I must have done something right! (My first Flickr Explore!)

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Took this as 'something different' last night, I've mainly been playing it safe since I started photography however I had a bit of a mad half hour!

Nice feeling to know people are noticing it and feels really encouraging! :clap:

Here's the shot for anyone who might want to take a peep:

Colour in the darkness by fresheyedea, on Flickr
 
I've had a couple in explore, and they were IMO some of my weakest shots. So i don't pay much attention to it.
 
Last week I saw an out of focus snapshot of a bus on explore. It seems to be based on "interestingness" whatever that is.


Not trying to take anything away from you.... it's a lovely image... just don't think being explored means anything. You can't predict what makes an image explored, nor is it a measure of how good the shot is.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Last week I saw an out of focus snapshot of a bus on explore. It seems to be based on "interestingness" whatever that is.
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As far as I can gather it's based on ratings/likes - so it could be down to either the quality of the shot or an interesting subject. I have seen some hideous ones on there.

Not this one though, it's great.
 
Number45 said:
As far as I can gather it's based on ratings/likes - so it could be down to either the quality of the shot or an interesting subject. I have seen some hideous ones on there.

Not this one though, it's great.
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It's also down to activity trends. If you usually get 2 views and no favs on any photos, then suddenly get 20 views and 2 favourites, that can be enough to put it into explore.
The less groups you use, and not using the post 1, comment 5 etc groups helps also.

I've had 13 explored this year, but not had one in a couple of months now, even though IMHO more recent shots have been some of my best. I don't know how they choose them exactly, but either way, seeing that happen is a definite ego boost.
 
Thanks a lot for the nice comments, it was like my birthday had come early haha. It made a nice change anyway, if nothing else!

13 this year is very impressive Jake! Attention hogger! Hmph! :D
 
Congrats on explore, it's a great shot.
How explore works no-one knows, the theory about adding to a map and putting tags seems to be meaningless as from the few I've had on explore the one with most views has neither, I can only assume that a lot of views in a short time helps hence the bus spotters pictures getting regular appearances on explore.
 
Martyn D said:
Congrats on explore, it's a great shot.
How explore works no-one knows, the theory about adding to a map and putting tags seems to be meaningless as from the few I've had on explore the one with most views has neither, I can only assume that a lot of views in a short time helps hence the bus spotters pictures getting regular appearances on explore.
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Have noticed a couple of strange badly-taken extremely old car photos on there aswell!

Oh well, back to the drawing board it is then! :D
 
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