Brent's 2020 Self-Aggrandizement Photography Post
Back with probably no demand whatsoever, it has become my yearly tradition early in the year to look back at all of my photos and crunch the numbers to see how everything did.
2020 accomplishments:
I sold a photo to be aired on Quibi on a British TV show.
There is a website which lets you track how many counties in America you have visited. Someday, I'd like to visit every county in America, but at the end of 2020, I have been to 584 counties, which makes up 18.58% of America. In limited travel this year, I visited 12 new counties this year. Most were in Georgia, but a couple were in South Carolina.
Flickr says this rusty and crusty neon sign was my most interesting photo from 2020:
Other Favorites:
My Wife and I spent the night in this "fun to be Retro" hotel. See a slideshow video of the experience here.
The next night, my wife and I spent the night in this old hotel which is claimed to be haunted. I talk about our experience in this video slideshow.
Other videos this year include:
A Trip on the Benton Houston Ferry
A tour of the sinkholes at Sharp Springs Park
The Frank Sutton (Sgt. Carter) statue
We found a Mystery Bottle!
In 2020, I took more than 8700 photos. That sounds like a lot, but I average about 20,000 a year.
Most of my publishing-worthy photos are uploaded to Flickr. I now have a total of 10,624 of which about 310 were uploaded in 2020. These photos have been viewed collectively 15,619,855 times. During 2013, Flickr changed what's considered a "view" making more things count than what used to. As a number cruncher, this irritates me, so 1.1 million views in 2020 doesn't mean as much as it used to. (By comparison, in 2012 I had about 500,000 views.)
2010 was the first year of my website, SeeMidTN.com. My webhost's stats show last year I had 20,285 unique visitors who made 34,450 visits viewing a total of 112,828 page views with 490,560 total hits (the stats exclude the 100,000 hits by robots / spiders / crawlers). the website used 14.56 GB of bandwidth. 42.3% of visitors are Mac users which is barely more than the Windows users. 51.7% people browsed with Chrome and 2 people used a browser called Konqueror (I've never heard of it), which is still more than MS Edge. I set up a Facebook account which now has 119 followers and a twitter feed with 77 followers. These were set up as a set-it-and-forget-it tools that re-post my other content, but still has room for growth.
In 2015, I set up a Pinterest page where I re-post my popular Flickr photos. I also have a couple of boards where I pin my favorite photos taken by others, so this is going to skew the data of my original content. In 2020, I also created a board which will re-post all content from my blog. Pinterest tells me in 2020 I had 464,400 impressions, an audience of 313,700, 18,300 engagements and an engaged audience of 11,600. I have (unknown) pins on 16 boards. My most popular pin was the Statue of Justice at the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis. I don't fully understand Pinterest stats but they tell me I now average 23,070 monthly viewers with 31,510 impressions while 737 users are engaged with 1,190 engagements.
The highlight of my website is the daily blog. In mid 2017 my day job started to take too much of my time and I no stopped posting. However, in 2020 with the extra time at home, I added new content again. Blogger.com's count of page views reports I had 387,703 page views spanning 2,695 posts in 11 years at the end of 2020, with 27,000 views in 2020. I wish I could find the page where Google lists the searches people typed in to find me. Mostly, so I could look at the weird ones. once a person typed in "olive pit allergy" to get to my site.
I also have a YouTube channel. Most of my top viewed videos are recordings of my dad's early music groups. However, in 2020 with the extra free time, I made various new content. Some of the videos were based on SeeMidTN content, I also had unrelated content of baseball cards, coins, and mystery box unboxings. All-time, I have 726,037 views with about 38,000 in 2000. A new stat they offer: In 2020, My videos have been watched for 1700 hours, making an all-time total of 6108 hours, or not quite half-way for monetization eligibility. The most watched video of all-time is a recording of "Salvation has Been Brought Down" at the 2011 Diana Singing with 40,000 views. My most-watched video recorded in 2020 was an unboxing of mystery silver coins purchased off ebay, with 2,694 hours
This year, I'm adding info about MariLynn's youtube channel, which blows mine away. Especially since she gets enough views to have ads in her videos. She has a lot of fun with her Tarantulas on it. As of the end of 2020, she has 3435 subscribers. She has 661,200 views for a total of 49,600 hours.
