Welcome to Lens Diaries™ social network.  While Lens Diaries™ was intended as a photoblog for myself, I decided to make it a more proactive and beneficial user experience.  With Facebook surpassing 500 million users, it’s easy for photographers to get lost in social media networks.

Networking is valuable for photographers.  We are not here to copy Facebook.  Not hardly.  The concept is simple, to create a user-friendly social and educational environment for those passionate about photography.  Within this environment, my goals are to seek a few contributors for adding beneficial blog posts and eventually open up “groups” with common interests, i.e., “Canon Users Group,” etc.

For now I ask for your patience, help spread the word about Lens Diaries™ and soon you’ll have the ability to upload images in addition to more photography tips and tutorials.  We ask that you do the following:

• 1.  Register for free here: Join LensDiaries.com then come back to this page and do steps 2 through 4.
• 2.  Go to your profile by simply using the menu at the top left of Lens Diaries.  Go to “My Account” then “Profile” then “Edit Profile.”  Please enter all information and also be sure to click on the links, “Contact Information, Social Networks, Work and Education,” and fill in that information too. This will help us better serve you and your interests when it comes to our site and photography.
• 3.  By default, if you don’t have an avatar with Gravatar, our system uploads a random avatar for you, usually this looks crummy and it’s just basically a place holder—so upload an avatar by going to the same top left menu then, “My Account” then “Profile” then “Change Avatar.”
• 4.  Friend request all your friends here on our network. Just go to their profile and friend request them! This will also allow you to follow their activity stream.

That’s it for now, more soon.  Just stay-tuned, tweet and Facebook-like the blog posts, visit often, link to us and join our email list too!  Thanks! Rolando