{"id":12078,"date":"2023-06-28T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2023-06-28T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:52:08","slug":"linked-talented-photographer-that-nobody-knows-is-ready-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2023\/06\/28\/linked-talented-photographer-that-nobody-knows-is-ready-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Talented Photographer That &#8216;Nobody Knows&#8217; is Ready to Quit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:675,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/petapixel.com\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/28\\\/talented-photographer-that-nobody-knows-is-ready-to-quit&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231222111706\\\/https:\\\/\\\/petapixel.com\\\/2023\\\/06\\\/28\\\/talented-photographer-that-nobody-knows-is-ready-to-quit\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 16:57:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11 19:13:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-25 11:33:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-04 22:10:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-17 08:04:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 15:45:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 12:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 07:26:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 12:55:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 17:04:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 05:38:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 10:06:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:21:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 04:21:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>via PetaPixel <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/28\/talented-photographer-that-nobody-knows-is-ready-to-quit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talented Photographer That &#8216;Nobody Knows&#8217; is Ready to Quit | PetaPixel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>Despite capturing breathtaking landscape photos, Andrew Waddington tells PetaPixel that nobody is aware of him \u201cprimarily because I refuse to use Instagram\u201d and his best work \u201cbarely receives a handful of views on Flickr.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>\u201cHowever, if you\u2019re using social media for dopamine hits then you\u2019re probably using it for the wrong reasons.\u201d<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>&#8220;Waddington tells PetaPixel that he is ready to \u201ccall it a day\u201d and take up printing instead.&#8221;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>\u201cI don\u2019t have the pressure to keep performing to my audience in the way someone with an Instagram following might,\u201d he says.&#8221;<br \/><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, give me a break. If you are a photographer, you never stop being a photographer. It\u2019s not possible. I\u2019m never going to stop being a photographer since I cut lawns all summer to save $400 to buy a camera in 2001 until I die.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this photographer eluded a few times that they get validation and their own dopamine hit from comments and feedback on social media but they couldn\u2019t set proper boundaries to keep from constantly scrolling those social networks. That\u2019s on them. I have an Instagram account specifically for photos of motorcycles. It\u2019s very niche and you now what? I don\u2019t have Instagram installed and use an online publishing service where I schedule images to be posted there and I follow no one. I have DMs turned off. Flickr is still my online gallery. Instagram is to satisfy hundreds of requests that I share my photos there. I checked that box for my fans. Same on YouTube. I don\u2019t watch anything on YouTube motorcycle related despite the fact I have 1,550 videos uploaded about motorcycling. People assume I know all of the motorcycle YouTubers\u2026I don\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can participate in social media without being sucked into it.<\/p>\n<p>Third, if you\u2019re in photography for the money, then you play the game. If you can\u2019t do that because you can\u2019t separate work and personal, you can keep being a photographer and take up a new profession. Keep posting your stuff like I do and contributing to the medium without filling in thousands of hashtags and trying to get re-posted by some account with 1 million followers. I like Andrew\u2019s images. They\u2019re pretty one-dimensional and are all landscapes with a LOT of editing. Not my style but good for him. It\u2019s a shame when someone who is shooting gives it up but like most of the content on PetaPixel (a blog I subscribed to when DP Review was announced to be closing), it\u2019s just trash content. PetaPixel is full of articles about trends so they can get google traffic. Now that DPReview is not going away, I\u2019m happy to remove PetaPixel from my RSS reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via PetaPixel Talented Photographer That &#8216;Nobody Knows&#8217; is Ready to Quit | PetaPixel: Despite capturing breathtaking landscape photos,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-29T00:52:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"38e0679a-bac2-4063-843e-9659d95df02e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-29T00:52:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOOBnmrrCQGOEPpZZ2V3wLg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-38O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6786,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/linked-the-white-house-flickr-account-just-changed-hands-from-obama-to-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":12078,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The White House Flickr Account Just Changed Hands from Obama to Trump&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via PetaPixel: If and when Trump does appoint a White House photographer, the Flickr account is waiting for him. 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