Flickr & Comments

Flickr would have to be one of the best internet tools for photographers no matter what genre you shoot or what level you have achieved in your art.

Not only does it faithfully display what you have to say allowing you to show the world your proud snaps, it does so with such minimal bullshit and very low key ads. And all this is free, or $35 for a Pro Account. Still so very cheap compared to a website and trying to get yourself googled enough to get hits.

Its simple. Post your shots, join groups which interest you, then post your photos to these groups, make new friends and next the world opens to you.

Although I exhibit through a few galleries and have an agency which sometimes remembers I am alive, I get the most bang for buck always from Flickr. Most of my work is sold directly to Flickr users. All for $35 a year.

My groups all pertain to my genre, narrative photography, however I have many friends who shoot everything from florals to amazing landscapes.

A word though to some Flickr users (yes you know who you are). In the street genre, the shot you see is as is where is. Think about that for a minute. Got it? Ok so your comments about try to shoot it from this angle or I would take out that element simply ar'nt applicable in the street world where things happen in an instant and that scene just shot WILL NEVER OCCUR AGAIN. So if its not the way you would have shot it, who cares? Just shut up. Like the shot as the artist performed it for what it is and move on.

The street genre is rapid fire compose and trigger. Hardly anyone does much post processing in these street groups cause its realism they aim to show.

If you are Henry Cartier Bresson, OK comment. But the rest of you? Shut the fuck up and show us your best shots.

We won't comment other than in admiration that you got out there and did it.