22 Mar 2015, 8:36 pm
#212
(22 Mar 2015, 8:21 pm)aureolin I quite enjoy looking at your photos, Jimmi. I wouldn't be following you otherwise. 
A lot of people get loads of faves/comments, simply because they're following hundreds or thousands of people, who in turn follow back.
Not entirely sure of the criteria to get on Explore, but I think I managed it once with a photo of 5347. Complete randomness, but ended up with 18k views and 86 faves from randoms.
Just keep doing what you do. Get yourself out there and try different places for photos. If you're stuck for ideas, then I'm sure other members of NEB will come up with some suggestions for you? A few of us in the past have spoken of using Google Maps to find places on routes for shots, and www.suncalc.net (that Dan suggested once) also comes in handy for working out the best time to be somewhere.
The other alternative is to catch up with others from NEB when you're out and about? I know you live a lot further south than others, so it may help you heading out with someone who knows places, in say Tyneside for example, a lot better than you maybe do?
Thanks!
I do try my hardest to get people to view and I have 102 followers and I am following 103 so that is pretty good really especially as I only joined Flickr 6 months ago.
I am very shy and struggle to go up to people, especially if I can't put a name to the face.
Was actually looking at how photos end up on Explore and it appears that it is basically a lottery where 500 photos end up on there, apparently it has something do to do with views, comments and favourites a photo gets - so if this is the case I don't think there will be much chance I will ever get on there as I don't get many comments.
Normally I am not bothered about this sort of thing but it does happen sometimes and most days I probably wouldn't care less about Explore. Would love just one photo to pop up on there someday though.
