Wow.
Ten years ago today I started Light Stalking.
I experienced photography and conceive I would enjoy writing about it. Turns out I loved it( and continue to ).
Boom! Day one and we had over 6,000 readers( recollect Digg and Stumbleupon ?) and from there we never seemed back.
Over the following 12 months over a quarter million people inspected the locate and it was going better than I could have imagined! Light Stalking even got onto the” Who to Follow” on Twitter in photography and began to hit a knot of top 10 directories online for our industry.
That’s when things get interesting. But, I involved improve!
Enter the awesomely talented Mike Panic in February of 2010 who wrote for you for two and a half years. His acquaintance and involving style genuinely helped mount Light Stalking’s path. It also augured well for the staggeringly high quality of people who came to help the Light Staking project and cured make us to be among the five most-read photography blogs in the world.
In its first year since then, some amazing beings have given serious help to this ship.
And some going to go above and beyond the entitle with Jason Row, Jason Little, Dahlia Ambrose, Federico Alegria, Kehl Bayern, Sheen Watkins, Dzvonko Petrovski and Scott Johnson all contributing over a hundred commodities each and maintaining us at those high levels. Hell, the two Jasons are at over 600 sections each- that’s some faithfulnes!
Other crowd beloveds who wrote prolifically for us included Jasenka Grujin, Ritesh Saini, Christopher O’Donnell, Rachael Towne, Aloha Lavina, Chase Guttman, Tiffany Mueller, Taissia Iv, Russell Goodman, Jacob Maentz and Kent DuFault.
I am proud to call them all acquaintances and I adored( and affection) working with each of these talented people.
The following year, another wonderful thing happened. On Oct 21, 2010 The Light Stalking meetings opened and were instantly successful. People streamed in from the blog and social media. This really turned on the sounds of satisfying some breathtaking parties, many of whom are still on the locate to this day as old friends affiliate brand-new ones.
Diane Kidd has been a boulder on the forums since they started and can take as much recognition for their ongoing success and anybody. David Chesterfield has volunteered for years to keep them departing as have John Thompson, Tobie Schalkwyk and Dru Stone for which I am eternally grateful. I desire how people has definitely stepped up to build that part of the area. Earnestly, among the visitors in this past week, there are 29 people who have induced over 1000 forum responses each since they attached( various of them many more )!! I affection that all levels of society is so tight-knit.
During those times I too met a artistic person specified Brett Fox and we swapped a lot of notes about racing websites and whatnot. Almost three years to the day after Light Stalking was launched, the treat to start Photzy with Brett was realized on March 17, 2012 with a three route email. And son did he run with it.
Brett organized his own team with some former Light Stalking the authors and exited from backbone to strength, building one of “the worlds largest” prolific digital publishers in the industry. Former Light Stalking writers Kent Dufault, Karlo De Leon and Ritesh Saini have been amazing in that corporation. These days the teams are wholly separate, but Photzy continues to draw talented photographers and writers from the Light Stalking parish and both companies work closely together.
On July 11, 2013 we opened another region of the locate, The Shark Tank, aimed at generating people meaningful feedback on their idols and distinguishing ourselves from a lot of communities that grow” delightful shot” sororities. This one was for people who really wanted to improve. And wow, it taken away from more. These periods it is responsible for well over half of the posts in the community and, dare I say, “its about” the most wonderful place online to get sincere essay on a photograph?
Since that time we have also exhausted several dozen makes for photographers and further explore new ways to help people improve and enjoy the craftsmanship. Twenty million people have found their highway to the place and I like to think all of them experienced it … well most of them anyway.
Today, Light Stalking still sits in the top 5 most read photography blogs in the world. People continue to reference our amazing essays in their books, blogs and areas. The community repeatedly goes ranked among the highest photography communities.
This past decade has been nothing short of amazing for me. The people I have met. The unit that has been built around this locate. These are things I will be grateful for forever.
But the wonderful thing is that I don’t looks a lot like we’re done more. Not by a long shot. Something about establishing beneficial photography seminars and helping people make their photography up a notch is quite addictive. Meeting the pride people take in their own progress is so fulfilling to me personally. It really feels right and I know the team feels the same way.
Combined with the facts of the case that our present team works so well together … Dahlia, Jasenka, Federico, Angie, Kehl, Jason R and Jason L- I feel like we’re only just starting to reached our straps.
And because of the wonderful people, the brilliant parish and the superb books, well that’s why we’ll be back tomorrow.
Thank you for meeting us on the ride.
Rob Wood
Founder
Light Stalking
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