I'm not a web addict, I use it for research, and shopping. I almost never just follow links to see where they go. That's due in more or less equal parts to: natural inclination, past experience, and focus.
I do occasionally browse around looking at photographers web sites. This is usually the result of researching something else photography related (sadly this is all to often equipment). I've noticed something that seems to be oddly common with photographers, either they don't say anything about their work, or they display titles, which more often than appear as "Untitled #1", "Untitled #87" or simply "Untitled".
I'm not sure if this is a sign of laziness, or a sign that the photographer doesn't spend time thinking about their own work. Abstracts are difficult, unless you treat them like an ink blot test, well even then they're difficult to title. My titles tend toward giving some hint of what made me photograph the scene. Sometimes I get lazy and title things with numbers, a venerable tradition but perhaps one that doesn't really tell the viewer anything. Generally though, the scene evoked a feeling and the feeling invoked a though that literally made me photograph it. Sometimes the emotion was warm and the though was fuzzy and the image was.... not nearly as good as it seemed at the time. Fuzzy thoughts do that.
A picture says a thousand words, the question is: What thousand words? As the photographer we have an opportunity to at least set the tone for the first paragraph. Each viewer will walk away with something a bit different, but I personally would rather they started walking in the direction I had intended when I made the image.
