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

[jackyaus at gmail.com (Jacky aus)]

Dear Peter,



Congratulate on your great and big viewership and figure.



My view for photography is very personal. Ideas or feelings can be
expressed in words or poems. Similarly, what I see and feel is also simply
shown in photos that I take at the right moment, right time and right
sight....



I see what I take is part of life because this is what I go through in that
moment. If someone can appreciate and like it, even love it, it means my
life gets something in common with others.



No matter what we have, the most beautiful thing is that we share and have
common view and experience on the subject, like we are talking here LUG.



Keep enjoying and going on with your Leica feel and ways. That is why we
are here to show what we have gone through in Leica World.



I appreciate very much all those sharing their wonderful capture of moment,
view and scenery here. Some of them surely and truly moves my heart deeply.



With regards,



Jacky.

On 2 July 2014 09:34, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Richard and Geoff.  Yes, Geoff, I'd say #3 works very well for
> you!  :-)  And yeah, I'd love to have 1 cent per view.
>
> I was brainstorming ways to increase my viewership:
>
> 1. Take many more pictures of attractive women, with less clothing.
> 2. *Become* an attractive woman with less clothing.
> 3. Move to a gritty urban neighborhood. Take hopeless, depressing pictures
> of it and its inhabitants.
> 4. Move to an impoverished and/or war torn-country. Take hopeless,
> depressing pictures of it and its inhabitants.
> 5. Move as in #3 or #4. Take inspiring pictures of small acts of humanity
> and kindness amid the squalor.
> 6. Buy a Lomo. Shoot random out-of-focus pictures of nothing in
> particular. Write reams of obscurantist artsy philosophical exegesis to
> describe them.
> 7. Become Extremely Cool and Fabulous. Blog endlessly about my coolness
> and fabulousness. Take an occasional picture to accompany the writing.
> 8. Become famous. Then people would look at my pictures no matter how
> crappy they were.
> 9. Take more pictures of cute doggies and kitties.
>
> Since only #9 is likely to happen, I suspect I will just continue to take
> pictures that interest me, post the better ones, and try to be happy with
> my lot.  :-)
>
> --Peter
>
>
> > Peter it says that you need to stop analysing your stats on this and keep
> > shooting and uploading ;-)
> > #3 and #7 work for my on-line stuff too ;-) Did I mention #3???  2.57
> > million views here.
> > What we need is a business model so we get even one cent a view ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 1 July 2014 05:46, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
>
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