It is all about the light

A HOLIDAY MESSAGE TO YOU

Happy new year to my followers! Don’t forget to hug those you love and to tell them how important they are to you. Resolve issues, forgive, make peace. Life is short, it goes fast, and tomorrow is not guaranteed.

I intend to be back next year with new materials and photographs!

If you want a summary of my blogging statisticsfor 2025, keep reading below.

A 2025 BLOG SUMMARY

In 2025, I wrote 50 posts, totaling 20K words, which resulted in 52,090 views (up from 13k views last year) and short of 549 comments (down from 599 last year). I suppose half of the comments are my own replies. I have short of 336 followers ( up from 309 followers last year, counting e-mail followers).

Below is a graph with my blog statistics for 2025. The summary below the bar graph is for that range (views, visitors, likes and comments).

My most important referrer is 2025 was Search Engines (7,054 views), followed by WordPress Android app (1,592 views), WordPress.com reader (563 views), and Facebook (505 views). Apparently, and consistent with previous years, trying to announce blog posts on Instagram is not worth my time, since only nine views came from there. A few AI engines have appeared as referees to my posts for the first time, but the numbers are still not worth mentioning.

It is exciting when I look at the graph across the years to see that the blog is more popular now than when I created it. My statistics in 2022 and 2023 were not as flattering.

My four most popular posts, in this order, for the time range, were as follows:

• I dropped my Nikon Z50. Why did I replace it with another one (6,681 views);

•  The most delicate flower grows amongst the sharpest spines – Echinopsis chiloensis, a Chilean cactus (1,234 views);

•  Why I have not replaced my Nikon D750 yet (1,074);

• Discovering beautiful Gualala, California, on the Mendocino Coast (747 views);

• Inspiring botanical photographer – Karl Blossfeldt (653 views).

I was surprised that only one new post, “Why I have not replaced my Nikon D750 yet” surpassed some of last years’ most popular ones. The popularity of gear-related posts make me wonder why there is still a niche for this type of post, since there are so many gear-dedicated blogs out there.

Photography achievements in 2025

In 2025 I held my first duo show with my friend Beth Savidge, “Botanical Beauty”. You can read all about it on this link. I entered, and was accepted into, one juried art show, Art Farm 2025, Yolo Arts. As explained elsewhere in a previous post, I only enter juried art shows to support local organizations.

Sales wise, from my Pixels portfolio, I sold a total of 16 prints in 2025, and from my GeoGalleries portfolio, I made zero sales total. Two prints were sold at the Art Farm show and four at the duo show.

THE LEAD PHOTOGRAPH

The FEATURED PHOTOGRAPH (ISO 1,000, 1/1600s, f/11 at 27mm), repeated below for convenience, was taken from the city of Niterói, state of Rio de Janeiro, during my vacation. There is a joke among people from the city across the bay that the best thing about Niterói is the view of Rio de Janeiro. The two tiny mountains beyond the crack between the two foreground mountains are the famous Sugar Loaf and Christ the Redeemer, both in Rio de Janeiro. The bird here helped to give the photo a tridimensional look and certain interest.

Thanks so much for following me through 2025, and for the kind support and feedback you have given me. More importantly, I am grateful that I have found several interesting blogs to follow on a variety of subjects, and for the chance to participate in discussions on various issues that include, but are not limited to, photography. 

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