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March Archived
1 April 2023
We've just archived Volume 12, Number 3 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 16 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 165 items of interest), one review and one site note for a total of 64 stories.
Of those, 28 stories included 154 images and three featured gear specifications tables. There was one holiday and no obituaries.
READERSHIP levels showed another increase, hard as that may be to imagine given the current state of the industry.
Unique sites were up 108 percent (which makes it 284 percent over the past 12 months). Visits have also shown a marked increase over the past year at 286 percent.
Most of our shooting this month has been at a skilled nursing facility with our smartphone.
OUR TOP STORIES were led by the Jerry Ghionis wedding photography course, followed by six Around The Horns. Our slide show An Exercise in Composition was next in line followed by the news of a Graphic Converter update and another Horn to round out the top ten.
We repeat it isn't quite fair to lump yesterday's stories in with stories that have been available for four week already. So the story counts are always biased toward older ones.
WHILE WE'VE ENJOYED a few wonderful photowalks in March, most of our shooting this month has been at a skilled nursing facility with our smartphone, texting images to friends and family members following Mom's recovery from several serious infections which may ultimately be debilitating.
The photo texting has been an experience itself.
In the past we've kept family and friend updated with a variety of methods but they were mostly text based with an accompanying photo on a dedicated Web site. That has always worked well but this time we didn't want to get that ball rolling.
For one thing, we don't have a grasp of what is going on. Information has been spotty, care has been intense but obscure, both diagnoses and prognoses have only been reluctantly shared. And at 95 years old, there's no guarantee that things will end well.
With a situation that seemed more fragile and hence more immediate, we resorted to texts with photos scattered among those who contacted us. No lurking, not this time.
It's been a bit less demanding than the Web site approach because we could do it on the fly at the skilled nursing facility. So when we left for the day, we were done.
When the dust settles we'll probably have a few things to share about the experience of keeping family and friends informed with photos.
But we are still hoping the dust, as it were, doesn't settle.