Not long ago I posted an image to Facebook, which showed my Flickr Stream click count. I had hit 3.000.000 total clicks and was (and still am) very proud of that, as it is the result of more than five years of continous shooting, uploading, networking and time investing.

Early in the morning today I opened Flickr to check my recent activity as usual and instantly realized an unusual amount of comments on my “Sick Fearless Bastard”. In order to check where all the people came from I went to check my stats page, which at this point displayed about 180.000 clicks…ONLY TODAY! I could not believe my eyes. I continued to check the referrers and sure enough, all the people seemed to have come from the Flickr Blog. One click further, I found this.

Turns out Flickr decided to use my shot as the featured image for the “Best Shot 2013″ announcement. Not only was my shot featured in the article besides others, as the featured image it also shows up in the sitebar of the Flickr Homepage, which means that pretty much every Flickr user sees it these days.

It’s crazy, it’s lucky, it’s pretty cool and it’s unexpected. Neither did I post my image to any group for this purpose nor did anyone tell me about this before. Considering that this image was taken in 2010 it is surprising that they would use it for the purpose of advertising their “Best Shot 2013″, however, I guess they decided to choose the best shots they could find in order to get people interested.

So, pretty exactly 24 hours after this Flickr blog post was being published in the english, german and french version of the Flickr Blog, my stats look like this:

This equals:

• 292.342 Clicks
• 4.478 Favourites
• 319 Comments

This is easily the most active day my flickr stream ever had. Thank you Flickr and all you out there who appreciate what I do! 

Yours

Crazy Ivory

As I already wrote before, one of my images is featured in an amazing collection of 40 poems written by Jonathan Steffen, that is each matched with one photograph of one international photographer. I was very lucky to be chosen to be one of them, and am very thankful for that.

A few days ago I finally received my printed copy of the 88-page coffeetable book, that I want to share with you now.

It makes me very proud, because this is something totally new to me. Even though images of mine have already been used in magazines or as book covers before, I am much more proud on this publication.

It was produced in direct contact with me, and also, the whole process from the first mail until today took about 22 months, which made me very eager for the final result.

I love this, and its one of the best things in the life of a photographer IMHO.

And here is the shot they used on Flickr:

Thank you to Melanie Gow for leading me and the other photographers through the whole production process, and also thank you for the nice interview you conducted with me.

Oh, and if you want to buy a copy of the book, you can do that here.

I am very happy to have been part of this project.

Thank you all for visiting!

Yours

Ivo

About 2 years ago I received the request, whether I would agree with one of my images being used in a coffee table book.
I was quite fascinated by the idea, and since my first publication wouldnt come until about a year later, I was extremely excited. 

This book “Exposure” is a collection of 40 poems, written by Jonathan Steffen, each matched with a different photograph, by a different photographer from around the world. This is the shot that they took from me:

The official publication date is September 01 2012, and already today, the amazing book editor Melanie Gow, who also communicated with me over the whole 2 years, published an interview with me on her website.

Interview with Glow Magazine

I am about to receive my printed copy in the next few days and will definitely keep you posted.

This is soo exciting!