What my top-five most viewed photos tell me is that I should have been a model in my early thirties rather than a wannabe photographer.
I have been using Flickr since 2005.
Well, I have not used it for several years now, and I think I just understood why:
The most viewed photos are almost entirely pictures I posted that picture me. They are part of the story I told about me on this platform, but they are not photos I took. (Although I did a series of self portraits in a dusty mirror which are of me, by me.)
But I don’t use the platform to show myself (that’s what Instagram is about, right? And I left that one already), as much as to showcase my photography at the same time as I photo-document bits of my life.
The only photo where I am not, among the top five, is a byproduct of its title being the same as swingers club (a coincidence, which I blogged about in 2006 when I figured out why it was my most popular photo.)
I think I will find out how much longer the pro membership I paid is, and find an exit strategy for all of my photos on this platform. There is appetite for how I was about 10 years ago more than there is appetite for the stuff I want to show, much to my dismay.
So sad, what’s been happening to Flickr for the past few years… The last announcement looks like the nail in the coffin.
I will lose a lot of descriptions, comments, notes and metadata just because I don’t have the time nor the patience to export, transform and store everything somewhere else :/ So much personal history, to the trash.
There just isn’t a good alternative out there, is there?
I’m not aware that there is an alternative, but I haven’t really looked for one.