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

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

That ain't bad for flowers and cats Sonny ;-)
I just added up on On #1 250K in last 2 weeks.
Now where is that cents per view business model we all want! ;-)

To be more serious I deliberately don't want to do gritty, urban, bleak,
photojournalist social comment stuff ever. It's nice if my photos bring
some enjoyment (sometimes brickbats or ignoring!) to a wide audience and
lots of colour too.
As an aside I have had some drinks and chats with Nick Ut recently and
hearing the full story of his most iconic image is very harrowing. It makes
me grateful to have never been shot at and to live where the worst I need
to think on is how many clicks on my happy images of pretty people ;-)


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 2 July 2014 11:27, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get about 200k views a year with flowers and kittens, so I guess number
> 9 is valid.  Penny a view would be nice for thirteen years!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jul 1, 2014, at 6:34 PM, 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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