Even if it doesn't look like I have a blog dedicated to street photography since 2009. Through this post I explain how I achieved to keep this commitment alive all these years without experiencing crisis.

A little bit of history

I started to blog about my experience as a street photographer in 2009. I opened the first blog on the blogspot platform and it was titled in 35mm, remarking since then my philosophy and my visual preference. That blog was quite successful and this despite being on a platform and not a personal domain. It was thanks to the exponential growth of that blog that, when I found myself in need of my professional site, it was a natural process to export the blog to it.

The rest is history, with a blog that from 2011 until the first months of 2021 was a reference, with record numbers, lots of content and a very high positioning on google, thanks to a high domain authority. The blog has counted with many partnerships and sponsors, several photographers featured, resulting in over 8000 unique page visits in a single day, even going down due to excessive traffic. At the end of February 2021 the entire site was completely deleted due to a malware attack and therefore the blog you are reading was born.

Within 5 days I created the site and published the first post, with the firm intention of recovering the previous work, but with a completely different approach and ideas, avoiding the mistakes made in the past, offering a better and more mature space for my audience that grows with me. In a very short time, in a matter of months the blog has attracted the attention of the public, perhaps not yet counting with the record numbers of before, but without a doubt it is today again a blog essentially focused on street photography that many are reading and following.

So, how I managed to do this all over these years and how I find still the energy to do it?

Oh, to me it is easy. I am a Street Photographer, I don’t do the Street Photographer. This means that I am not playing a role because Street Photography occupies my daily living. But to be that possible, guys, I want to share some points, some essential features to carry on a blog dedicated to street photography for many years with excellent results:

To be a writer and not just a photographer
Having a strong motivation to share your experience as a photographer
Having a sense of commitment that makes you see the blog not only as a business card of yourself but as a mission for the whole street photography community
To count with a real and vast knowledge of the subject matter
Always have new ideas and thoughts that may be useful to other photo readers
Respect your audience
Make your own trademark through the content proposed and your writing style

I hope this can help you, guys and representing an inspiration to make your own blog. We need more blogs focused on Street Photography, more than in the past. The entire world street photography community needs it.

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