a big thank you to everyone

Seen in retrospect, 2011 was a great year, with a number of exciting things happening.

The one thing that I take great pride in is in how many people read and even follow the Tangents blog. It’s both inspiring and humbling to know that a great number of photographers across the world continue to find this website of so much value. This is where the graphic at the top comes in – the number of visitors to the Tangents blog during the Oct-Dec quarter. During Oct to Dec 2011, there were 446,640 visits to the site.

In 2010, there were 372,000 visits for the last 3 months of the year.
In 2009 there were 251,000 visits for the final quarter of the year.

Again it’s been a massive jump in traffic to this website for 2011. (As an aside, the reason why I look at the 4th quarter and not the entire year, is that at the start of 2009, I changed domain names from planetneil and it was simpler to look at only part of the year’s traffic.)

So thank you to everyone who follows the Tangents blog and forum, and participate and ask questions and even reply to questions. You all help make this site what it is.

Other highlights of 2011 …

1. My book, Off-Camera Flash, was published early in 2011. Feedback so far is very good. As a reminder, if you have the book and love it, a positive review on Amazon always helps.

2. The Tangents Forum continues to be active, with traffic more than doubling through the course of the year.

3. My photography page on Facebook surpassed a 7,000 total of fans during the last few days of the year.

3. There were the flash photography workshops that I presented in New York, as well as San Francisco and even two sold-out workshops in Dublin, Ireland.

4. I did various seminar presentations during the year:
- After Dark Photography Education – Cincinnati & Charlotte
- masterclass at WPPI 2011 (in Las Vegas) – Feb 2011
- Imaging USA 2011 (in San Antonio) - Jan 2011
- Digital Wedding Forum Convention 2011 (also in San Antonio) – Jan 2011
- presenting at the Unique Photo booth at Photo Plus Expo in New York – Oct 2011
- as one of the keynote speakers at the Wedding Photographic Society Convention (in North Carolina) – Aug 2011
- PPA Massachusetts, annual convention – March 2011
- PPGNY – June 2011
- Photo North East – March 2011
- Treehaven, Wisconsin PPA – May 2011
- webinars for ClickinMoms

5. I also made sure that I focused attention on my work as a wedding photographer. With that, I had my web techie guy kick my Latest Work blog into gear again.

6. All the new friends and acquaintances I made throughout the year.

thank you!

Neil vN

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