Like so many other photography addicts on the web, I am also an active user of Yahoo’s popular image service on the web, Flickr. Rather than just presenting my images in the solitude of my own web site(s), on Flickr I can share my work with like-minded people – and the best thing is that they are already there for the same thing, it’s as easy for them to find my images as it’s for me to find theirs.
To promote individual pictures and increase the likeliness that visitors take notice of individual pictures, Flickr introduced the concept of interestingness. Interestingness on Flickr is basically for images what Google’s Pagerank is for web sites. The crowning of a picture on Flickr is making it to Explore or be even featured in a Flickr blog post.
Since not every image can make it into Explore and there are so many good photographers around on Flickr, I decided to feature some each week and introduce them here. I’ve seen the concept on other web sites and I liked it. For example, The Guardian maintains a camera club section on their web site, introducing portfolios of selected Flickr members. Opposed to “sending” a portfolio to the Guardian’s editors at Camera Club, I want to share some of the Flickr contacts I discovered for myself – each for specific reasons.
This week’s contact is Adde Adesokan, also known as theblackstar on Flickr.