Lawrence Ripsher's Photo Journal

It's been a while

It's been too long since I updated this blog. Things have been quite busy on the photography front - I've simply been too busy to post. The main update is that I've left Singapore and now live in Seattle, WA. Been here for 3 weeks and will remain for several years. As I  look out of my window at the six inches of snow that fell last night, it's hitting home at just how different this place will be from a photographic point of view. Photographers in the area - if you're interested in reaching out, please don't hesitate to send me a mail. I'd be more than happy to chew over creative ideas of subjects, locations, etc out here.

More posts coming soon.

No time to post

I've had virtually no time to post on either here or my site www.lostinfocus.org (although if you do get a chance to visit there, the other members are busy producing fantastic photography as always) as of late. One of the reason for me being busy is because I've begun shooting on set of a major US TV production. I'll udpate more on that shortly. 

In the meantime, a number of people have emailed me asking me to post any more LX3 shots. I've not done any serious photography with it since the review but I did find a few snaps in the camera (many of my dogs). These are posted below.

Stats in February

February saw the completion of my first full month of writing on this blog. I started in early January with plenty of enthusiasm and I'm glad to say that my initial questions of whether I would be able to keep the early momentum of posting regularly have since faded.

It's been a great place for me to share pictures / shoots as well as post occasional Along the way, I've had a couple of unexpected twists. Getting an Olympus SP-550 and being the first site on the net to provide an in-depth review saw the number of hits, visitors and comments increase dramatically. This site isn't intended to be a review site, but hey - if pretty fun to occasionally talk about gear.

Anyway, thought I would kick off March by sharing some stats from the past few weeks. Highlights follow (all for the month of Feb):

- Number of entries I wrote: 25
- Number of visitors: > 41,000
- Number of hits: > 210,000
- Percentage of returning visitors: 30%
- Number of visits from the US: > 9,000
- Number of visits from the Nepal: 1
- The country which has the highest average number of page views per visit: Netherlands (6.8 pages / visit)
- The number of people who found this blog by typing in "Lawrence Ripsher" on Google: 33
- Number of people who will find this information interesting: 1 (forecast)

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