To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
Well, folks, it is now the time to pluck up the City Daily Photo portal. The vendor that supplied the software gizmos that provided daily blog updates has terminated the service. The monthly themes that once attracted more than a hundred participants now interest only a couple of dozen. Many longtime CDP bloggers have left the arena. Others have migrated toward Instagram or elsewhere. Blogs are less often photographers' online medium of choice. And, the volunteers who have kept this thing going are themselves tired and distracted by other interests and responsibilities.
Yes, it is time. Time to pluck that which has been planted. This is the last new post on the CDP portal. It will stay up until it doesn't. This photo is the one that CDP's founder, Eric Tenin, posted on December 31, 2014, when he wrapped up ten years of Paris Daily Photo and signed off.
Facebook offers a "City Daily Photo" group page where many stalwart CDP members continue to post links to their daily photographic offerings. If you have not yet joined, take a look and see if that is where you can look (if you are a looker) or where you can post your photography (if you are a photographer and a poster).
Let's thank Eric for stimulating so many of us to prowl our cities looking for people, places and things to photograph and celebrate. And let's thank Julie for taking up the reins after Eric for several years until health challenges sidelined her. And we all owe a big debt of gratitude to Peter for teaching himself the technology necessary to keep the portal up and running (and for paying the fees to maintain the domain and the various feeds). Not to mention the debt we owe Peter for years of applying the bandaids and bubblegum that kept the portal from falling apart in its waning years.
I'm Jack and it has been (mostly) fun for me to write a couple of news items each month and to come up with the monthly themes for several years. Recently I passed the tenth year since I retired from employment and ten years since I started my own CDP blog. Farewell! My grandchildren call.
We have had so much fun keeping Austin, Texas Daily Photo up and running since 2007. Every day we have looked around the world to see what is happening from Stanwood, WA to Paris. Many, many thanks to those of you who shouldered the burden of keeping the site viable. "May the road rise to meet you!"--Forrest and Linda in Austin
ReplyDeleteThanks to all who put in all the effort to keep City Daily Photo going. You've done wonderful work for years.
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