why? who knows. well, I don't anyway.
An example of the maddening and ultimately futile pursuit of chasing 'popular', whatever that means to you, on social networks.
You can finesse a photo with processing, make sure your composition and everything else is technically on the nose, get it just so and finally decide it's perfect, then post it.
Nothing.
Then perhaps you post a casual smartphone snap of what is, for me, at least once a week visit on the route the dog and I take on a walk on the cliffs, near where I live. Sometimes it's sunny and nice and I take a picture. Sometimes it's not so nice but the lighting is still great so I take a picture. Other times it's all grey, raining, and blowing a hooley, so I don't even stop there.
This one is pretty much unedited. Cropped a bit and maybe a bit of saturation (my phone favours a flatter, more neutral rendition). It's just a view that I am lucky enough to have on my doorstep, and have many photos of in different seasons.
I published it on my Fediverse account after coming home from the walk that day with a fairly casual comment that took about three seconds to get from brain to type.
And it went mad. Current figures are well over 500 likes, and many boosts.
I still have no idea why it caught so many likes and boosts. About ten would be a good haul for me normally.
Nearly a year later later, it still occasionally has a fizzle. Someone sees it, likes and boosts it, and off it goes again.
And I have no idea why. I do not understand what people are seeing in it. Yep, it's nice, but not that nice, surely?
But you never know. Or at least, I obviously don't.
Other people aren't photographers and being critical about it being just so like me. And the Fediverse audience is worldwide - maybe a lot of them live nowhere near the sea and love it because it satisfies their expectation of what Cornwall can be like.
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