Ten Thousand Views!

Inuyasha Cosplay by DJOtaku, on Flickr
This photos is my most viewed photo on flickr and today it reached 10,000 views! The pace of views has been insanely quick. (for one of my photos) It only had 5,000 views 18 months ago and ever since then I’ve been wondering when it would reach 10,000 views. Now the next milestone on the flickr views groups is 25,000 views. It’ll probably take a while to get there. I know there are some who get 25,000 views in one day, but I’m not one of those, so this is pretty exciting for me. 10,000 pairs of eyeballs have seen this photo and that’s awesome.
Picture of the Day (Part 1)
It’s been a really long time since I did this. Here are some of the non-Project 365 related photos since then.
Halloween in The Village

The Whole Gang by DJOtaku, on Flickr
Last year after Dina and Brian went to The Village for Halloween, I did some research on this tradition and decided we would go whenever things worked out. Well, this year was that year so we decided to spend Halloween night in Greenwich Village in NYC’s Manhattan. But, first, we rewind once again to last year. Danielle’s mother made an awesome Chun-Li costume for Dina that rivals anything you can find in a US costume store. Brian was Ryu and both got lots of accolades for their costumes. Fast forward to this summer. We decided to also have Danielle’s mom make our costumes this year.
365 Project Update
Due to missing some photos on the weekend or extremely busy weeks, I’ve now completed 155 days as of the time this is being written. Here are some of my favorite photos since my last update in August. To see the entire project, visit my 365 Set on flickr.
Yet Another Strange Bit of Web Behavior
This photo has suddenly become my daily most viewed photo for the past 10 days or so.

Pope John Mole IV by DJOtaku, on Flickr
Yesterday it had 32 views. It had 30 a couple of days before that. As of 2100 on 21 Oct, it has 22 views. [Almost] All of the views have been coming from Google and Yahoo image searches. I wish flickr told me what search terms were leading to this little guy. I’d try a few really quick. “Pope John Paul” (no quotes) does not bring it up on the first page. “Pope John Mole” and “Pope Mole” (again, both without quotes) do bring it up as the first search result. But why would someone be searching with those terms? It just doesn’t make any sense. The image already has 1814 views for all time.
Apparently I mostly shoot wide
Heard about Jeffrey Friedl’s lens focal length plot plugin for Lightroom and decided to check it out. Here’s what it produced from my entire library.

Apparently I mostly shoot wide
Nearly 60% of my photos are in the wide to short telephoto range and nearly 40% is exclusively wide. Now, I do have SOME photos from others in my Lightroom catalog, but not enough to skew the results. I would say the reason for the huge concentration of photos in the 33-82mm range comes from the kit lens and its equivalent focal length USM version that I shoot a lot of photos with. The large concentration around the 308-330mm range comes from the 1.6x crop factor of my XT and XTi on the Tamron 55-200mm I use for wildlife photography.

























