I was just sitting here getting ready to close the book on a pretty terrible day when it occurred to me that I have been neglecting my blog this week, which is a shame. The blog serves a weird purpose in my life. I started to blog on a regular basis for work. When we started Future Snowboarding Magazine we were encouraged by the big bosses to embrace all kinds of web shit that would help benefit the traffic to the magazine. I've always written, and I had some pretty good updates on Snowboard.com way back at the turn of the century, so this was just another one of those things.

Pretty soon though my words were more on Myspace than anywhere related to the magazine, and when I launched my website last fall I moved over a few of the posts but mostly started from scratch. Folks who are much smarter than I am write interesting articles that tell me that blogging is a good way to keep your name high on search engines. Sometimes that comes into account, but mostly it doesn't.

Mostly I guess I just have an urge to put photos up that maybe would never have a home, and to say words that aren't that interesting to anyone who I come in daily contact with. Maybe I'm just having a Pump up the Volume fantasy and think that tons of people are paying attention (actually, thanks to google analytics I know exactly how many people are reading and when that number hits triple digits I consider it a success.) (also, thanks to my subscribers)

In the end, I get some really interesting emails from strangers, and some people tell me that they really look forward to them. On a crap day like today, knowing that someone else is stoked on something I've done is reason enough.

This is my (soon to be) brother-in-law Paul wake surfing with Willamina while T coaches. Family time. We had a really fun weekend and I met some good people.


-d

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I'm Dano. I was born Daniel but the name never stuck and around the time I started selling photos I got hit with the "Dano" nickname and it has stuck ever since. I've been shooting photos professionally since 1991 when I quit my last "real" job at the local one-hour photo.

I've mainly shot snowboarding over the years but have shot a lot of travel and am newly interested in underwater photography. Over the course of my career I've shot for every major snowboard company and magazine and I even spent the last few years launching a snowboard magazine, http://www.futuresnowboarding.com

I'm based in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada, and the all my work is informed by the spectacular natural environment in which I was raised. I like to think that I take some of it with me even when I'm traveling. Although it may be a little harder to find underwater in Roatan than it is in my work from home...

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