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Why Bloggers and Photographers should start an email newsletter—I’m starting one and here’s why

I started this photography and travel blog 8 years ago after a trip to New Zealand.

The blogging world was a different beast back then. It was the golden age of blogs. People went to the internet to look for educational, inspirational and entertaining content from reputable blogs and websites.

Readers were looking for high quality content to help them get better at photography, plan more trips or figure out top rated activities to do on their holidays.

in 2025, things has completely changed.

These days, there is an overwhelming amount of free information at our finger tips and from endless sources.

I mentioned in my 2024 year in review post that I’m planning to start a newsletter in 2025 to complement the Travelling Lens blog.

Today, I want to dive into this thought process more

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2024 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2025

Happy new year!

It’s 2 weeks into 2025 and I’ve finally completed my year in review post for 2024.

2024 was a huge year of travel for us.

Mostly they were road trips across Canada and the USA.

I’ve easily added 2 terabytes of travel photos to my backlog in Adobe Lightroom.

By January or February 2024, we finally felt settled into a routine and rhythm for life in the USA. That gave us the time and energy to focus more time towards organising more ambitious trips and travel planning compared to the previous year.

It was not all smooth sailing in though…

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Reflections on 12 Months in the USA: The Highs and Lows as an Aussie Expat Living and Travelling Around the USA

12 month ago, we made the wild decision to move across the world to Texas, USA.

It’s been truly an adventure with many highs and lows. From the chaos of packing and moving, flight cancellations and learning to drive ignoring speed limits. To stunning landscapes, delicious food and sipping cocktails by a Mexican beach with friends.

There is nothing like moving away from your comfort zone to grow as a human.

To move away from familiarity, family, friends, career, home and society norms you understand.

To a similar yet vastly different country has been eye opening (to say the least)

Today, is a big essay. I’ll be sharing some highlights and challenges over the last 12 months of living and travelling based out of Texas, USA.

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2023 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2023

It’s been a while since I last updated this blog.

2023 was a big year of change, growth and life transitions. Some planned and a lot unplanned. Some good and some not so good. But all in all, there were many things to be grateful for. The fact that I’m writing this blog post in the comfort of my new home is a privilege in itself.

I even considered shutting down this blog in 2023 since I haven’t had a lot of time to commit to it. But then a big life change happened…. we’ve moved quite literally across the world to another country in the second half of 2023. More specifically the United States.

There’s a lot of unpack there (figuratively and literally), but I’ll keep my Year In Review focused on the theme of this blog — travelling and photography.

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Belated 2022 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2023

I can’t believe almost 5 months has gone by in 2023!

It’s been a whirlwind of a year on a personal and professional front, which meant I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to personal photography and this blog. As months go by, I’ve contemplated skipping my yearly review.

But I have shared an annual review on this blog for the last 6 years (since the inception of this blog back in 2016) and I’m keen to continue the tradition even if it’s 5 months late!

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