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What I mean by with the Flickr comment was you can upload an 2nd appropriately sized photo for the contest to Flickr and link to that image, instead of another, bigger one, posted there.

Thanks, olavf for the props/vote! 🙂

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Query: We know from Schnee how many unique farktographers post each week. Do we have a way of knowing how many unique voters vote?

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…which is not to say you MUST link to the original flickr image. You could upload one of the appropriate size, separately. (Not that you couldn’t find it, but how many are going to go hunting around for them?)

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I agree on the points made by C, l, and K. Skipping the clickr this time sounds reasonable.

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Ain’t dissabich. Last night, I brought my camera to work, took some pics; everything was too far away. Tonight, I didn’t, and the storm is raging on my break. A 5 story garage structure to take pictures from, and I didn’t bring the damned camera. Won’t make that mistake again!!

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The Flickr issue happened to me last week (no message, but 2 pics were gone & Elsinore restored them), so perhaps it’s not Flickr?

That’s the only time it’s happened, though.

FWIW, if anyone would like to post their pics from my hosting site to avoid Flickr issues, I’d be happy to throw them in and send you the link. It’ll allow me 1.5 tera’s per month; this month (ending 08/02), I’ve used less than 1/2 of a percent and I’ve posted in all 4 contests, including bigguns links. There’s plenty of room to spare. PM me links by Tuesday and I’ll PM back links by Wednesday morning.

Just a thought. Offer valid at least through 02/02/13, my next renewal date.

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Just to give everyone a last opportunity to participate, if you have a top 10, 15 or 25 list of your favorite themes, give us a post here and tell us what they are.

I haven’t followed lately; I think this was stuff all before my time. If it’s expanded, feel free to use any images in my farkfolio.

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Kestrana Thanks for the props! And, Cause I Said So, like Kes said, P&S can do well; my 2nd best shot (maybe third depending on this week) was a P&S photo.

Pope, by far, I get most views (per my host acct stats, where pics are stored) between 6-9am Eastern time, followed by 1/2 as many 4-6pm Eastern, on Thursdays. Posting at least before the afternoon may help, but in my experience, I usually get more votes later on, Friday-Saturday, till the contest ends. Not that I ever win–but I do see the numbers grow, and I myself keep looking at the new stuff and vote till the contest closes.

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Just a note; weekly for a couple months I post on my facebook for people to come over to the contest. Results so far: 23 times have people done so (my friends list is about 160). So much for that.

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Thoughts on these latest comments:

It’s hard to gauge the graphs when x/5 theme titles get ‘squished’ out of the image due to the # of contests and the width of the graph.

Earlier contests were easier: ‘Blue’ is easier than ‘These Foolish Games’; ‘Self Portraits’ more clearly defined than ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’

I can’t help but think the late change in the theme title this week hurt; “That’s Just Filthy” is more encompassing than “Dirty Pictures”. I know in my voting, I am looking for really ‘dirty’ shots; a messy kitchen or cluttered garage or workbench isn’t ‘dirty’–it’s just a disorganized mess. Did people decide not to post images because of that? Or decide not to include one or another shot (I know I changed my entries accordingly–who out there who doesn’t read the forum religiously decided not to post, or thought they misread something earlier?) Those who did post such images–aren’t doing well, overall, and may be discouraged by that.

It probably didn’t help with the contest posting snafoo–these things happen, of course, but perhaps a few didn’t find the link…the casual contributors.

Chaos theory say’s not every contest will be as popular as another.

Puddytats, and other ‘awe, gee’ themes, are more likely to be shared and linked to among family and friends than stuff like monuments and skylines.

There’s a ga-zillion reasons why the contests might not be as popular as they were, or just may not seem so. For me, I’m here to stretch my boundaries, as a compositional photographer and as a technically adept one (or so I hope to be one day). It probably comes down to ‘what does Farktography want to achieve’ which can be summed up in ‘what group is our target audience’ and ‘how among Fark’s audience can we capture them and keep them.’

Neither question is easy to answer.

No offense to the top-contributors, but to a casual “gee, I think this is a good shot with my p+s camera” contributor, it doesn’t help that we happen to have some really most-excellent (“Station!!”) photographers, who’s shots nearly always blow away the casual competition. There’s the occasional fluke, but most people probably give up the ghost as hopeless. If I weren’t so damned stubborn and certain that I really CAN take these kinds of pictures (and I’m faring well this week, thus far), I’da given up long ago. Lord knows I’ve had moments of frustration where I’ve felt like doing so.

Just thoughts, from a 6th-months-in farktography student, who keeps hoping to improve my GPA.

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err…is voting already enabled? dat’s vierd…

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We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.

Oh nos! I saw this in Outer Limits, it never ends well…

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Did they end DST early this year? Where’sitat?

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These last-minute choosing sessions are grueling. Do I go with sheer dirt, or artisticly framed dirt? Decisions, decisions.

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The soft-focus effect is stunning. Nice pics.

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