tube socks and daisy dukes
I was deleting some of my old links in my browser when I came across a couple versions of my previous blogs…those blogs are long gone, but I still had access to their stats. A funny thing happened when I looked up the stats of how people were getting to my blog, and low and behold, I was able to determine which photos were viewed the most. In the interest of SEO (search engine optimization), I repost them here.
The above photo was from a spring training game of New York Mets fans Vikki Layer and her sister, Kellie, with their homemade shirts and matching tube socks sharing a laugh outside of the girls bathroom at the Washington Nationals ballapark. Innocent enough, but by a far margin the most viewed image on my first “Redlights and Redeyes” blog.
The following image of the daisy duke wearin’ Dirty Girls, Amanda Schappacher, left to right, Rachelle Eavis, and Samantha Whitehead selling beer at a bike rally for the Sloppy Holes Mud’N Club out of Myakka City beat the traffic of the tube socks on the second version of aforementioned blog – in a much shorter time. I don’t think I can even post the keywords that brought people to that post. You can use your imagination and figure it out.
While I can appreciate the fact that the general public is making it to my blog, it makes me think about blogs serving as the new refrigerator. People cutting, pasting, and plastering their favorite content up as a magnet for strangers to have something to look at when they come to your party and have nothing else to do. I wish I could imagine most are photo lovers, but my guess is no. For the most part, those of us that keep up with their photo blogs are out there preaching to the choir – other photographers, friends, and editors. People who understand vision, f/stops, and composition.
I guess it is only fair that it happens when we decide to put a photo out there. After all, it is their world we’re documenting.
Oh, Internet.
