For awhile now I’ve not been feeling the love for my online art gallery/community. Some things happened recently which have encouraged me to move on. So I have. To another Australian-run online gallery.
(And yes, the name is deliberate and you are supposed to have a chuckle at it.)
It doesn’t have some of the features of the old place and it is solely about photography but I think that’ll be good. You have to submit photos to the public gallery which is a new things for me but it’s good because it means I’m meeting their standards. And that’s encouraging. I did wonder what to do about my written pieces but I have a deviantArt profile. I experimented last night to see how hard it’d be to add written pieces to it and it’s dead easy! So that’s that sorted.
In the end, I felt like I simply didn’t belong. I used to get a lot of encouragement from the more experienced photographers but there seems to be a general lack of community feeling there these days. The forums which used to be fun now seemed to full of people more interested in attacking each other than having a sensible discussion. Who needs that in their lives?
So, new hopefully greener pastures. It’ll be all good. I have some work to do though – posts to update. Lots of dead links now to photos that have been hidden.