After hitting "publish" on my last post. I wondered if I should have added photos for all those books. Nearly every personal blog (as opposed to news-type blogs like Althouse and Instapundit and such) I come across now has scads of photos - sometimes more photos than text. Cooking blogs document every step of the recipe with a photo. Book blogs show the cover. Family blogs have photos of the kids and pets.
I like photos. Well, I don't like all the photos on the cooking blogs. I don't need to see a picture of melting butter, or a bowl full of dry ingredients. Sometimes they are pretty and artistic, but more often a distraction. May I just see the recipe, please? I do like photos of places visited, gardens, homes, family members, artwork. Stock photos stuck onto a blog post for no apparent reason (other than to have a photo) don't do much for me though.
Do photos enhance your blog-reading experience? Are they necessary to your enjoyment of a blog?
4 comments:
It drives me absolutely CRAZY to see step-by-step photos on cooking blogs. I can't even read Pioneer Woman's blog--I just scroll down to the recipe.
It is funny - I just "decluttered" my blog... I felt all the book pictures, even in the sidebars, were just too much.
I love SOME cooking photographs, but I do think people tend to go overboard.
Totally agree! It drives me insane too. If it is a photography blog then fine... I know what I'm getting into but too many photos - aaacckk!!! Plus, not everyone is on cable or ADSL. Some still dial-up! Archaic but true, LOL.
And my other pet dislike is video - video can be so slow. I'd rather read a tutorial and get through it much quicker.
I really like pictures on blogs, though I agree a picture of melted butter does seem unnecessary. When I look at three paragraphs on my blog with no pictures I wonder if anyone will want to read all of that without them (sign of the times, I guess.) Plus, pictures of kids learning and having fun are so cute! :)
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