I’ve had my Flickr account going on almost three years now. Admittedly, it’s not something I’ve used a whole lot in the past - but recently, with my latest photo surge, I’ve really become involved in the culture and community surrounding Flickr.

This is mostly attributed to what you could call “being discovered” a few weeks ago. Random people started commenting on my images and marking them as favorites. The feedback was encouraging and only magnified my urge to get out and shoot combined with my new found enjoyment for cycling photography. I’ve also started doing my part and letting other photographers on Flickr know what I think about their images through marking my favorites and commenting on their technique and composition.

I woke up this morning to find two of my images included in the Flickr Explore pool. This is monitored by a super secret algorithm that measures the “interestingness” of an image through the swarm of Flickr users interested in a particular image; loosely based on such aspects as comment count, user favorites, views and overall frequency. Included in the Explore pool are the top 1,000 Flickr images that have been deemed interesting by Flickr’s secret sauce. One of my cycling images is currently number 69 and one of my tulip images is number 105.

You can see my photography on my Flickr page as well as what images I like by visiting my favorites list. It is my favorites list which I draw from for my weekly Flickr Pick, that of which, I know I have been slacking on lately. I promise I’ll get back to more frequent updates…