Winter afternoon sun dappled the wetlands of Burnt Fork Creek.
Photographed from a boardwalk along the South Peachtree Creek Trail: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 20 January 2025.
Flickr is a website for uploaded images. Since 2006, I have been posting most of photographs there (@Cizauskas).
Each day during the year,
During 2024, Flickr selected seventeen of my images for Explore.
***************— Big Huge Labs.Explore is a Flickr feature with the intent of showing you 'some of the most awesome photos on Flickr.' Photos are automatically selected by computer according to a secret algorithm called Interestingness. The top 500 photos ranked by Interestingness are shown in Explore.
Flickr has stated that many factors go into calculating Interestingness: a photo's tags, how many groups the photo is in, views, favorites, where click-throughs are coming from, who comments on a photo and when, and more. The velocity of any of those components is a key factor. For example, getting 20 comments in an hour counts much higher than getting 20 comments in a week.
Is Explore a showcase for the top Flickr photographers? No. It's for photo viewers, not the photographers. It exists so that, at any moment, anyone who wants to view interesting photos can go to Explore and have a reasonable chance of seeing something interesting.
Does that imply that photographs not in Explore are uninteresting? Of course not. Many wonderful photos are uploaded to Flickr each day not selected for Explore. But, to serve its purpose, Explore only includes a small sampling of all of the photos on Flickr, showing photos from many different people to create a diverse selection.
Here: pines trees under a winter morning sun (with a bit of snow to boot), on the Hawthorne Nature Trail, in Northlake, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 12 January 2025.
Seminary Wood in Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 22 December 2024.
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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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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