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

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

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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