Anomoly

It's been a while since I blogged specifically about Flickr, but I just had a look at my stats and, well, there's something going on. My daily hits average at somewhere around 100 per day. Not very impressive, but it keeps me happy, especially as I've long since given up actively chasing views and comments. The past two days, however, have seen a massive surge in views of my stream, and more odderer than that, my sets. Actual individual views of my photos are still relatively low. Given that flickr only give you the provenence of clicks on actual photographs, I'd be intrigued to see where all this traffic is coming from...

Collaboration

I'm currently working with a Flickr contact, Pierre, on a shared blog. We're not really sure what it's going to be yet, but it's nice to have someone to work off. He's in France, and I'm here in the UK, so it's the perfect balance of independence and collaboration.

The link is here:
Contact Sheep

UPDATE: We've just added another friend of ours, Jiro to join the blog, so we should be seeing some great work.

Interview on CFYE.com

Wow, long time no post!

Not a lot has happened, until the last few days. I am now InternetFamous: inspired by finding my Army set on flickr, Kaymir from CFYE.com made it the "expo of the week" on Shutter Crack, which was really nice of him. They also asked me to do an interview with them, which was really fun and cool, and can be read here. Please read it, it makes me think I'm cool, and he says some nice things about me.

And the dark

After the levity of the previous post, here's some more usual fare...

Favourite

I rocketed past 10,000 all time views on flickr today, which is only really important to me, but there you go. I've become somewhat obsessed. Anyway, here is one of my most favourite shots that I've taken. Ever. It was only this afternoon, on the way to the pub, but I think it will stay with me for years...

Nostalgia for Places You've Never Been To

Bored at work, I was browsing through my favourites on flickr. I have to say that I was blown away; the quality of photography that will basically never see the inside of a gallery is staggering. Even better is watching them as a slideshow, which I hope you will do by clicking here.

I also seriously SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY recommend that you download the track 'Primary' from Minotaur Shock's album 'Chiff Chaffs and Willow Warblers' and listen to it over and over again while looking at the pictures. The whole album is worth having, but if you only listen to one track this year while looking at someone else's idea of what great photography is, then it should be that one. Its only 80p or whatever from i-Tunes, and it will inject into the experience a goodly amount of nostalgia for places you've never been to.

WARNING: There are a couple of rude ones in there - nothing pornographic, but if you don't like bums then steer clear.

WARNING NUMERO DEUX: The whole thing will take about 50 minutes, so go to the toilet first.

UPDATE: I can't stop favouriting people at the moment, so it's well over an hour now. Better than most films though...

UPDATE 2: Well, in a way this proves my point - there are so many great pictures in there now that the slideshow will take about 90 minutes. That's a whole bunch of good shit...

UPDATE 3: Well, it's December now, 9 months later, and there are 4,257 pictures in my favourites, which will take about 3 hours to get through. I defy anyone to listen to same track on repeat for 3 hours, so maybe buy the whole Minotaur Shock album!