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there will be birds by u n c o m m o n

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🇹🇼 內湖・📍公館山 / Gongguan Mountain∣ Taipei City Neihu District by 鹽味九K ( IG: iwakuma.kelvin)

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A gouarec. by Joy Bajay

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12 HUÎTRES by patrick janicek

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Comment imaginer ne pas pouvoir déguster au moins une fois des huîtres en bord de mer ?

LAZISE 7 by montecelia

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Prepared to launch... Great Gray Owl...#4 by Guy Lichter

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All comments regarding this picture, subject, composition, etc are welcome and appreciated. TIA.

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A Bot is a Bot by Luminosity 7

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COMMENT: Of Bots and Bad Pandas

After trying to log in to Flickr numerous times without success earlier today, I gave up. Too many Bad Pandas. No point posting photos if half the people can't get on to see them. I don't know why this platform is the only one we know that goes down so regularly. Looking at the Help Forum this is a worldwide problem. But that happens to be the least of our problems on Flickr.

There is something more important existentially that goes on every single day on everyone's page that far too many people are turning a blind eye to. I'm talking about bot use. For those who still live in a prelapsarian social media world, bots are either (1) pieces of internet code written specifically to trawl the pages of Flickr faving and in some cases commenting (generically) in order to garner reciprocal visits - you can buy them, or (2) humans behaving in a bot-like manner, simply faving and following as many people as possible in the hope of achieving the same goals - inflated views, faves and followers. Frankly I'm sick of it.

So much so that I will block any person I see that exhibits this bot-like tendency. My list of blocks is hundreds long. Of course this has seen a falloff in my own view numbers. We don't seriously think that all those views of our old photos are real do we? If say you post 3 photos a day and each of them gets 500 views in 24 hours and your total view count for the day is 5,000. I would argue a good percentage of all those extra 3,500 views are in fact unblocked bots.

Opponents of bots on social media platforms (and Flickr is by no means the worst here) estimate that up to 50 percent of all traffic on these sites is bot-driven. Now bots are easy to understand when the corruption of monetarization comes into play. That is not the case on Flickr. But ego is. And it seems to me that ego will drive some people to do very bad things to attract attention to themselves.

Have you ever wondered why that awful out of focus picture of the Grand Canyon has attracted 65,000 views and 1,500 faves? Well very likely this person is using a massive bot. And many people fave unthinkingly. Go to the Activities Feed and press the fave star and you don't even need to visit a person's page. You can fave thousands in an hour or two doing that. But what a hollow feeling. And what does it do for the photography community?

Explore is another area rife with gaming strategies. How many times do you see the usual suspects turn up on a person's page with "Congrats on Explore"? That's the only time they'll visit your page by the way (that's if you're lucky enough to ever get Explored because it seems only magic accounts do every 16-19 days). These are a group of people who fave (or by proxy their bot does) every one of the 500 Explored photos each day, in the belief it will garner them more "followers" (how I hate that word - CONTACTS is so much better). So if you have been in the habit of doing that there is an excellent chance I will have blocked you.

Of course the most dangerous bots of all are the ones pretending to comment. People think they are real, but AI is very clever now. And one in particular has been at the centre of attention during this week. Banned by Flickr after being clearly outed by a "bot catcher". He gets banned, and then the whistleblower gets banned too for exposing the biggest bot commenter on Flickr. All this ended up with the whistleblower rightly being restored, but also the return of the bot user. Some of you will have followed proceedings very closely.

Frankly I've advocated for a long time for view counts to be discontinued. Thousands of views do not make a good photograph. Social media has been bad for photography in that regard. It's made photographers complacent, and even worse, made them conform to particular styles or genres that "succeed" - as if that matters. Photography is an individual art and everyone is unique.

Always remember that not another soul saw Vivian Maier's photographs before she died. And I dare say you rarely see photographs on Flickr even half as good as the ones she spent a lifetime taking.

So if you feel like I do about the integrity of Flickr and bot use, please join us at this group:

....don't like bot-comments/faves? Join us, post your photos there.

Please post it to the Anti-Bots and Anti-Fake group.

* A final point. Mr Ed was a talking horse and not a bot user.

Solar roof 034 DSC09735 by Ricardo Gomez A

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selena & david. by lyssa christine

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COMMENT. SAY THANKS.

don't just jack it and re-post.

it's called common courtesy, people.

and it means more free rares.

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Solfatara di Pomezia by Armando Moreschi Check out my albums

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Not only comment , but please favorites. Many thanks!

La Solfarata di Pomezia è un luogo che si trova all’interno della Riserva Naturale di Decima-Malafede e tantissimi anni fa era una enorme cava di Zolfo e Ferro ormai abbandonata.

花蓮玉里鎮・赤柯山 / Chike Mountain ∣ Yuli by 鹽味九K ( IG: iwakuma.kelvin)

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Montmartre at night : Restaurant Chez Marie, Paris | davidgiralphoto.com by David Giral

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Marys Flowers by Bob

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Lesser Scaup_Hen by pamfromcalgary

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Bridlewood Wetlands is almost always a great place to visit!

Thanks for your visits and comments! They are all greatly appreciated!

