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Steve Cooke said:
Mine is here, but I have only just opened it.
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Welcome to the Flickr community! Love the barn owl in flight shot. I assume you saw, but some of your shots have the EXIF data stripped. Not sure if these are your older ones? Something you might look out for when processing them. I find it very useful to see the data.
 
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ricardo00 said:
Welcome to the Flickr community! Love the barn owl in flight shot. I assume you saw, but some of your shots have the EXIF data stripped. Not sure if these are your older ones? Something you might look out for when processing them. I find it very useful to see the data.
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Thank you Ricardo. I have only just recently started saving EXIF with images. Previously I just exported from PS which strips the EXIF. I have many that I will post without EXIF, but am making sure as I go forward that the data is saved.
 
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I have had a Flickr account for many years but seldom use it. Months, even years go by without activity. I'm not sure how to build traffic or if that is even possible or a goal. In short, I don't know what Flickr is for.

At one time, way back when it was free, I thought it might be a good place to set up albums for different types of photos - family, glamour, birds, artsy stuff, and so on. I had a few thousand photos uploaded. Then they introduced the pay version. I had to reduce the collection. I wouldn't mind paying if there was some use to it, but I don't think anybody ever visited my Flickr account and I couldn't identify a use.

I still have my account, but it is untended and a mess, so I won't give the link here for now.

I have two IG accounts and both accounts in the last couple of months got warnings about my use of the site. They seem to be very nervous over there! :( I wasn't doing anything wrong, and they never carried out the threats. (Just today IG auto-locked me out and then auto-released the lock two and a half hours later all with little explanation and unbeknownst to me except I read IG's emails later.) So it makes me think of getting a better place, and maybe it should be Flickr.
 
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Archibald said:
I have had a Flickr account for many years but seldom use it. Months, even years go by without activity. I'm not sure how to build traffic or if that is even possible or a goal. In short, I don't know what Flickr is for.

At one time, way back when it was free, I thought it might be a good place to set up albums for different types of photos - family, glamour, birds, artsy stuff, and so on. I had a few thousand photos uploaded. Then they introduced the pay version. I had to reduce the collection. I wouldn't mind paying if there was some use to it, but I don't think anybody ever visited my Flickr account and I couldn't identify a use.

I still have my account, but it is untended and a mess, so I won't give the link here for now.

I have two IG accounts and both accounts in the last couple of months got warnings about my use of the site. They seem to be very nervous over there! :( I wasn't doing anything wrong, and they never carried out the threats. (Just today IG auto-locked me out and then auto-released the lock two and a half hours later all with little explanation and unbeknownst to me except I read IG's emails later.) So it makes me think of getting a better place, and maybe it should be Flickr.
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Someone else described Flickr as Facebook for photographers. I think it CAN be a community that you join of like-minded photographers. Like most social internet sites (ie. Instagram), that means making "friends" of others on the site, either because you have met them or just like their work. So in my case, that means posting to like-minded groups (ie. Nikon shooters, local groups, etc) and sharing info with local photographers who also post on the site (for example, locations of a particular sighting) since like Instagram, one can message other followers. Unlike Instagram, I like that it posts both a higher quality of photo as well as the EXIF data and the ability to group photos into albums. Can't believe it is about 18 years since I joined and now have over 4,000 photos and videos posted. So in my case, it provides a group of like-minded photographers a community where we can share photos from trips we have taken as well as local wildlife that we have seen.
 
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JPaul_Johnson said:
I've really enjoyed perusing your flicker sites. Got a couple shots that could be of interest at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpaul_johnson/

It looks like most of you are having a lot more fun than I am. Nice.
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One of the dangers of these social photo sights is the "photo envy" that can lead, in some cases, to dangerous stunts to get more views and likes! People falling off cliffs, etc. Alternatively, one can live vicariously through the travels of others, which I am doing more and more of as I get older.
 
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Some really lovely collection of memories.

It was interesting, and lovely to see how people see things differently even of the same subject at times.

The one thing that stands out after browsing through a variety of these Fickr albums is the different journeys, the experience, the adventure of making many of these memories people had.
I became immersed in what i was looking at and not what gear was involved.

Its clear that the composition and subject matter over rules that sometimes obsessive technical perfection, i mean album browsing takes me away from the gear used and to what really matters.

Sharing memories made is so much easier now compared to a film photo in an album people hardly saw.

I guess its a bit different sharing videos that no doubt will be the future growth platform.

All together be it close friends and family or the public, its nice to share memories of special moments.

Everyone in the world must have a camera as there is nearly 18 billion devices out there and nearly 9 billion in phones alone, what do we all do with the photos or information there in or on and that excludes the DSLRS or Mirror less cameras of the world.

I have noticed some of my friends have their own web site like Square Space..........with secure exclusive access to immediate friends and family with log in requirements.

