New LDS Photoblog

Here's a new blog featuring photos of Utah and the BYU campus: Onelowerlight's Daily Photo Safari. I downloaded the accompanying shot of a BYU quad as an example (yes, there's still a little grass left on campus). And you might enjoy the photos of Kelly's mission call party. It's about time someone did something a little different with a blog.

Really — I'm surprised there hasn't been more specialization in LDS blogs. It's an easy way to move up the blog food chain. For example, anyone with a solo blog could make it a "temple blog" and just put up regular links to media stories on temples or announcements of new temples. Or someone could specialize by identifying new bloggers by putting up posts and a comprehensive blogroll (I only started doing it because, after waiting and waiting, no one else stepped up to the plate on this one). Or a mission news blog. Or a FARMS blog — instant traffic. Or, like Photo Safari, a photo blog. And it's not like you have to start a new blog to specialize. You could start tomorrow.

Comments

[Susan M]

Thanks for the heads up on this blog, looks cool. I've always thought there should be more photos in blogging. (I post a lot on my personal blog, but if I were to limit myself to mostly Mormon subjects I think I'd go insane.)

And BTW, count me as one that doesn't like the new link image thing.

[Dave]

Thanks for the comment, Susan. I did remove Snap windows on the sidebars. Unless someone throws in a "Dave that's really cool" comment or two in the next few days, I may de-Snap the site.

[The Monk]

I have a solo blog mostly about temples,, but I just don't blog much. My near future suddenly and unexpectedly has a lot more free time in it, so expect more posts and updates in the near future.

www.mormonmonastery.org

[Dave]

It looks like a blog, but it doesn't really function like a blog. So I'll add it to my list of Mormon sites, not LDS blogs.

Monk, maybe you should solicit some start-up capital and actually build a Mormon monastery. Utah has deserts ...

[Seth R.]

Yeah, I remember picking up Onelowerlight on some other bloggernacle thread.

I really like what he's doing. The photos bring back a lot of memories.

[dp]

There is another one that I've been tracking for a couple of years now and he has some really great pictures. When he started, a lot of the pictures were of the BYU campus. In fact today's shot is an awesome view of the JSFB.

http://www.sudweeks.net/index.html

[Dave]

Thanks for the link, dp. I actually discovered two new blogs as a result of your comment.