[Leica] 1/4 million views (so what?)

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Thank you, Richard and Geoff.  Yes, Geoff, I'd say #3 works very well 
for you!  :-)  And yeah, I'd love to have 1 cent per view.

I was brainstorming ways to increase my viewership:

1. Take many more pictures of attractive women, with less clothing.
2. *Become* an attractive woman with less clothing.
3. Move to a gritty urban neighborhood. Take hopeless, depressing 
pictures of it and its inhabitants.
4. Move to an impoverished and/or war torn-country. Take hopeless, 
depressing pictures of it and its inhabitants.
5. Move as in #3 or #4. Take inspiring pictures of small acts of 
humanity and kindness amid the squalor.
6. Buy a Lomo. Shoot random out-of-focus pictures of nothing in 
particular. Write reams of obscurantist artsy philosophical exegesis to 
describe them.
7. Become Extremely Cool and Fabulous. Blog endlessly about my coolness 
and fabulousness. Take an occasional picture to accompany the writing.
8. Become famous. Then people would look at my pictures no matter how 
crappy they were.
9. Take more pictures of cute doggies and kitties.

Since only #9 is likely to happen, I suspect I will just continue to 
take pictures that interest me, post the better ones, and try to be 
happy with my lot.  :-)

--Peter

 > Peter it says that you need to stop analysing your stats on this and keep
 > shooting and uploading ;-)
 > #3 and #7 work for my on-line stuff too ;-) Did I mention #3???  2.57
 > million views here.
 > What we need is a business model so we get even one cent a view ;-)
 >
 >
 >
 > Cheers
 > Geoff
 > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
 >
 >
 > On 1 July 2014 05:46, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
 >
 > > This morning my flickr stats showed that I'd reached one-quarter 
million
 > > views of my photos.  Not too bad for a middle-aged guy who lives in an
 > > ordinary American suburb and doesn't attempt to create an Internet 
cult of
 > > personality.  Now, I don't really put that much credence in "number of
 > > clicks" as an indication of a photo's artistic merits. I basically just
 > > take pictures that interest me. I'm not trying to make myself 
famous for
 > > more than 15 minutes.
 > >
 > > Anyway, just for fun, here's what got the most views:
 > >
 > > 1. Cute dogs doing cute things
 > > 2. Not-very-good snapshots of Hispanic children at an outdoor birthday
 > > party with a pi?ata (these may be a fluke--I think these attracted the
 > > attention of a large extended family, church group or similar)
 > > 3. Attractive women, especially outdoors
 > > 4. Pictures taken in Israel, especially Jerusalem.
 > > 5. Young couples interacting, preferably affectionately
 > > 6. Veiled Muslim women
 > > 7. The occasional really beautiful scenic, preferably at the golden 
hour
 > > or sunset. It helps if it's an exotic location or has some really magic
 > > lighting.
 > >