2022 Pic(k) of the Week Rotogravure

Pic(k) of the Week

Since 2006, I have uploaded 24,601 photographs and images to the website Flickr. Every Saturday since 29 August 2009, I have culled through those images and selected one as my Pic(k) of the Week.

Here's a retrospective collage of the fifty-two images I selected for 2022. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the full image.

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2022

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

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Metrics

☞ Of my fifty-two selections in 2022:

• Only 7 (or 14%) were fermentably related.
• Thus, 45 images (or 86%) were NOT of a fermentable or comestible, or brewery/winery/distillery, or related subject.
• 29 images (56%) were of 'nature.'
• 10 (19%) were of structures, objects, vehicles, or signs (not including breweries).
• 10 (19%) were focused on people, primarily or tangentially.
• 7 (13%) were of art or culture in one form or another.
• 6 images (11%) were in black-and-white (but none were beer-related).

☞ That compares to 2014, when:

• 45 (or 86%) were fermentably related.
• Thus, only 7 images (or 14%) were NOT of a fermentable or comestible, or related subject.
• 6 images (11%) were of 'nature.'
• 2 (4%) were of structures, objects, vehicles, or signs (not including breweries).
• 28 (43%) were focused on people, primarily or tangentially.
• 1 (2%) was of art/culture in one form or another.
• 1 image (2%) was in black-and-white (but not beer-related).

(The figures don't reflect a sum, as a category may be a subset of another.)

☞ Examining the images of the previous nine years, 2014-2022, here's more of how my selections have changed. The trend is undeniable. My 'general photography has grown at the expense of beer-related photography.

	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Beer	2	n/a	12	10	12	28	34	34	26
Brewery/Pub	3	n/a	8	12	5	8	16	20	34
Cask ale	0	n/a	1	1	2	5	0	10	8
Wine/Winery	1	n/a	0	1	0	1	0	3	4
Whiskey/Liquor/Distillery	2	n/a	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
Food/Restaurant	0	n/a	1	2	3	4	8	5	5

(As above, the figures don't reflect a sum, as a category may be a subset of another: such as breweries also appearing under beer, food also under brewpub/brewery, etc.)

☞ Here are links to the image retrospectives for the years 2014 through 2020. (I did not do one for 2021.)

• 2021 retrospective (n/a)
• 2020 retrospective
• 2019 retrospective
• 2018 retrospective
• 2017 retrospective
• 2016 retropective
• 2015 retrospective
• 2014 retrospective

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The cycle begins anew.

There were 53 Saturdays in 2022. So, the first Pic(k) of the Week for 2023 was posted on 31 December 2022. See it at Flickr: here.

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• The top photo is of Twain's Brewpub & Billiards, a brewpub in downtown Decatur, Georgia, USA. It was festooned for the Christmas holidays.


• As to this post's caption, from Wikipedia:
  ☞ "Rotogravure is a type of printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier. Once a staple of newspaper photo features, the rotogravure process is still used for commercial printing of magazines, postcards, and corrugated (cardboard) and other product packaging."
  
  ☞ Here, I've used the word as metonymy, à la Irving Berlin in his song Easter Parade:
  "On the avenue, Fifth Avenue,
  The photographers will snap us
  And you'll find that you're
  In the rotogravure."


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