For a while now I’ve been posting some of my photos on Flickr and I highly recommend it.
While I’m not much of a photographer, every so often someone wants to see something I’ve photographed. –By putting the photos on Flickr I no longer have to sort through several directories on several backup devices, edit the shots and then print or email them. And while I haven’t posted all my photos by a long shot, I’ve posted enough of my latest so I can send my friends to Flickr and if they want something I haven’t already posted this makes it look like I’m trying and will eventually get the rest up. –This of course is pure B.S. I’m not about to scan and post several thousand slides, prints and digital images -most of them bad- but it seems to keep people happy and out from under foot.
What surprises me are the shots people have shown an interest in. The Edgewater poker room seems to be viewed with the most consistency. This is an incredibly small room that I shot early in the morning while it was empty. –It’s probably just because of the word “poker” in the title.
All I know is for sure is that there seems to be some kind of a rule that says if I think it’s really interesting nobody else even looks at it.
So far I haven’t joined any groups so on an average day, I’ll get a handful of referrers from this site with an occasional hit from Flickr. But yesterday, instead of my usual 10 – 14 views (and then only on those days I post new photos) I got 54, all from Flickr?? I don’t know how or why they found me, but with a few million users there’s bound to be the occasional anomaly.
Who knows, maybe I’ll become famous….
