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A loaded export iron ore train has just departed Spencer Jct yard bound for Whyalla, South Australia, on Monday 4 September 2023. Aurizon's GWB104 leads the consist with GWB 102 and 105, seen in the distance, bringing up the rear in distributed power mode.
This is my 6000th upload on Flickr. At the time I posted my 5000th upload, not quite four years ago, I was averaging 450 uploads a year, but this has now dropped to around 250 a year since then.
There are several reason for this. I rarely go out with the camera these days. the local scene no longer appeals and I've not done much travelling of late, so there's little 'new' material. Plenty of slides and negs still to scan, but I've been slack in that department.
I think also that Flickr has lost a lot of its appeal and is losing the fight against other social media platforms. I can generate a hundred times the interest and comments from posting an image on Facebook. It also appears that Flickr's algorithms and counters are totally stuffed these days.
Of course on FB it quickly gets lost in the sands of time and a deluge of other pixels, whereas Flickr still does a pretty good job as an archive, especially from a personal point of view.
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Upload 6000
A loaded export iron ore train has just departed Spencer Jct yard bound for Whyalla, South Australia, on Monday 4 September 2023. Aurizon's GWB104 leads the consist with GWB 102 and 105, seen in the distance, bringing up the rear in distributed power mode.
This is my 6000th upload on Flickr. At the time I posted my 5000th upload, not quite four years ago, I was averaging 450 uploads a year, but this has now dropped to around 250 a year since then.
There are several reason for this. I rarely go out with the camera these days. the local scene no longer appeals and I've not done much travelling of late, so there's little 'new' material. Plenty of slides and negs still to scan, but I've been slack in that department.
I think also that Flickr has lost a lot of its appeal and is losing the fight against other social media platforms. I can generate a hundred times the interest and comments from posting an image on Facebook. It also appears that Flickr's algorithms and counters are totally stuffed these days.
Of course on FB it quickly gets lost in the sands of time and a deluge of other pixels, whereas Flickr still does a pretty good job as an archive, especially from a personal point of view.
80D_2_8_7394