MyFlickrYear is an annual feature by Flickr where users can reflect on and showcase their photography highlights from the year. It's a great opportunity for photographers to curate their best work, engage with the Flickr community, and potentially gain more exposure. Flickr is a vibrant online community and platform dedicated to photography enthusiasts, professionals, and casual users alike. It serves as both a portfolio and a social hub, allowing photographers to showcase their work, connect with like-minded creatives, and explore a world of visual inspiration. With tools for organizing, tagging, and sharing photos, Flickr is perfect for building your photographic presence, whether you're capturing the beauty of nature, candid street scenes, or artistic portraits. It's a go-to space for discovering stunning images, participating in global photo challenges, and engaging with a supportive, passionate community of photographers. Let’s have a look at #MyFlickrYear24 stats and most faved photo of 2024:
#MyFlickrYear24 statistics are as follows: my Flickr photo stream received 754, 562 views, far more than received on the rest of my social media combined! I uploaded 422 photos, 20 of which made it on to Explore, my 2024 uploaded photos received 49, 537 favourites, and 1,908 comments. My most faved photo upload of 2024 was First Light, Poombarai, which I took in Tamil Nadu on my six month travel around India.
I have been using Flickr for around fifteen years now and have always preferred it to other platforms including Instagram and Facebook. The main advantage personally is the fact that Flickr stores the large file size of each image, very useful for travellers in sudden need of their images or those of us with poor organisational skills and multiple hard drives! Flickr images are indexed very well on search engines such as Google, I have had far more photo sales and enquiries via my Flickr account than through any other social media. Flickr is more about photography as opposed to what people are doing, wearing or have eaten for lunch. Flickr is beneficial for photographers because it offers a platform to showcase high-quality, full-resolution images and connect with a community of like-minded enthusiasts. It also allows you to organise photos into albums, adding detailed metadata, and provides options for licensing and tracking image performance, making it an ideal tool for both professionals and hobbyists alike. Here is a previous blog I wrote about photography and Flickr back in 2018, how time flies…. I have met photographers through Flickr in several countries and have even bought a funky Anamorphic lens via a Flickr contact in Japan. Another advantage of using Flickr are the useful stats is provides the photographer with. These statistics are broken down into daily and all time stats, which tags are used to find your photos and much more. Click through the following slide show to view a selection of my Flickr images that have the most all time views:
I wouldn’t put any of my images with the highest views on Flickr as my best ones, but the majority have been on there a long time, are all indexed well ons each engines and many appeared on Explore which always boosts the views. Let me know your Flickr experiences and follow my Flickr account here: www.flickr.com/photos/geezaweezer.
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