u/matthew_b101

Hey everyone! Just moved out to LA from Colorado with my family. I’m a landscape photographer always looking to get out into the local trails and mountains, and I'd love to connect with some like-minded outdoorsy folks in the area.

I’m down for longer, more strenuous day hikes, or shorter/milder loops with my kiddo on my back in a carrier.If anyone’s looking for a hiking buddy, wants to shoot photos, or just has good local trail recommendations to share, let me know!

As the title states, I am a landscape photographer who has been discouraged/disheartened by social media, so I made my own website a few years ago. Within the past year or so, I've started to get into blogging on my site, with five different posts and a sixth one in the works. Posts are a collection of my thoughts from trips as well as reflective thoughts on trends (AI, convenience culture, etc).

I would love to know some tips or tricks from the community on how to expand the site's reach and drive more traffic. I've read some articles from Google searches, but would love to hear from you all on what could make my site more successful. I will say each page does have alt-text for images and SEO descriptions, but from looking at my own analytics idk if it's made much of a difference.

I also would love to hear your thoughts if there's anything you all would recommend to easily drive traffic to the stories page from the homepage (Right now it's a drop-down option on mobile).

Site is barronerphoto.com

Thank you all!