One of the photos in my flickr photostream that seems to get traffic every day is a picture of the bad-ass mouse-trap racer that I built for my wife’s after-school engineering class. It got picked up by the Make (Magazine) Blog and turns up in search results all the time. Every time I glance at my flickr stats, this photo has picked up a couple more views.
Well, I noticed today that it recently crossed over 5,000 views. Wow… one single photo of mine viewed five thousand times. A similar picture of my second-generation mousetrap racer has garnered over 3,000 views so far. That’s a lot of views for something I pieced together in the workshop. I still hope that one day one (or more) of my art photos will be pulling in that kind of traffic. Perhaps what I need to do is to make some arty photographs of a bad-ass mouse-trap racer. Hmmm…