2020 accomplishments:
I sold a photo to be aired on Quibi on a British TV show.
There is a website which lets you track how many counties in America you have visited. Someday, I'd like to visit every county in America, but at the end of 2020, I have been to 584 counties, which makes up 18.58% of America. In limited travel this year, I visited 12 new counties this year. Most were in Georgia, but a couple were in South Carolina.
Flickr says this rusty and crusty neon sign was my most interesting photo from 2020:
Other Favorites:
My Wife and I spent the night in this "fun to be Retro" hotel. See a slideshow video of the experience here.
The next night, my wife and I spent the night in this old hotel which is claimed to be haunted. I talk about our experience in this video slideshow.
Other videos this year include:
A Trip on the Benton Houston Ferry
A tour of the sinkholes at Sharp Springs Park
The Frank Sutton (Sgt. Carter) statue
We found a Mystery Bottle!
In 2020, I took more than 8700 photos. That sounds like a lot, but I average about 20,000 a year.
Most of my publishing-worthy photos are uploaded to Flickr. I now have a total of 10,624 of which about 310 were uploaded in 2020. These photos have been viewed collectively 15,619,855 times. During 2013, Flickr changed what's considered a "view" making more things count than what used to. As a number cruncher, this irritates me, so 1.1 million views in 2020 doesn't mean as much as it used to. (By comparison, in 2012 I had about 500,000 views.)
2010 was the first year of my website, SeeMidTN.com. My webhost's stats show last year I had 20,285 unique visitors who made 34,450 visits viewing a total of 112,828 page views with 490,560 total hits (the stats exclude the 100,000 hits by robots / spiders / crawlers). the website used 14.56 GB of bandwidth. 42.3% of visitors are Mac users which is barely more than the Windows users. 51.7% people browsed with Chrome and 2 people used a browser called Konqueror (I've never heard of it), which is still more than MS Edge. I set up a Facebook account which now has 119 followers and a twitter feed with 77 followers. These were set up as a set-it-and-forget-it tools that re-post my other content, but still has room for growth.
In 2015, I set up a Pinterest page where I re-post my popular Flickr photos. I also have a couple of boards where I pin my favorite photos taken by others, so this is going to skew the data of my original content. In 2020, I also created a board which will re-post all content from my blog. Pinterest tells me in 2020 I had 464,400 impressions, an audience of 313,700, 18,300 engagements and an engaged audience of 11,600. I have (unknown) pins on 16 boards. My most popular pin was the Statue of Justice at the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis. I don't fully understand Pinterest stats but they tell me I now average 23,070 monthly viewers with 31,510 impressions while 737 users are engaged with 1,190 engagements.
The highlight of my website is the daily blog. In mid 2017 my day job started to take too much of my time and I no stopped posting. However, in 2020 with the extra time at home, I added new content again. Blogger.com's count of page views reports I had 387,703 page views spanning 2,695 posts in 11 years at the end of 2020, with 27,000 views in 2020. I wish I could find the page where Google lists the searches people typed in to find me. Mostly, so I could look at the weird ones. once a person typed in "olive pit allergy" to get to my site.
I also have a YouTube channel. Most of my top viewed videos are recordings of my dad's early music groups. However, in 2020 with the extra free time, I made various new content. Some of the videos were based on SeeMidTN content, I also had unrelated content of baseball cards, coins, and mystery box unboxings. All-time, I have 726,037 views with about 38,000 in 2000. A new stat they offer: In 2020, My videos have been watched for 1700 hours, making an all-time total of 6108 hours, or not quite half-way for monetization eligibility. The most watched video of all-time is a recording of "Salvation has Been Brought Down" at the 2011 Diana Singing with 40,000 views. My most-watched video recorded in 2020 was an unboxing of mystery silver coins purchased off ebay, with 2,694 hours
This year, I'm adding info about MariLynn's youtube channel, which blows mine away. Especially since she gets enough views to have ads in her videos. She has a lot of fun with her Tarantulas on it. As of the end of 2020, she has 3435 subscribers. She has 661,200 views for a total of 49,600 hours.
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