“In Explore”

I have been a member of Flickr for several years and being included in “Explore” still has the ability to make the site exciting.  It is a fantastic feeling when you receive over 100 favs and over 10,000 views of your photograph. Flickr uses an algorithm which It terms “interestingness” of your photograph.  It works out how often you have liked (faved) or commented on other Flickr users photograph.   Then your photograph will appear in the top 100 photographs of the day.  If this happens then you will find a large number of fellow Flickr users liking your photograph.

Early morning communters walking from Moor St to New St, Birmingham

There are many 3rd party applications such as “Scout” that will track the progress of your photograph.  It is complex and your photograph fluctuates its position and then may either settle down to remain in explore or without warning it may be find itself excluded.  Whatever happens for that short period of time which may be a few days, there is a great deal of activity around the popularity of your photograph.  I could write for a long time on “explore” but it may be better to read another person’s account.  Meanwhile enjoy a few of my photographs that made “explore”.  They were selected by an algorithm that decided that they were “interesting”.

Light Painting
Portrait using a home made Snoot
Long Exposure in Gas Street Basin, Birmingham
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3 years ago

[…] that are in ExploreSome previous posts on my activity on Explore– In Explore from 2019– “In Explore” from 2017 (I have been blogging for some time!)Finally if you want to get yourself noticed on Flickr then […]

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