[Leica] 1/4 million views (so what?)

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

This morning my flickr stats showed that I'd reached one-quarter million 
views of my photos.  Not too bad for a middle-aged guy who lives in an 
ordinary American suburb and doesn't attempt to create an Internet cult 
of personality.  Now, I don't really put that much credence in "number 
of clicks" as an indication of a photo's artistic merits. I basically 
just take pictures that interest me. I'm not trying to make myself 
famous for more than 15 minutes.

Anyway, just for fun, here's what got the most views:

1. Cute dogs doing cute things
2. Not-very-good snapshots of Hispanic children at an outdoor birthday 
party with a pi?ata (these may be a fluke--I think these attracted the 
attention of a large extended family, church group or similar)
3. Attractive women, especially outdoors
4. Pictures taken in Israel, especially Jerusalem.
5. Young couples interacting, preferably affectionately
6. Veiled Muslim women
7. The occasional really beautiful scenic, preferably at the golden hour 
or sunset. It helps if it's an exotic location or has some really magic 
lighting.

I also sorted my pictures by flickr's "interestingness" measure, which 
is the number of times people marked a picture as a "favorite," and/or 
commented. A similar pattern to the above emerges. But now a group of 
black-and-white "decisive moment" people pictures and humorous, quirky 
juxtapositions are counted among the most popular. These are among my 
favorite subjects.  Of course, I belong to several groups that emphasize 
these kinds of pictures, so it's a self-selecting population.

I'm not sure what any of this really tells me, but it's interesting.  
Any thoughts?

--Peter