talk about a revolution · 2006-10-17 09:22
I’ve just reached 150,000 views of my photos on Flickr. I was hoping to have put 10,000 photos up by then, but it wasn’t to be, even with a last minute spurt from being in Oslo. Still, 9,420 photos is far more than I’d have imagined putting on the Internet just a few years ago.
The most recent picture is particularly apropos:
So, at least 1,139 pictures of food, 481 lunches, 186 desserts, 82 signs and 32 pictures of me.
It’s easy to forget how much photography has changed in the last 2 or 3 years. Digital cameras have completely wiped out film, and we’re already seeing the process happen again with cameraphones replacing point-and-shoot cameras. At the other end of the market, SLRs and professional equipment are now available to far more people. I played with Adobe Lightroom last night, and was stunned at how much you can now improve images digitally on home computers, without losing the sense of reality that used to accompany digital manipulation.
Most important is that people have found ways to share photos easily, with their friends, family, and the world at large. After several years (before Flickr came along), I’d got a few hundred photos online, but it was hard to manage, took up lots of space and bandwidth, and wasn’t fun. Now, I have so many more photos, seen by so many more people, and it’s truly amazing. I also look back at my photos far more, and remember the stories and circumstances that surround the photos.
I’m not saying it’s just because of Flickr, but that’s my weapon of choice – it felt right to me, and it attracted my friends and family in a similar way. Quite simply, there’s more people taking more pictures, more people looking at pictures, and more conversations started from photos, and that’s a great thing.
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Right on!
And congrats with the 150k. Back in the old days only photos from pro photographers was viewed and shared on that scale. This is something genuinely new.