The time has come, the walrus famously said, to talk of many things (thanks, Lewis Carroll). Rather than shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings, I tend to talk about digital photography.
When I came back to photography, I had no idea that the techniques and aesthetics of this wonderful new medium would take over my life. I used a crazy-quilt combination of methods to communicate with literally thousands of you who are passionate about digital photography, by writing this blog, adding contacts on Flickr, sending emails to people who were interested, and by writing books (like Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers). During the last few years, I have literally written thousands of blog stories and emails about the aesthetics, techniques, and technologies of digital photography, and about living the photographic life.
Just as kids grow up, so do interests and endeavors. The time has come where I've had to formalize my communications process (at least a bit!). So if you are interested in keeping abreast with what I'm doing in photography, the techniques I'm trying, my books, my workshops (not to mention the rest of my packed life) I urge you to sign up for my free photography newsletter. I promise back stories and information about my photos, delivered in a convenient email format. You'll also receive special information, offers, and techniques just for readers of my newsletter. Here's the link for subscription.
I think you'll enjoy my newsletter. But don't worry, if you decide to unsubscribe there's a management link on each email I'll send you!
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Good question, Dave! Some people may find email delivery in addition to syndication handy. On that topic, our brave new world partly revolves around allowing multiple communication paths---and user choice.
The run of the mill email communication will parallel the syndication feed, but I will also include additional content.
Let me repeat, I am planning to include content in the newsletter than will not be on my blog. In some cases, since I know readers of the email newsletter are actively, rather than passively, interested I will feel free to go into technical and aesthetic subjects in greater depth.
I've also been fairly aggressive about keeping certain kinds of topics to a minimum in my blog so that it reads like an online narrative rather than an advertisement. But, you know, I have to pay the bills too, so I'll include (items that for the most part you don't see on my blog) some special workshop announcements, items related to my publications, and special promotions related to my print sales.
I hope this helps to clarify the distinction.
And how will the newsletter differ from your blog's RSS feed?