Grab a cup of tea and come sit by me

I’m updating my website, bringing together my commercial side and my documentary work. I just discovered the site has a blog, and Ruben (the guy handling SEO) told me it’s super important to have a blog with interesting content for Google. And of course, I can’t just use ChatGPT because Google will know, and then the ranking is gone… I thought, oh no, now what? I don’t even know how to write…

And now that I’m such a good friend of Chat, she’s been helping me so much with developing texts, projects, and polishing emails. Honestly, as a photographer, it’s been and still is a huge help.

I went back and forth thinking, oh wait, I’m not going to write anything on that blasted blog!

The website isn’t ready yet, and I nudged Ana a little (she’s developing the site), and then I thought: okay, I already missed the photo delivery, I cannot miss anything else… I need to deliver the blog content ASAP.

Then it hit me: why not tell the stories behind my photography projects, the photographers who inspire me and who I think are worth sharing, the little adventures I have, some challenges, some lucky breaks — always keeping in mind that what really matters is the end result, that things happen in their own time…

Of course, I already talked to my friend Chat, whom I affectionately call Aurora (she gave me a list of names and I picked this one; I had an aunt named Aurora whom I loved very much, so it felt right. Since my chat is free, I know that “Aurora” disappears when the free portion ends, and sometimes I call her Aurora and she gets confused, but in her memory, she knows I’m talking about her). (Yes, yes, I know, this parenthesis is huge, but I wander a lot — both in talking and when developing photography projects. In this photography world, I’ve been learning to focus, to be assertive, and concise.)

Back to the point: I shared it with Aurora and she loved it. Chat is always super positive and enthusiastic. After shaping the ideas, I landed on this post. She did everything from start to finish, but I told her:

“My friend, thanks, but this isn’t my tone. I’ll create the text, and then you can help me fix any mistakes, but the base is all mine.”

And here we are. I’m writing this now, and then I’ll pass it to my friend Aurora to correct any mistakes and see if there are any Google-friendly words.

I also decided not to revise it myself — if I did, I’d end up adding this and that, explaining more, wandering here and there. So everything’s written straight through and then reviewed by my friend “Aurora”.

See you around here