Ad switching

I’ve decided to remove Adsense from the site. It was simply too intrusive, and often completely misunderstood the content of a post. The last straw was the original title of my earlier post of a green metallic bee; they’re also called sweat bees, so the site was plastered with ads for sweat disorder treatments. Not only would I not expect anyone to come to this site for that kind of information, I personally wouldn’t return to a photography site advertising that… I know I could probably take the time to filter out all but photography-related ads, but in the end it wasn’t worth it for me.

My secondary goal of this website is still to offset a portion of my photography costs, so I’ve replaced the old ads with Amazon links. If you purchase something through the links on this site, I’ll earn a small referral fee. On the sidebar is a list of items I personally would use and recommend (and most of them are used to create the content on this site), and there’s a general Amazon search box as well. From time to time I may include a referral link to a piece of gear I review or at least talk about here. I’ll never do this for anything I personally wouldn’t buy or recommend — the purpose of the ads is to support the site, not the other way around.