts on Twitter. Those I’ll RT. 😉
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As you know Scott, I tweet too, but I’m a pretty low-key Twitter-er. I follow 40-something and only have about 20-something followers, but that seems to be a manageable amount. You and my sister and a few others I follow seem to RT enough to keep it interesting!
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You might be smarter to do so, Karma. I’ll keep’em coming for ya!
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I did add a couple of “follows” after this post though! 🙂
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Did you paint that photo or did you take a photograph of it..in any case it’s awesome. I don’t use twitter but maybe one of these days will check into it.
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I photographed it. It’s a very large mural near the entrance to Spaceship Earth in Walt Disney World’s Epcot.
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