While finishing up my photographic bio, I was copying and adapting my introduction from my flickr Top 40 book.  So I decided to see how the top ten photos in my flickr Top 40 have changed in the past three years.

2006

Original Rank: 1 Current Rank: 5 Original Views:  455 Current Views:  1881 Camera: Kodak DX3600

My most used tag on flickr - portrait.

And my most interesting photos continue to shuffle around!  Here’s the latest top 10.  You’ll see that this photo, which had become my 2nd most interesting photo at one time, is now off the top 10.

I wanted to see how I’ve changed as a photographer so I went to my first ten photos uploaded to flickr.  The two biggest changes are that I am now really into portrait photography (although mostly natural portraits) and not quite as much into photoshop.  My first two pages are mostly photoshop-manipulated photos.  The next ten or so pages are photos documenting my life.  I got to do some exciting stuff like going to NYC for the second time (but with a lot more time to look around) and also was busy documenting my life as a college student.  I’m still into documenting my life and activities I participate in, but I’ve become more sophisticated in my techniques.  I now know about shutter speed, aperture, and ISO and I strive to use them to get the best photos I can.  I came to appreciate light and how it can work for and against the composition.  I also learned when to use flash and when it’s useless.  Before I thought no one would want to see an unaltered photo, hence the focus on the photoshopped photos.  Then I looked through photography books and learned about street photography and documentary photography.  I’ve grown quite a bit from the old days and here’s the proof.

Just four days ago, this photo was my 11th most interesting photo. Now it’s my second most interesting photo! Wow!  I wonder what factors contributed to this?  Surely the fact that it has risen quickly to already have 200+ views?

Compared to last time, there are some new entries into the list.

Unfortunately, the flickr map page for my account only shows the last 30 or so photos on the map. So it’s pretty rare to get it zoomed out this far to show your GPS shots. I keep wishing they’d show all the GPS tagged photos (using some algorithm to combine them into one dot if you’re zoomed out far enough) so you can get an idea of where around the world the users have been. So after uploading a few Hawaii photos, it looked like this:

I recently posted the photos I took during Dina’s Graduation Party. I then posted the link to Dina’s wall on Facebook.  Check out the spike in my views:

That’s 1037 views in one day!  Thanks guys!