My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr

Posted on September 14, 2009, 5:15 pm, by Thomas Hawk, under Photoblog, Photography, Thomas Hawk.

My 30,000th Photograh on Flickr

The photo above represents my 30,000th photograph published to Flickr. It’s a milestone and part of my continuing goal to publish 1,000,000 photos to Flickr before I die. This photograph is from one of my favorite shoots. A shoot I did with my wife and children a ways back in this storm drain in Big Tujunga Canyon.

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  • September 15, 2009 at 1:16 am Thomas Hawk
    My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr The photo above represents my 30,000th photograph published to Flickr. It’s a milestone and part of my continuing goal to publish 1,000,000 photos to Flickr before I die. This photograph is from one of my favorite shoots. A shoot I did with my wife and children a ways back in this storm drain in Big Tujunga Canyon.
  • September 15, 2009 at 1:17 am Prolific Programmer
    @thomasHawk didn't you say you wouldn't use flickr after they were gits once long ago?
  • September 15, 2009 at 1:19 am Kevin Trotman
    Congratulations, Thomas! By the way, that shot would be perfect in my Vanishing Points group... I'll add an invite to it on Flickr.
  • September 15, 2009 at 1:20 am Thomas Hawk
    Hasan, I did stop using Flickr for a while over some some censorship issues a while back. As you know I feel pretty strongly about censorship. I changed my mind though and couldn't really stay away.
  • September 15, 2009 at 1:26 am Peter Renshaw
    "My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr" way to go @thomasHawk. I remember reading yr 10^6 & thinking thats ambitious. Now the Q. In the back of my mind I've been thinking about "how do you a) backup online against flickr takedowns? b) manage & curate the images as times goes on: cost, time etc?
  • September 15, 2009 at 2:02 am Thomas Hawk
    Well mostly I back up my photos by using drobos as primary storage. I also keep another copy of my finished photos on hard drives off location. I upload pretty much the same photos to Flickr and Zooomr. So I've got two copies. Additionally, almost all of my flickr photos are fed into clustershot where they can be marketed for stock photography. I always upload original sized photographs to all sites. So I've got several offline and online copies of every photo. Storage is expensive for sure. But it's part of it and it only gets cheaper over time. In terms of managing and curating my images I probably need to do an update on this for my blog, but each day's photos go into a folder. From there those folders are processed as I have time. Probably 10 to 15% of my images are processed. I'm currently working on processing from Feb. 2009 and am pretty backed up in that dept. I figure later on in life when I don't have a day job and four young kids at home I'll have more time to devote to processing. Still, I probably process about...
  • September 15, 2009 at 3:08 am BraGiu
    Veery nice one Thomas. Good job. :)
  • September 15, 2009 at 4:37 am Alexander Arsky
    Congratulations, Thomas! 970K to go!
  • September 15, 2009 at 5:59 am Kol "Krazy" Tregaskes
    Cool! :-)
  • September 15, 2009 at 9:00 am ilya
    Congratulations, nice one!
  • September 15, 2009 at 9:03 am James Myatt
    Congratulations. Doesn't seem like that long since 20000.
  • September 15, 2009 at 9:47 am Simon Wicks
    Congrats Thomas!
  • September 15, 2009 at 11:17 am Prakash
    Great shot!!!
  • September 15, 2009 at 12:34 pm Patricia F. Anderson
    30,000, wow! Made me look. I'm only just past 20,000. Had no idea where I was. Need to pay attention to those landmarks. This is a wonderful shot, but then so many of yours are. You live to witness and share beauty.
  • September 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm David Cook
    Awesome!
  • September 15, 2009 at 8:50 pm Rob Kramer
    Congratulations, and a beautiful picture. Thanks again for sharing
  • September 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm Patrick
    That's a great photo, good work.
  • September 15, 2009 at 10:18 pm imran
    good stuff
  • September 15, 2009 at 11:24 pm Matt Penning
    500 a week! I feel slug-like. I'm so glad you do what you do with your talent at photography. Thank you for your inspiration and dedication to your craft, 4 children and spouse and a full time career aside. Very thought provoking and challenging. Congratulations on your milestone.
  • September 15, 2009 at 11:31 pm John (a.k.a. dendroica)
    Congrats on reaching 30,000! Your artwork is always interesting.
  • September 15, 2009 at 11:49 pm Zachary TG
    Wow! 30,000?
  • September 16, 2009 at 12:14 am Heather
    congrats Thomas! I always look at flickr each day to see what you have uploaded :)
  • September 17, 2009 at 5:31 pm Arijit Das
    Congrats!!

8 Comments

  1. Gail Peck says:
    September 14, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    They are brave and the photograph is stunning!

  2. Gary says:
    September 14, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    This is interesting… how did you light this?

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  4. plug1 says:
    September 14, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    congratulations, this is no small feat.

    you have inspired many along the way, becoming a 2x day part of our daily ritual.

  5. tangobaby says:
    September 15, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Congratulations! What an achievement and a beautiful photo, too!

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    September 15, 2009 at 10:12 pm

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  7. jrodmanjr says:
    September 16, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Well done, sir! Quite an accomplishment, and sets the bar high for every other bay area photog. Keep up that continually great work!

  8. Arvid says:
    September 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Awesome! Way the go!

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