A Piece of Advice From Joe McNally

As I mentioned yesterday, I recently attended the Photoshop World Conference in Vegas.  Joe McNally, a world renowned photographer who has worked for such note worthy magazines as Life and National Geographic, gave this piece of advice.  He said that you should blog... even if no one is reading it.  It is important to "be out there, to have a voice."  Well, I have been blogging for a few months now and, sure enough, no one reads it... so, according to Joe McNally, I guess I'm doing something right.

One real benefit to blogging is that it helps the writer learn.  I blog about photography even though I do not have decades of experience like some of the bloggers I read.  What I have discovered in doing this is that it forces me to delve deeper into subjects so that I can blog about them.  The act of blogging then serves to further reinforce what I have learned.  It's the old adage that the best way to learn... is to teach.  That is what I am doing through my blog, conveying information that I have learned.  In other words, teaching. 

Try it sometime.  You might find that it works for you too.

Ryan