What draws people to this picture?
Ok this one has me scratching my head. When you post pictures on airliners.net or myaviation.net they record the number if hits your photos take. Well airliner.net is a huge site and you practically have to be a perfect photographer to get your photos accepted on their site but if you are so lucky or skillful to do so you get enormous amounts of hits as people view and download them. It's a bit of an ego busting experience however because you normally get 10 rejections before getting a picture accepted so I've uploaded my most recent pictures on myaviation.net instead. It's the sister site of airliners.net that acts as a personal storage space for anyone with aviation photos. There are no rejections and they still count and have many of the same features you find on airliners.net.... so I uploaded my pictures of my flight on Swiss airlines last June... or at least so far the part that covers the trip over there and there's been a strange phenomena with the last batch...
For some reason this photo (see below, click image for larger version) has got a lot of hits (for MyAviation.net) and I really don't understand why. There's absolutely nothing special about it. It doesn't even show much of the aircraft. There are no exceptionally good looking women or men in the photo, just average people doing a very ordinary thing... queuing up to board an airliner. It's about as mundane as it gets... It should logically be ignored. Is there anyone out there with any clue why someone would be attracted to this particular image especially when there are others I think at least are far prettier and more interesting from an aviation stand point? If you saw it what would draw you to click it open and look closer ?
MyAviation.net:
Photographer © Doug Bull
Meanwhile Photos like these sit next to it and have hardly been viewed yet I think they are far more interesting?
MyAviation.net:
Photographer © Doug Bull
MyAviation.net:
Photographer © Doug Bull
MyAviation.net:
Photographer © Doug Bull
Anyways.. more stuff coming later. Sheila & I checked out some townhouses on the west island and Clem, Pascal and I went out for a drink last night and got a plan laid out for an emergency survival pack for 7 days if the city was ever hit with a crisis that debilitated it like New Orleans.
2 Comments:
My guess is that you've captured a life moment - the slow entry into the cabin that everyone has experienced at one point or another. It strikes me as an unconventional photo of an aircraft (but I'm guessing here as I have not seen a lot of aircraft photos). The other photos you posted here seem to me to be much like the ones found in anyone's collection of photos of vacations and trips - but not so with the first photo. That's my best stab at the question posed here. I would add as well that the perspective of the photo puts the photo viewer in the line that is captured by your lense (seemingly) - and this is always an interesting trait of art (particularly for me).
I wondered too if perhaps it was just unconventional. On airliners.net and myaviation.net though every conceivabe angle of aviation is eventually covered.
I suspect also people are interested in people. On these two sites cabin interior shots are often the most looked at. Viewers like to see people in among the planes I suppose. Afterall we vary all the time, a 747 is a 747 no matter what colour it's painted in.
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