Amazing Year – Thanks For Joining Me!
Over 50 Million Views!
I started on SmugMug in Dec of 2009. We
I am always shocked when I look at these numbers. I’m very hard on myself when it comes to photography, and I feel like I rarely ever reach that “nirvana” point in a photo. But I do like to try — and I enjoy sharing and getting your thoughts. It helps give me energy to keep on trying!
These stats are a good indication of how much energy you are giving me! We just passed 50 million views — at least this is the official number that we can count through SmugMug and Flickr. The photos are spread far and wide beyond that, but I can’t include them in the official count.
I find it remarkable that I started hosting photos on SmugMug (see SmugMug Review) in December of 2009, and we already have about 30 million views. It’s been about five years on Flickr and we are at 22 million views. I still post my photos over there, but I just don’t link there from the blog — and so many of my friends are still on Flickr. I wish I had more time to surf around and see their work! This is just too hard for me sometimes with a busy schedule, family, and this sort of thing.
It took about five years to break 20 million on Flickr. I still enjoy Flickr and use it daily, however!
Anyway, thank you so much!
Prints on Paper, Canvas, or Metal!
Our print sales did pretty well over the holidays! Maybe I should have mentioned them beforehand… I don’t think I’ve talked about them in about two months. Anyway, we just did a printing of this work below. It was sent to a good friend for a special Christmas gift. We had it done up on High White Gloss Aluminum. They are super-expensive, frankly, but they are beyond belief…. they look like giant 40″ LCD screens! There’s something about the white base of the metal that helps everything glow.
Daily Photo – Time in London
I had many highlights of the year… one of them was certainly that amazing huge photowalk in London. I enjoyed meeting so many people… it’s amazing how many “lurkers” there are out there! You guys and gals are too shy on the Internet!
A pretty good example (and what I’ve grown to expect) is gents like Andy Bird. I find that generally interesting and awesome people just end up enjoying this sort of thing! He came up to me, wearing a Joss Whedon t-shirt, so I knew there was something of interest in the works. And then I found out it was long-time commenter Andy Bird! What a cool guy… and, I’m always impressed (and not surprised) when I end up meeting frequent (or infrequent!) members of the community. Anyway, while I was looking at this photo, I came to think of that nice photowalk in London.
Speaking of that, when I set up for this shot in particular, I spent some time talking about the composition… Big Ben, the lights, the bridge, etc etc. And then, right when I was taking the shot, another photographer got right in front of me! hehe… well, these things happen. But, it helped me decide on a nice treatment for the photo — to keep the emphasis on the shapes rather than the interloper.
