Flickr Fanatic

So I'm not sure how many of you have ever heard of Flickr? If you have, you probably know it as a photo hosting site. Well, it is so much more. It is a community of photographers that post their images, comment on each others, participate in themed groups, and post discussions on a variety of photography topics. It's the most encouraging group of people that are genuinely interested in helping one another and improving their own craft. I'm a complete addict! I can spend hours participating in discussions, looking at others' pictures, and commenting on them. I sometimes have to kick myself off the computer because my eyes are about to pop out of my head. I've recently been getting a lot of hits, comments, and people "favoriting" my images. One day I even had 476 views in my photostream. Crazy.

Well, they have this daily thing called EXPLORE. The top 500 photos of the world are chosen and featured on their Explore page. I've always wondered how all the amazing photographers get featured on there. Just for the heck of it I decided to do a search to see if I've ever made explore, and low and behold...I HAVE! I was shocked. Here's the image that made the EXPLORE page. It was #267 of 500 on January 18th, 2008. This made me very happy.

 

Here's the original picture...