My Flickr Year 2020
I love Flickr, and post there nearly daily. Do you?
When I first started my little journey into photography back in 2009, the very few folks that I met all mentioned Flickr to me as a great place to share their work. They made it sound like a great site, a community if you will, where you can meet other photographers, get inspired, learn, share your work, maybe get noticed a little bit, possibly license some photos, and simply just enjoy the craft of photography. That all sounded great, so I joined up and started sharing what few photos I had to share (which were nothing to brag about, believe me).
Fast forward all these years later, and I am still at it, sharing my work on Flickr nearly every day, and at this point have amassed a collection of nearly 8000 edited photos that are displayed there. The site has gone through a lot of changes over the years (including a change in ownership, which was a blessing for sure) but it still remains the best place to share your photos on the web. Period. You can’t convince me otherwise, so don’t try. :-)
I have flirted with other sites over the years, with 500px rising quickly and grabbing all the attention for a while, but it died off (and I left it after deciding it wasn’t for me). I closed my account and have never once regretted that decision.
I have an Instagram account but I can barely motivate myself to open it, much less post something there. It has been overrun with ads and I generally just get annoyed when I look at it. So that’s not for me.
And I am sure there are countless other places, some niche sites and some big ones, where photo-sharing takes center stage - but for me, I could care less about all of those. Flickr is my home, and Flickr is where I plan to stay.
You can find me here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimnix/
I wrote all of this simply because Flickr sent out an email this week which was a summary of my Flickr year, and I thought it was a nice touch. And it’s kind of interesting to see these sort of statistics. I’m not one to obsess over follower counts, likes, faves and that sort of thing, but getting a high-level summary is interesting, so I am sharing it here if you would like to take a look.
