Explore is something I knew about, but hadn't really bothered with before. Then someone told me that a photo I uploaded yesterday made it to the Explore page:
It's hardly National Geographic, but suddenly I'm all narcissistic and chuffed
Every day, the Flickr elves choose 500 of the most "interesting" recent images determined by a whole bunch of factors that nobody seems to really know or understand. Chances are, much of the process is entirely automated, but it's clearly not just number of views for each image that puts you on this page. There is much speculation in the groups about how you go about making the
Explore list, but the consensus of opinion has it that the chosen images need to be commented on, discussed and favorited in multiple 'real' groups by people who are themselves regular contributors. I should imagine that a real human reviews and selects the final cut, but there must be a fair amount of arbitrary number crunching to start with.
Anyway, I was unaccountably chuffed with making the list today with
a street portrait I shot yesterday morning. It got me thinking that I might have been explored before and never actually noticed it.
Turns out I was right Anyway - I thought you might want to run yourself through one of the search pages - I note that our very own
DocSquid got an Explore back in May of this year. How many other YACF shooters got Explored, I wonder?