I have to say that the Flickr Stats are the best thing that ever happened to my account.
When I first started using my stats it came to my attention, with one significant blow, the nature of the key words that my images were linked to. I know for a fact that none of my photos are tagged with 'sex', 'woman bending over', 'pregnant sex', 'nude teen' etc. yet THOSE were very popular search words that kept coming up in the stats feed.
Naturally I was horrified and would search my tags and groups to see how on earth my images could get mixed up in all of that smut but I couldn't find the connection. It wasn't even an issue of blogs because no one but I can blog my photos. (I also learned that the hard way)
This particular black and white shot kept being linked to the above tags:
There are a good amount of comments on that image but it dawned on me that there were some invites to some objectionable groups posted amongst them. Even though I have never added my images to those groups I wonder if by having those invites sitting in my comment pool could be the reason that this photo was being exposed to so many odd search words so often. It wasn't a one off thing, 'The Art of Sleep' had 'pregnant sex' and the like in it's stats every day!
Anyways, so I hope that by deleting those invites and running through the tags again that this sort of traffic should be cut off.
Also, I'm going to refrain from tagging my photos with various body part names featured as there seems to be a fetish for everything, feet seeming to be a very common ones these days.
Hrm...
Reading everything that I have written above I can see how I must be coming across as a prude so let me defend myself quickly.
I am not against people having fetishes and fantasies and I am in no way trying to rid the world of it. I simply feel that there is a time and a place for everything and Flickr is not one of those places.
Yes, I really hate pornography but I know that it will always be a part of life. That doesn't mean that it has to be a part of MY life so I will pertinaciously push it away.
Flickr is a photography sharing site for amateur to professional photographers to share their work and gain exposure and constructive criticism. It's meant to build up the photographers not discourage them. The amount of photographers that I have seen break down and want to leave Flickr due to numerous men and women leaving them sexually graphic, violent and disgraceful messages and have gone so far as to make them feel as though their lives are genuinely threatened is unacceptable. It doesn't encourage a photographer when their body of work is being reduced to nothing more than someone's fix. It doesn't inspire anything positive and it doesn't enhearten confidence in ability or self. I see this happening a lot with self portrait artists especially. I too have received messages that have given me reason to want to protect myself and this is what I am doing. I no longer wish to be the recipient of words that make me feel violated and angry. I just want to enjoy Flickr photography in peace.
And when I think about it, I have a foot fetish of sorts. I accrue great pleasure from having countless feet between my self portraits and people that are going to use them to tickle their fantasies.
Oh yeah. That makes me feel so good. ;)
Feel free to express your sexuality. However, don't do so in my comments, tags or flickr mail. Get it?
Oh well.
Anywhoo, another Saturday in the office. I'm looking forward to getting out of here in six hours.
I have one more photo to share from the shoot that I did last Monday so I have my camera at the ready in case something exhilarates my creativity. Sadly not even my cafe latte has exhilarated me much today. Oh well...maybe I'll stumble into some nice lighting or something.
I'd really like to do a shoot of my partner but the trick is getting him to sit still while I try! Haha!
It's quite a pretty day actually! A little grey but pretty all the same. I need to run down to the office supplies shop in a moment to pick up a folder for my notes on my short story book that I really hope I can manage to complete!
I'll have some time to work on more notes tomorrow night. Hurrah.
It's always nice when you have a nifty note folder to put your ideas in. Hehe. Perhaps I will do that now.
Well...nothing else to report. You have a great weekend!!
AArchibald
x
2 comments:
what if your sexuality is a kind thing that seeks same?
pornography serves a purpose. 99.9% of it is trash, but that doesn't mean my 99.9% is the same material as someone else's 99.9%... and there are great differences between erotic art and porn, yet the two cross over each other so often and sometimes not by intent.
i haven't the following you have, on flickr. i can't. i'm male, for starters, and i've been deleted twice. my pro account was huge. my current free account is 20 images away from being full. might open another free one, pretend to flickr staff that i'm someone else so that i'm not black-listed on that one, too...
but i've only just found my sexuality and it has been with the help of people who were... emotionally unstable and relationship incapable. sexuality means much to me, but i've no way of expressing it or being it.
i am, most of the time, alone. i no longer fully trust the one last person who still maintains an interest in me so my sexual interest has waned considerably. i don't feel... the pull. it's similar to when a relationship becomes too routine, but this has to do with trust and the ability for each person to be interested in the same way at the same time.
i'm rambling. i thought i had a point, but i guess i lost it.
This is one of my fav photo's of yours, but not for any sexual or fetish like reasons, and never has been. I found it to have a certain sweetness and innocence to it.. like, what is she dreaming about? It also reminded me of happier times when there was a 'she' in my life... and 'she' would always sleep like that... legs and feet all sticking out from under the covers. I always thought it was... cute, for lack of a better descriptive word.
As for what you say about Flickr, I agree with most of what you feel about it. Alternatively, I've thought for some time now, and in many ways, it is (slowly?) becoming another form of a MySpace (of sorts). I deleted my MySpace account some time ago. I've thought many times about doing the same with my Flickr stream, even looking for and trying out other sites to replace it but then I realised that if I just be more selective about contacts, it might be a better place. For now.. I'll stick with it.
...and now I"m rambling... toodles! :)
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