I am wondering how to react to Flickr's decision to limit free accounts to 1000 images. Forget Flickr? Or jump in and get a Pro account? If the latter maybe I will go the whole hog and bin my "vanity" website and domain etc. What do folk actually need a web "presence" for? (For context, I am looking to reduce my expenses - subscriptions etc and simplify my existence.)
Thoughts ... ??
For myself, it, the website, began as an exercise in looking backwards to see whether I had really existed, or was trapped in a dream without foundation.
Having decided that yes, I had existed, and that I was willing to accept my remaining images as some sort of proof of that, I then realised that the website offered an even better real-time solution to another problem altogether: it gave me a spot where I could easily access my images, wherever I was in the world, without having to look at my own backups on HDs.
If there is one grave downside, to the Weebly system at least (the only one I know), it's that though it lets me see the pictures, it does not let me discover my own file numbers. I contacted Weebly, who at first didn't understand the question, and then offered that they knew of no solution.
I sometimes look at a shot on the website and think hey, how would it look if I did this, that and the other to it? But, I can never find that image file without looking through all my backups until I find the actual one. With several thousand on file, it's not a route I am often willing to journey: I'd have lost enthusiasm after the first few folders of snaps. At best, I do a screen grab and muck about with that, which is no wonderful solution, as you can imagine.
Another thing: if you are working as a photographer, especially in the beginning of a career, I suggest that you show only work-related images; you won't have the pro gravitas that makes your personal work interesting to possible clients.
That said, if you have no reasonable hopes of commercial work, no interest in it, then show whatever you want to show: it's for you, not for somebody else.
Rob