Beauty through Photography: Day 11

As of this morning, my Flickr photostream had 1096 items in it. 247 of those were taken in the last ten days. I knew that I had to do something to organize my content a little better (because it's baby steps with me). So, this is what I did today:

I deleted the following sets (but kept the pictures in the photostream):

DC Monuments

Boulder

California Abstracts

South Beach Abstracts

Arizona

DC Minerals

I chose to do so because:

1) Many of these pictures were over three years old. I can't enter them into contests.

2) Some were no longer my best work. My (now) discerning eye picked up flaws including boring composition, harsh lighting or shadows, lack of definition, and color issues.

I also deleted some individual pictures within a set. That reduced the number of pictures in my photostream to 1035. I can live with that, especially because I have all of the originals - two copies. Then, I had to go back and review my blog. I had posted some of the deleted pictures, and the links were broken. I fixed those.

I'm hoping this will make a difference, as I tend to direct people to my Flickr sets page, and not my photostream. This way, people can pick and choose the content of the greatest interest. Now that I've pruned it somewhat, I'm hoping it will be a little easier.

I also made one more enhancement - I put up a new top photos set, which I will modify periodically. I selected 28 photos (30 seemed like too much, and I struggled to narrow it down to 25), and put them together. While they don't match my most popular, I love them and I want people to see them. I think this is the best way to accomplish that. Here are the thumbnails of my top 28: