What Drives Me To Do This

Helping you and your long term best interests are my first and only priority. No one pays me anything for anything. I'm enthusiastic because I've loved and been working on cars since I was 16 years old, not because anyone's paying me.

I've had an insatiable curiosity and fascination with all this ever since birth. That's why I research everything and publish it all.

I do this because I love to share. I dream about what I'm going to write whenever I am working on a new project, then I hit the keyboard and don't stop untill my next article is complete. I want everyone to be able to enjoy working on their car as much as I do. People think I'm crazy spending so many hours at this, and they're probably right. Your generosity helps me justify all the time I spend sharing everything I know for free.

I started this site for fun in June 2008 to share what I know. With generous support I've been able to create many articles to help the Porsche community work on their cars. The reason for these pleas is that if I [...] I won't be able to add as much as I do today.

Sadly, the other very popular photo sites that started back in the 1990s as hobbies like this site are now run by corporations and have degraded mostly to chat rooms put up to sell ads (and letting the readers write the content), not adding much original content themselves. I'm still the real thing. It's just me and only me working away here, and that's why I need all the help I can get.

Businesses are always approaching me with get rich quick schemes which would make them, and presumably me, more money, but it would make this site less useful to you. I won't have any part of it. I make plenty of money today to keep me from having to get a real job, so the last thing I'm going to do is make you have to click through 27 new pages with ads just to read one review. The only reason I have to break up some of my longer reviews is because the software I use blows up if one web page, like my Nikon D3 Review, gets to be longer than about 25 printed pages. My site probably sets some record for the longest run-on pages.

That's why everything on this site is free to read. It's important to me that everyone in every corner of the globe can benefit from what I have to share. I don't have any plans to start charging for books or tests or downloads. I come from broadcasting where we spend buckets of money on making the best programs we can, and then giving them away for free. We make it up on volume. I believe in the same thing.

If it's a stretch, please don't feel obligated to send me anything. It is for you that I keep everything free.

If you insist, of course I greatly appreciate gifts. I use these PayPal contributions to buy older equipment to review and old literature to illuminate details of the older gear people have been unloading on me. I kid you not: I've spent over $100 on new lens and body caps for the old stuff people send me! It seems what comes in via paypal goes right back out over eBay to help fill out my reviews.

Every single contribution, regardless of how trivial it may seem, is an enormous help since I'm just one guy. (I'm not a tax deduction; in fact, I pay income taxes on everything you send me!) I genuinely and personally appreciate each and every bit you might like to share to help me help everyone. You may use these links:

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Everything is here for you to read for free. I don't charge because I want everyone to benefit.

Feel free to share something every month automatically. Donations are a more accurate description than subscriptions. You don't need to donate to read anything. Paying for a subscription gets you nothing other than my ability to keep writing even more.

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Many thanks,

Blake