Big Yellow Blog

Curiously, this is my most popular picture on Flickr. Now, that's not actually saying very much at all - "popular" overstates somewhat the attention my images receive. But to the extent that anyone bothers to look at them at all, this is the picture that has had most views. And I don't know why - it hasn't been posted anywhere else that I know of, not even on my wife's blog and a Flickr search is unlikely to find it either.

I think there are other pictures of the house that are more interesting (there's a set full of them), and there are other non-housey pictures that I persuade myself are worth a couple of seconds of viewing time. But this one mysteriously got (admittedly low-level) attention even before being posted in a Flickr group, and has three times the views of the next house picture.

Maybe the blurb is interesting enough to warrant reading. This at least is a testable hypothesis - I have an occasional project to attach historical notes to other images, and if they become relatively popular (say double digit view counts) then an alternate career as a caption writer beckons.

# posted by Steve @ Wednesday, June 07, 2006