Another Photo Vlog Post

Happy 2025, folks!

Despite the challenges that will no doubt face us in the new year, I am confident that if we stand by one another, we'll get through it, together.

If you've seen yesterday's blog post, this may seem like simply a repeat of that post. Also, I've never really been one to make new year's resolutions, but I've decided that I do need to make some changes for 2025.

For nearly 14 years, The Brown Knowser blog has been one of my passion projects. I love to write and my blog has been an outlet for my writing. Photography is my favourite hobby and The Brown Knowser has let me share what I hope have been images that are worth viewing.

Or, at least, my photos have supplemented my writing.

But another hobby has started drawing my time and energy: videos. I'm not particularly good at them but I enjoy recording them, nonetheless. My YouTube channel is another form of storytelling and I have considered it to be an extension of my blog.

Videos take a lot longer to put together than a blog post. And because they take more time, I have found that I either rush to complete a video or I spend more time on them at the cost of not writing a decent blog post.

In 2025, I'd like to change that.

Starting this year, I'm going to devote equal time to my blog and to my YouTube channel. And I'm not going to rush either.

So I'm not going to feel the need to publish five posts per week if I feel that I need to spend more time to make a decent video. I only want to put out content—written or visual—that I think is truly worthwhile, to me and to my audience.

Thanks to all of you who've supported me over the years.

I guess this really isn't a repeat of yesterday's post. But in one way, it is.

Yesterday, I shared 13 photographs that I felt were my best images of 2024. I meant to only share 12 but an extra photo creeped in. On Sunday, DW and I sat in front of our family-room TV and reviewed these photos, with one image being captured earlier that day.

DW hadn't seen my favourite photos of the year, though she had been with me when I captured a few of them. Looking at our TV screen, she was seeing my compilation of my best images for the first time.

I recorded our interaction and created a video for my YouTube channel. Have a look.

I hope that if you enjoy The Brown Knowser blog and like my YouTube videos that you'll subscribe to my channel. I have some interesting ideas for 2025 that I hope will interest you, too.

Again, may 2025 bring you joy. Continue being awesome.