davidc wrote:As you can tell his articles don't hugely appeal
Would you believe that he makes his living from the blog? In his defence, I would say that he usually posts five times a week, which is quite a feat in finding subjects to write about. I suspect, though, that to an extent he is living on past glories. A while back, he moved twice in the space of a year, relocating to a completely different part of the country the second occasion. Up to time of the moves, he was usually an interesting read. Since that time, he has never consistently recaptured what he had previously.
Nevertheless, he has a long association with photographic journalism and is still one of the better bloggers out there. When he puts his mind to it, he can write about aspects of photography others ignore. Too frequently these days, though, he does resort to writing about equipment and there have been a too few many such posts recently.