Iain_U1250
Explorer
I have loved reading some blogs and switch off after a page or two on other blogs. Sometimes the trip is to nowhere special, but the photos and humour of the writer just keeps me reading. Other blogs have a fantastic destination, but the writing is so boring I just scan the photos. Even then the photos start to get boring, same point of view, another sunset etc, and often there is no sense of scale, trees might be massive, but you can't tell because there is nothing to compare against.
So often blogs goes along the lines of "This is where we are, and these photos are what we saw" They don't say what they think about the place, what was good, what was bad, problems and solutions, route changes, other people they met etc.
One of my pet hates is blogs that don't have any photos of the people writing the blog, so many times there is a photo of a campsite with all the gear set-up but no people, looks like a ghost camp, or loads of talk about what they did, but no photos of them doing it. I have read blogs where I have no idea what the people writing it look like at all. .
Videos are also great, but most times is it just an endless video of a road through the windscreen, I am guilty of that as we have a dash mounted camera. Looking at the Kamillo videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147gnfjNyjw and I realised that dash cams are boring, and it is all the other shots and angles that make it interesting, and especially with the travelers in the video. It takes time and effort to get out and take video of trucks negotiating obstacles, or do an in-car interview, especially when something is going wrong or is just very funny.
I would love to hear opinion about what makes a good travel blog, as I would love to improve my own so that people enjoy reading them, after all, there is really no point writing something if no one reads it.
So often blogs goes along the lines of "This is where we are, and these photos are what we saw" They don't say what they think about the place, what was good, what was bad, problems and solutions, route changes, other people they met etc.
One of my pet hates is blogs that don't have any photos of the people writing the blog, so many times there is a photo of a campsite with all the gear set-up but no people, looks like a ghost camp, or loads of talk about what they did, but no photos of them doing it. I have read blogs where I have no idea what the people writing it look like at all. .
Videos are also great, but most times is it just an endless video of a road through the windscreen, I am guilty of that as we have a dash mounted camera. Looking at the Kamillo videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147gnfjNyjw and I realised that dash cams are boring, and it is all the other shots and angles that make it interesting, and especially with the travelers in the video. It takes time and effort to get out and take video of trucks negotiating obstacles, or do an in-car interview, especially when something is going wrong or is just very funny.
I would love to hear opinion about what makes a good travel blog, as I would love to improve my own so that people enjoy reading them, after all, there is really no point writing something if no one reads it.
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