A friend came to visit last weekend so my friend and I took him down to Monterey, Ca. He’s from Spain and this was his first visit to California, let alone the states. It was a pretty action packed adventure. After heading to the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco for some live funk music, we drove down to Monterey to stay with a friend down there. She took us to a small cafe to see this crazy musician who plays the cello like a madman, Tornado Rider. Holy cow, that was crazy.

The next day, we hit up Pebble Beach and Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Beach. We actually had decent weather for January. On Monday we scored some passes to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. If you have never been, this is a must go place if you are anywhere near San Francisco visiting. It’s a great aquarium. I took over 250 photos that day – yikes! I only posted a handful of the best ones over on my Canon s95 Photo Blog.

It was a great weekend!

I bought a Canon S95 camera last year for my trip to Central America. After watching and reading a few reviews, I was convinced to splurge a bit on this high-end point and click camera. I liked it because I didn’t have to haul a big SLR around while backpacking, but it also has high performance abilities and lots of options to take more control over what you shoot. The price was a little steep, at the time it was $400 (now it’s more like $300), but it was, and still is, worth every penny.

Taking a lot of pictures, I wanted to find a great way to showcase the best shots, rather then just dumping them into Flickr, which I was doing for a little while. I had been using Tumblr for my travel blog and I liked it’s simplicity and flexibility. So since July I’ve been photoblogging my best photographs on Tumblr and it is going great.

My photos are now being enjoyed by lots of people around the world, made possible by Tumblr. Similar to Twitter, Tumblr has a unique discovery engine which makes good content go viral. So everyday I post new photos and check to see which photos are getting “liked” and “reblogged,” and who’s subscribing to me. I’ve also hooked up FotoMoto to Tumblr so if anyone wants to make prints or share my photos, they can easily do so, and I get a percentage.

That’s pretty much my photoblogging strategy. I’m really just doing it for fun, because I love to take photos. Do you have a photoblog? What do you use? Curious minds want to know.