It's looking much better from when I last looked at it. (Viewing from a 1280p screen)
It's just my opinions, so don't feel pressured to follow whatever ideas I might pass on with my thoughts.
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In this particular picture, I like how the content portion stands out with it's orange colour. It makes for a good contrast - I wouldn't mind if all the following pictures next to the content were warm but colorful like this. This first screen made me feel like going ahead and reading what you've got. But as I went down, I lost interest. Let me show you what I mean:
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Now this is a little bit bland - dark and white, a sort of negative contrast from the solid professional looking initial screen up top. It just feels bland and I'm not sure if just a more colorful picture alone would be enough to create that atmosphere I was hit with initially.
I know how important empty spaces are, but I'd like there to be a little more than just dark grey on the sides even if the picture next to the content was colorful. Something like a blurry background image that's not distracting but rather there just to follow up with the atmosphere from the upper screen. Not even this what I suggested, but something, with the main goal being getting that first screen atmosphere throughout the whole site, not just the one place I inevitably have to scroll away from. Maybe have that first blue'ish forest as a blurred image inside the dark boxes where the text is? Together with a good contrast picture, they'd make for a good start to jump in from...
Again, that's just me. I'm pretty sure my tastes are kind of different from most. I tend to not follow what other people like but rather what I myself find pleasant. Maybe there's a certain way famous bloggers design their things of which I've got no clue about hence my taste here wouldn't apply to most, or something along such possibilities....