What's your most surprisingly popular photo?

[rottie102]

Let's fill this thread with "averageness"!!

The photo that is a bit st technically, that you definitely weren't proud of taking and were thinking to bin it anyway... and yet people love it?

This is one of mine, it's not even the only one of those dogs doing similar thing that people have seen, yet for some reason this one has hundreds of likes

Edited by rottie102 on Friday 4th April 12:18

Edited by rottie102 on Friday 4th April 13:02

[Simpo Two]

This was one from my 'Let's make wallart!' days. I didn't think it was that good but it seemed to be the one that attracted most comments.



It's called 'The Last Post' and was taken at Walton with flash as a weather front was going over.

[RobbieKB]

^ This, with out question. #2 on Flickr explore, Flickr had it as their main homepage image for a week and I had multiple enquiries about prints.

It's st. No one will ever convince me otherwise.

[Craikeybaby]

This has had over 17,000 views on Flickr, my next most popular one is just over 1,000.

[tim-b]

This one is rated 2nd in interestingness, favourites and views on flickr.....don't really know why tbh, I don't dislike the image but it's nothing special, in terms of composition it's pretty weak.....it's certainly not one I'd consider for my portfolio.

Somehow it got explored though....shows how random (and useless) explore is really!

[dele]

This one from Silverstone SS for some reason lol

[...Mole...]

[Yellabelly]

This got 2253 2335 views, it was only a test shot and nothing of note!


Orionids Startrail by ray_blake, on Flickr

Edited by Yellabelly on Tuesday 8th July 23:56

[damianmkv]

This has over 2600 views


minimal by damianmkv, on Flickr

[MonzaEvo]

Number 3 in my all time views........ purely and simply, because it's titled 'Girl in a Wetsuit'



Rgds
Jonathan

[rottie102]

MonzaEvo said:

Number 3 in my all time views........ purely and simply, because it's titled 'Girl in a Wetsuit'



Rgds
Jonathan

I'm renaming all my photos to "topless_swedish_twin_sisters_playing_with_puppies_and_kittens"

[jurbie]

3986 views of a crappy scan of a fairly boring picture taken 20 years ago of a bloke who left the band about a year after the picture was taken.

[ukaskew]

15,431 views, go figure. Even weirder, my FoS set from that year led to contact from Mosler and Farbio (remember them?!) with offers of a purchase and even a job offer...they are nowhere near my best motorsport photos, very strange.


Roush Ford GT 600RE by Harry_S, on Flickr

[JSS 911]

500 views of my foot

[DibblyDobbler]

damianmkv said:

This has over 2600 views


minimal by damianmkv, on Flickr

We have a winner The horizon's not even straight!

[DibblyDobbler]

Sorry - on reflection that seems a bit mean

[RobDickinson]

This has 23000 views on flickr because it got spread over pintrest or somewhere similar.



Though this has 80,000 views on 500px and near 4000 on flickr.



I'm sure some stuff has a lot more views on photobucket but depends on how they count views I think. photobucket counts how many times the image is served up somewhere, the others how many times someone goes and actively looks at the photo.

[rottie102]

RobDickinson said:

This has 23000 views on flickr because it got spread over pintrest or somewhere similar.



Though this has 80,000 views on 500px and near 4000 on flickr.



I'm sure some stuff has a lot more views on photobucket but depends on how they count views I think. photobucket counts how many times the image is served up somewhere, the others how many times someone goes and actively looks at the photo.

Oi, I said AVERAGE! Stop posting quality stuff here!

[moribund]

I'll restore balance.

This has got over 1400 views, double anything else I have:

Le Mans 24, June 2011 - Lotus Evora GTE No. 65 by giveitfish, on Flickr

Much as I enjoyed seeing Lotus at Le Mans I've no idea why this is so popular.

[RobDickinson]

ok.. this has 4300 views on flickr and my 4th highest. Also sold a licence through getty.. quite average!