Since joining Flickr in 2006, I have uploaded 25,417 photographs and images. I've used the website as a cloud backup, a journal of 'good fermentables,' and, more recently, as a photography portfolio. Since 2009, I have culled through those images every week and selected one as Pic(k) of the Week: fifty-two, of course, for each year.
Here's a retrospective of the images I selected for 2024. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the full-sized image.
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DATA
Of my fifty-two selections in 2024:
- 18 images (35 %) were landscapes: intimate, grand, or tangentially (including trees and woodlands)
vs. 21 (40 %) in 2023.
- 16 (31 %) were of flowers, blossoms, plants, or fungi
vs. 15 (28 %) in 2023.
- 4 (7 %) were of birds or other animals
vs. 9 (17 %) in 2023.
- 7 (13 %) were neotopographical: structures, objects, vehicles, or signs (excluding breweries, wineries, distilleries).
vs. 7 (13 %) in 2023.
- 8 (15 %) were street-photography or human portraits, primarily or tangentially. (This and neotopographical can intersect).
vs. 7 (13 %) in 2023.
- 4 (7 %) were images of the sky or astronomy-related.
vs. 5 (9 %) in 2023.
- 3 (6 %) were fermentable or comestible related.
vs. 6 (11 %) in 2023.
- 4 (7 %) were of art, music, or culture in one form or another.
vs. 2 (3 %) in 2023.
- 1 image (2 %) was processed as black-and-white.
vs. 0 in 2023.
(The percentage total is greater than 100 %, as categories overlap and percentages were rounded up.)
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PREVIOUS RETROSPECTIVES
I began the
Pic(k) of the Week feature in 2009; I began collating image retrospectives in 2014.
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CHANGE OF EMPHASIS & CONCLUSION
I began my
Yours For Good Fermentables blog in 2002, as a vehicle for examining beer (and other fermentables). Since 2020 or so, it and my photos have moved on to explorations of intimate landscapes, nature, and 'new topographics.' A beer may sneak in now and again, but I now refer to the blog simply as
YFGF (even though I have yet to change the masthead.)
As to so-called 'social media,' I last posted to
Facebook on 16 May 2022, and to
Twitter (aka '
X') on 17 December 2023. On the other hand, I
have maintained my
Instagram account (
@tcizauskas) and I have added
Threads (
@tcizauskas) and, most recently,
Bluesky (
@tcizauskas.bsky.social)...after a short, now ended, dabble on
Vero. Whether I continue to do so, I have yet to decide.
To conclude, I thank of all of you who continue to patronize my blog and I wish you health, safety, and fulfillment in 2025. Sveiks!
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