Happy 4th of July everybody!  Today the United States celebrates the declaration of it's independence from Great Britain.  All across the country the holiday will be marked with parades, barbecues and fireworks.  Tonight I'm going to see the symphony perform at an outdoor theater which will conclude with a fireworks show.  Nothing makes me happier than watching fireworks.

Today also marks a change in the way I'm going to do the photoblog, at least for a little while.  When I began doing themes three and a half years ago at my old photoblog home the reasons were twofold.  First I had a horrible backlog of photos.  I kept photos around in a maybe some day file that grew and grew.  With themes I could share my favorite five, put the rest on Flickr and be done with that set.  It was a great way to cut down on the backlog. The second reason that I moved to themes was that I loved photoblogs that have multiple photos in one post that told a story. When you see four, five, six photos together with one theme or from one event or with one storyline it is so much more powerful to me than one photo a day.  That is probably a personal thing for me, but while I loved it I could not do it with my old setup so I compromised and did one photo a day with the theme spread over the week.

As soon as I moved to Pixyblog I was able to put multiple photos in a post, but I was quite happy with my theme a week life and had no reason to change.  But all good things grow, evolve and change and so it will be with my photoblog posting.  I once again have a huge backlog, this time of themes.  I could post a different theme every week from now until the end of September and not have to take another new photo in that time period. That knowledge has put a dent in my photo taking and my photo sharing.  I hesitate to take photos because I already have so many to share.  I need to clear the backlog out and I finally have the capabilities to present the photos in a multiple photo format.

Thus I've decided that I will now post multiple images in one post.  A theme that used to take a week can now be done in one day.  This will mean that I will not be posting every day.  Actually I could post a new theme every day for two weeks and have plenty, but I'm not doing that.  I don't want to set up a definite posting schedule, but for the foreseeable future it will be two to three times a week.  The photos I feel tell the best story together will be on the photoblog and the rest will go on Flickr.  I think this change will enable me to share my adventures in a much more timely manner (I still have photos from March I haven't posted).  There may be some bumps along the road as I figure out the system, but I am looking forward to a new way of seeing and a new way of sharing.  I hope you will come along for the ride.