Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
I love Flickr in the sense that its a good, cheap place to host a LOT of photos, at whatever resolution you want, its easy to link to from just about anywhere else, and its an easy way to share stuff with other photographers who's taste you somewhat share - ie, the contacts list.
But there's this whole other dimension to Flickr that I find amazingly random and confusing. SOOOO many "groups" for every sub-genre of photography, for example. And so many other things I've never heard of that suddenly can take hold of one or two of your photographs. I posted a bunch of shots yesterday from some street shooting I did Thursday in Philly. I haven't linked them to any other web sites yet - I probably will at some point. But SOMEONE found one of these shots and added it to something called "Explore", which I'd never heard of. And suddenly a zillion people are evidently seeing it and adding it to their favorites list and commenting on it and stuff. I like the shot well enough - I thought enough of it to process and post. But I like other stuff I've done more. And suddenly this has been sort of launched. First of all, who goes through and finds all of the photos for "Explore" - there are hundreds that make their list each day it seems. And then, WHO is spending the time to go through those hundreds of shots every day to stumble onto mine? Something similar happend to another shot of mine a while back - it wasn't explore, it was something else I don't even remember now. And suddenly my email box was full of all of these Flickr notifications.
Very strange. Its like there's a whole world there that I don't even know about and then once in a great while I get grabbed by one of its tentacles and sucked into it for a few days. But that stuff must be happening every day! A lot of people are spending too much time on this stuff - they could be out shooting! I'm sure the storm will subside by tomorrow when there's a new batch of photos to "explore", but for now, I'm inundated... On the one hand, I suppose I'm slightly flattered, but I'm mostly annoyed that all of this can happen without any say on my part other than to just post a bunch of photos like I frequently do...
-Ray
But there's this whole other dimension to Flickr that I find amazingly random and confusing. SOOOO many "groups" for every sub-genre of photography, for example. And so many other things I've never heard of that suddenly can take hold of one or two of your photographs. I posted a bunch of shots yesterday from some street shooting I did Thursday in Philly. I haven't linked them to any other web sites yet - I probably will at some point. But SOMEONE found one of these shots and added it to something called "Explore", which I'd never heard of. And suddenly a zillion people are evidently seeing it and adding it to their favorites list and commenting on it and stuff. I like the shot well enough - I thought enough of it to process and post. But I like other stuff I've done more. And suddenly this has been sort of launched. First of all, who goes through and finds all of the photos for "Explore" - there are hundreds that make their list each day it seems. And then, WHO is spending the time to go through those hundreds of shots every day to stumble onto mine? Something similar happend to another shot of mine a while back - it wasn't explore, it was something else I don't even remember now. And suddenly my email box was full of all of these Flickr notifications.
Very strange. Its like there's a whole world there that I don't even know about and then once in a great while I get grabbed by one of its tentacles and sucked into it for a few days. But that stuff must be happening every day! A lot of people are spending too much time on this stuff - they could be out shooting! I'm sure the storm will subside by tomorrow when there's a new batch of photos to "explore", but for now, I'm inundated... On the one hand, I suppose I'm slightly flattered, but I'm mostly annoyed that all of this can happen without any say on my part other than to just post a bunch of photos like I frequently do...
-Ray