Poor Little Neglected Photographs | Re-photo

I wrote this submit some months in the past however after I tried to publish it not one of the footage appeared. They appear to be working now, although I’m preserving my fingers crossed.

Poor Little Neglected Photographs: I’m usually requested “Is it value placing pictures on Flickr?” My reply is it is dependent upon why you are taking footage, what you {photograph} and what you anticipate to get out of it.

To state what I feel is clear, I don’t make a dwelling out of Flickr, although I do get the occasional sale as a result of individuals have discovered my footage by means of it. It’s really getting a little bit embarrassing now, as I shut down my enterprise after Covid and I feel I’m going to must re-open it as a consequence of growing gross sales.

However what I’ve at all times wished to do is to share my pictures with different individuals, and Flickr is actually doing that. Once I was penning this some months in the past there have been over 45,000 views of my footage on Flickr in a single day, and plenty of days there are over 10,000 views. In whole I’ve now had over 15 million views of my footage there.

In fact it isn’t the identical as a gallery present, however most of these I’ve taken half in over time have been fortunate to get 100 guests coming to view them in a day. So Flickr can get your work seen, and seen by a really a lot wider vary of individuals than have an interest sufficient to enter a gallery to see images.

Although I’ve to say that a few of these individuals see very various things within the footage than what me and what I used to be attempting to say after I made the image.

I don’t thoughts this. Generally they provide me details about the scene which I used to be completely unaware of – and infrequently it provides one thing to my appreciation. Typically I get feedback that are very private to the viewers who could have lived or labored in someplace that I photographed and it maybe provides one other layer to my view of the picture, in addition to being pleasing that they discovered it of curiosity.

However there are some issues I don’t like. Individuals who share my pictures on social media with out naming me because the photographer is probably the highest of the listing, and if anybody ought to dare to colorize considered one of my black and white pictures I would to moved to take out a contract on them. As far as I’m conscious it hasn’t occurred but.

However whereas my most considered pictures have been seen over 20,000 instances (one now 35,699 views) there are additionally a number of which have apparently by no means been considered in any respect.

They aren’t any worse than most of my different footage – and in any case how would anybody know with out viewing them. I feel it might really replicate some small glitches in Flickr’s recording of views, as after I click on on them within the Flickr report it really states “No latest stats accessible for this photograph” and I’m pretty certain some at the very least can have been seen by some individuals.

However right here, illustrating this submit. are among the fifteen pictures which had apparently by no means been seen after I wrote this submit a number of months in the past. And after writing I found why – Flickr had modified their privateness settings to non-public. Not me – all of my pictures are uploaded as public. Someway a stray bit or byte of their database had flipped. I’ve simply checked once more and located a special half-dozen pictures hidden in the identical method.

Flickr has an inexpensive search facility (although sometimes it goes haywire) and nearly all of my pictures are keyworded. If you wish to know if I’ve taken an image of your road or city – or the rest – merely click on this hyperlink to Flickr and kind my title adopted by what you need to discover within the search field on the high of the web page.

So to seek out if I’ve photographed Pegasus merely kind:

Peter Marshall Pegasus

into the search field – and it ought to discover all seven. Londoners specifically could discover it helpful to go looking on the names of London boroughs on this method.

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