Only an opinion
 
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Archibald said:
I have had a Flickr account for many years but seldom use it. Months, even years go by without activity. I'm not sure how to build traffic or if that is even possible or a goal. In short, I don't know what Flickr is for.

At one time, way back when it was free, I thought it might be a good place to set up albums for different types of photos - family, glamour, birds, artsy stuff, and so on. I had a few thousand photos uploaded. Then they introduced the pay version. I had to reduce the collection. I wouldn't mind paying if there was some use to it, but I don't think anybody ever visited my Flickr account and I couldn't identify a use.

I still have my account, but it is untended and a mess, so I won't give the link here for now.

I have two IG accounts and both accounts in the last couple of months got warnings about my use of the site. They seem to be very nervous over there! :( I wasn't doing anything wrong, and they never carried out the threats. (Just today IG auto-locked me out and then auto-released the lock two and a half hours later all with little explanation and unbeknownst to me except I read IG's emails later.) So it makes me think of getting a better place, and maybe it should be Flickr.
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Instagram decided I was spamming and locked me out of my account. I did all the appeal stuff and sought an explanation for what it was I was doing that constituted spamming. Of course it was all automated. My appeal was rejected 90 seconds or so after I made it so it was automated as well. I’m also a bit suspicious they are using our images for training their AI. It was annoying but when I read that they are likely moving to a vertical image format I realized it was going to only get worse for photography. https://petapixel.com/2024/08/20/in...-scrapping-square-profile-grids-for-vertical/
 
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It's unfortunate about the plans to go portrait in IG. Photo shape and orientation seems to be a matter of fashion. Many years ago the standard was 8x10 and mostly horizontal. Then wide screens became the rage and everything went wide, even the GPS for my car. But then everybody got smartphones. Users don't realize they can turn the things to take photos and videos. So now the standard is vertical, the very antithesis of the previous trend. We get media with tons of empty sky and ground and a truncated horizon line. Nothing we can do about it.
 
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Someone referred above to the issue of how to "build traffic" within Flickr. Answer: "favorite" and (especially) comment positively on others' photos. The world is political, people: it's you scratch my back and I will scratch yours. People (not everyone, but a lot of them) will notice your favorable comments and feel an obligation, conscious or not, to go to your page and make positive comments on a few of your photos. I see this just about every time I go onto Flickr. My own routine is to look at a smattering of the new photos that are posted from people I "follow," and then "favorite" the ones I particularly like. If I really like a photo for a particular reason, I comment. I notice that by the next time I return to Flickr, some of the people whose photos I have made favorites have made favorites of a few of my own. Human nature.

That said, I try very hard to resist getting sucked into feeling any sort of need for Flickr-based validation. I suspect that some people spend a LOT of time on Flickr going over others' photos and making comments. This may or may not be out of a desire for reciprocal treatment, but I have decided that there is only so much time I will spend reviewing others' photos, period.

I recall a few years ago a young Brazilian woman dived into Flickr, aggressively commenting on/praising just about everyone's bird photos and asking them to follow her. She quickly built up a huge following and received an amazing number of comments on her own photos, which were certainly good but not that good. And then, within a few months, she was gone from Flickr, on to bigger and in her estimation (I guess) better venues. Her story was a paradigmatic case of how through concerted effort one can quickly build up a following/traffic, if that is one's goal.

I post to Flickr partly as an easily organized venue for saving my memories of particular trips, and also to have a repository of photos for people to check out my opus when they ask, "Do you post your photos anywhere?" I used to post a lot of photos to Facebook, but I have grown to hate Facebook (for reasons that I will do everyone a favor of not explaining). Now it's just Flickr.

Doug Greenberg
 
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Archibald said:
@GrandNagus50 , yes, and someone else already mentioned favoriting others' photos to generate traffic and build a following.

My question is, why do this?
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I think it depends upon one's goals. Some people want/desire others to view their work. Some people aren't as interested in that. Generally social media has created a quid pro quo expectation. If I follow you, you follow me. If I like your stuff you'll like my stuff. I'm in the middle ground. I generally follow people who have work I like or appreciate and will like/favorite images I run across that I like. I don't worry too much about people following me or fav/liking my stuff but I do like it when it happens :)
 
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Dinusaur said:
I may be wrong, but I believe that it is one way to get your photo 'Explored' - a list of photos that are selected by Flickr to be showcased each day.
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Their algorithm for selections is kind of a mystery. I think that is a contributing factor but I think there are other things going on like an automatic process and maybe some Flickr staff intervention.
 
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Its amazing just how many photographs are of birds WOW...................and i understand its a wild life forum.

I have always believed a bird would eat you like they would an insect if size wasn't a disadvantage to them LOL
 
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