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Editor’s letter Time to get sociable
Hands up all those who get social media? Actually, I reckon I’d see more hands if I asked who doesn’t get Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc, not to mention Snapchat and Pinterest... Me? I can see the benefits andwhy people do it onaprofessional andpersonal level but Idon’t do a great deal myself. That’s probably because I don’t have a very interesting life – no kids, no pets, no wild (or even tame!) adventures – nor do I have anything to sell ormarket. And I don’t have a sense of humour – or at least not one that can make something hilarious out of someone eating a bag of crisps on the train. Looking back at my Facebook posts, most feature pictures of a glass of red wine – sometimes next to a croissant – at an airport bar, taken at some ungodly hour. Or pictures of new cameras that arrive in the office for testing. But I shoulddomoreandthathasbeenpartly motivated by our Beginner’s Guide to Social Media feature in this issue. PN features writer Jemma Dodd, who wrote it, put me to shame when she looked at my Facebook photography page and saw it was last touched in 2014 and most pictures were taken before 2010. So, firedup, I decided to sort some pictures to bring my photography FB page up to date. But when Iwent through them, Iwasn’t happywith what I had. It was time to get Lightroom up to work onmy pics. One thing led to another and I spent days picture fiddling, reprocessing many images that were, in my memory, perfectly fine but in reality were not up to standard. Several late nights later, I had a bunch of images ready to upload. I logged on and immediately remembered why I have done so little with my photography page: I didn’t know what to do. It took 15 minutes of clicking around just to work out how to delete all my old pictures. And I’ll bet you anything you like, next time I have to delete some images it will be the same.
Anyway, using our feature as a guide I have updated my photography page – search for William Cheung Photography on Facebook and you’ll find it. And my commitment is that at least once a month I will add something to it. That’s as much enthusiasm as I can rustle up. Speaking of enthusiasm, PN readers have bucketloads of it, especially as far as Photo 24 is concerned. In case you missed it, Photo 24 happens on 1 and 2 July with a noon start. The closing date for entries has officially closed and successful applicants have been told, but there are always dropouts so we have a standby list (where the priority is readers who didn’t get in at the first time of asking). We will keep this open until the last minute, so if you have only just realised it’s happening there is still the chance of getting a place. See News in this issue for details. With that, I’mgoing to post something banal on social media. Something like: “just written a page of PhotographyNews , woo hoo, aren’t I great, time for a glass of red, boring blah blah blah”. See you next month.
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