I'm In Denial

For the past week or so, I've been getting an unusual amount of people listing me as a contact on Flickr. I thought it was due to my "online persona" that one of my contacts attributed to me. Being an humble person, I listed these people as contacts too, and thought little more about it.

Then yesterday, I received an email from another Flickr friend telling me that there was a rumor sneaking about that I was some kind of administrator for Flickr's Explore. Explore is for 500 select photographs each day that some person or persons in the higher Flickr ranks consider most interesting.

Explore is something I paid little attention to until a few weeks ago, when some of my contacts began showing thumbnails of their photos that were selected for Explore. The thumbnails went from just a few to several hundred. I usually left these deserving contacts a comment congratulating them for their excellent work.

I answered the email with a denial and this fact; if I was an Explore selector, I believe I could arrange to have one or two of my own photos show up there—deserving or not—and I have exactly none, as far as I know.

The only real "award" that I've received—other than kind words from my friends—for my Flickr photos is "Photo of the Day" in the Best of Flickr group. That, and the possibility having a photo published in an European magazine, is enough for me.

I am not, nor have I ever been a a member of Flickr or Yahoo administration.

I will get back to my thoughts on the Flickr Explore thing later.

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I haven't asked lately: How are y'all doing?