Sand In The Wind by Jack Heath

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a pheasant coucal (non-breeding) #2 by Chris Burns

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Many thanks for the visits, faves and comments. Cheers

Pheasant Coucal

Scientific Name: Centropus phasianinus

Description: A large 'pheasant-like', ground-dwelling cuckoo, the Pheasant Coucal has a long tail and short rounded wings. In its breeding plumage, it has a black head, neck and underbody with the upperparts and wings reddish-brown with black and cream barring and the black tail is barred orange. Out of breeding, the head and back return to a reddish chestnut colour and the underparts are cinnamon brown, with all streaked boldly white. The eye is red. Sexes are similar in plumage, but females are larger than males. Young birds look like paler, non-breeding adults with orange spots on the head, neck and upper body. When disturbed, coucals run rather than fly, or fly clumsily, plunging into cover. Unlike most other cuckoos, the Pheasant Coucal is not a nest parasite.

Distribution: The Pheasant Coucal is found in northern and eastern Australia, as well as New Guinea and East Timor. It is found from the Pilbara, Western Australia, to south-eastern New South Wales. In New South Wales it is mainly found east of the Great Dividing Range from the Queensland border to the southern Hunter region, with some around Sydney and further south to Illawarra.

Habitat: The Pheasant Coucal prefers dense understorey vegetation, particularly grasses, rushes, bracken and sedges, in open forests and woodlands, and around wetlands. Often found in sugar cane plantations near wetlands, on farmlands with thick grasses and weed-infested thickets, such as Lantana. Often seen in parks, gardens and along roads or railway lines.

Seasonal movements: Sedentary.

Feeding: The Pheasant Coucal feeds on the ground on large insects, frogs, lizards, eggs and young of birds and, sometimes, small mammals.

Breeding: Pheasant Coucals form lasting pairs and, unlike other Australian cuckoos, build their own nests and raise their young themselves. The nest is usually hidden in thick grass or sugar cane or in weedy thickets and is a platform of sticks, grass or rushes, lined with leaves and grasses. The male usually incubates the eggs and feeds the young, with the female helping with feeding. More than one clutch can be laid in one season. The Pheasant Coucal is the only Australian cuckoo to build its own nest. It also lives and nests on the ground, unlike other cuckoos.

Calls: Deep, hollow 'oop-oop-oop-oop'; also a metallic tapping call.

Minimum Size: 50cm

Maximum Size: 70cm

Average size: 60cm

Average weight: 380g

Breeding season: September to March

Clutch Size: 3 to 5

Incubation: 15 days

Nestling Period: 13 days

(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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My view of new hopes and dreams by Ahmad Hafidz Abdul Kadir

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Description: 2014-04-12 - Making plans the night before for a milkyway session that I so yearn for, it was called off upon waking up at 2am to a heavy rain. Making my way back to bed, I made a mental note to wake up in a few hours with hope that I would get some nice sunrise instead at the Putrajaya Dam. Arriving late at location that morning to a sky that starts to "burn", I was struggling to decide on the composition that I would stayed for my time-lapse shoot. After a few minutes (and losing some of the "burning sky" moment), I decided to stay at this composition for a whole 600++ frames. Alhamdulillah the clouds formation and lights fall was one of the beautiful sunrise that I have witness. The image was one of the frames in the middle of the time-lapse session that day as the sun starts to come out of the horizon.

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DSC_01341 by 刘同旭 Taylor-Lau

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No Comment !!! by Antwann ♫♪

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Luthier Shop (and other trade as you can see) - Violin Maker Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Organic by Bob

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too much beauty in this world , dont let me miss it. by Saleha jamil

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before in the comments :)

it isnt tinted , just played around with levels .

I was taught bout levels by one of the most famous young photographer here in Qatar Habeeb Abu Futtaim .

I realllllllly realllllly thank him for this.

though i am just a beginner since last two years. And not everything is perfect here. I want to learn about alot more stuff. Because i see how im improving. I can improve really fast but what can i do ? i'm Always busy with my house , family. Morning is the only time i can give to my hobby , to my passion. ( getting a lil boring here) :p

listening to this since forever.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7GFdkZqv9c

Old men's toy DSC03933 by Ricardo Gomez A

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Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.

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Honey moon over Silicon Valley by Peter Thoeny - Quality HDR Photography

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Thank you for visiting, commenting and fav'ing - very much appreciated! Press "F" if you like it!

Last night was a "honey moon", so called because the June full moon is the one most likely of all the full moons of the year to glow yellow throughout the night. I took this shot East of San Jose airport - you can see a rooftop construction, the tail of an aircraft, and Mt. Hamilton in the background.

I took multiple exposures, but I noticed that the moon is moving too fast at 200mm zoom, so there was ghosting between the exposures. I post processed a single RAW exposure into a balanced HDR photo to enhance the micro-contrast.

HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6,_DSC1641_hdr1bal1d

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Ending the vacation. Enjoyed a lot with my loves - wife and daughter! Returning home. For the metropolis of São Paulo. by Marcos Jerlich

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This is Brazil, Santos city!

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M in the buttercups '89 by Jonathan Charles

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From "The Naked Portrait" series. There is something special in the look of a head-and-shoulders portrait taken when naked – often this can be missed because the viewer naturally wants to take in the whole view. I am therefore making a series of "naked portraits", cropped from original nude photos, which can also be flagged "safe" so they can be seen by a wider range of people. This one was just topless, not completely nude (until a few minutes later, when I didn't get around to taking another photo) but in a rather daring situation – a public park. I think it captures the same feeling...

I found another fun photo taken in 1989, of M sitting seductively in a wonderful field of buttercups on a hot summer's day. We were in parkland near Sevenoaks and had a couple of hours free while the kids were off on a pony ride.

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