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 Serving the Niche The way to generate traffic for the pictures you take is to group them by interest, subject or location and aggregate them in topical albums. In this manner you can post the album link in your social media groups and pages for the audience which is already there. In this one example I posted a picture of what I call Legacy Tracks. They are the few remaining segments of the once extensive Pittsburgh Railway Company. What was once over 600 miles of urban and suburban street tracks and private ROW is now relegated to 8 known segments consisting of less than 700 yards of track. Many Pittsburghers miss the heyday of the trolleys. Others hated them and are glad to see the tracks covered in asphalt or pulled and concreted. Description in in the Album Across the nation and internationally there are hundreds of thousands of people who love the beauty and functionality of the streetcars and interurban passenger rail services. They are extremely image oriented. After postin...

Viewing Parameters of a ClickaSnap photo platform profile This data is for one specific subscriber so other result may vary. The profile is: Lens4anEye First a few initial conditions. The account presented here has been active since the end of January 2023. At the writing of this article it has been 7 months. About 600 other subscribers have opted to follow it.  There are 1355 images in the set an have collectively had 35,300 views. These views have generated about $126 total revenues. Some of the statistics which have been gleaned from the sites reporting functions are as follows.     Over the life of the profile the average daily Paid-view ratio is 40%.     On a daily basis the ratio can be as high as 70% and as low as 18%.     Intraday ratios can vary greatly starting out very high and falling in subsequent hours.     Contrary to conventional wisdom the greater View counts result in the lower Paid-view ratios.  ...

The Benefits of Link Shorteners Making your links more stylish and readable makes people more comfortable in clicking on them. A long cryptic URL is not inviting. It doesn’t confer any information about where it leads. https://bit.ly/BraddockAlbum says that the subject is “Braddock” and it’s an “Album”. The person looking at the link may not know if Braddock is a person, place or thing but the context of the link or the search can narrow the interpretation.   Likewise the word “Album” could be music or photos. Context will again give clues to its nature. When you create a short URL with Bitly  it points to 1 location forever. The second part is yours the /BraddockAlbum part is a unique identifier. For example on the ClickaSnap photo sharing platform file names and album names are not exclusive to until user. Actually, a subscriber can use the exact same title on any number of photos. That is not a wise idea but it works. Within CAS many subscribers may create an Album u...

Left Brain - Right Brain [ Lens4anEye ] My left brain writes a story, punctuates the sentences and proofs the content. My right brain sees the the pictures and focuses the camera to capture the images which are also the story. In reality it is usually the image side leading the context side through to the final presentation.  It takes both sides working simultaneously to get the job done. One cannot exist without the other. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but getting the picture takes far longer. I’m my world a picture is worth a thousand miles. <=== Click here for larger image ===   The usual approach is to select a destination, choose the mode of transportation and hit the road or airways, et al. While my right brain is busy getting the photography just right, my left side is recording what I think about it. Then when the images are done the words can follow. Every image tells a story and every story conjures an image.   Both aspects are e...

There are the Scenes Along the Highway and then the Highway Itself by Robert Carlson    [ Lens4anEye ]   Some highways are suited to 70 and 80 mph speeds without much fuss or bother. They are straight and flat with few other travelers nearby. One can floor the gas pedal and nearly fly along watching only the road ahead and for anything which might enter your path of travel. Click here for the full Scenes Along the Highway Album. click for larger image   The miles are both long and short. Long as in many of them and short as in each one passes in 45    to 50 seconds. The landscape is beautiful even if monotonous. Those mountains in the distance don’t change much from one hour to the next. Your peripheral views remain pretty much the same too.  click for larger image   Then suddenly there IS something. A sun bleached abode with missing planks. A horse standing in a wire fenced dirt patch. A rusty pickup truck surrounded by bald tires strewn ...

Johnson Farm House, Frostburg, Maryland by Robert Carlson [ Lens4anEye ]   This is one of my earliest encounters with the Johnson Farm House. It had been sitting vacant for a couple of decades when I drove past it in about 1990.  The highway is US 40, also named as The National Road and extends all the way across the country to the west coast.   The location was on my route between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. That was a trip I would make 3 or 4 times a year to visit family and friend. Most of those trips were in conjunction with holidays; July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mothers and Fathers day. Interstate Highway 68 parallels the US 40 road and the house could be seen if anyone bothered to look to the side as they sped by.     Each time I reached the location just west of Frostburg, I would stop for another set of photographs which recorded the slow-motion slide toward oblivion for this once great hou...

L4aE Albums These links go to my ClickASnap.com albums I made these for easy access to the topics Main ClickASnap Profile Page The following Buttons go directly to one of my photo albums where you can navigate among the pictures and see the descriptions. Close the album TAB to come back to this list. State Hospitals Cars Doors New Orleans Pittsburgh Braddock Railroad Blues Black & White Scenes Along the Highway Bridges New Mexico Best of Best Rural and Small Town Bank Buildings Older Uploads Street Coins Mail Pouch Macro Front Porch Collection Cemeteries The Circular Church Churches Macros All the pictures displayed are avail for purchase as various sized prints (framed or unframed) and as high-res .jpg files. Email to Publish@ModalChoice.com for inquiries regarding all commercial use. All photos are copyright by Robert Carlson 2019-2023