100,000 views later

A little over 4 years ago, I was sitting in the sunny grass reading Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father.  I thought the simple image of a good book in grass tells a story that I wanted to capture and share. I put it on Flickr.  Just today, I've hit 100,000 views (not including me) on Flickr.



Not a big deal, but still makes me stop and go WOW. Don't get me wrong, I understand my photophiliac mom makes up the bulk of that - then other friends and family - then random blog readers - then random people through Flickr and search engines- then people who find the images as they are reused, etc.  But there is something interesting in the sheer number of views.

The book in the grass story has held up well, being my 7th most viewed image with 201 views.

6th - Vaillancourt Fountain - it was on some message board about things that are ugly but still loved


5th - Yes, Birkenstocks - Mary in snow in her Berks


4th - lukens_lake_tickle -


3rd - endless nevada road


2nd - The Letter N (on a bench)


1st - knots rope swing tiburon (829 views) - I think this one ended up on a book cover in Italy or something... This one gets pinged every couple of days or so from Google or Yahoo!


This is cognitive surplus at work.  I've seen the Sam and Tori whisper picture in at least three blog posts from people I don't know discussing new communications.  Whispers and sharing are nice ways to communicate; I'm glad we're doing it more.