I hadn’t checked Scout in a while, so I did on Monday. The reason that B. makes such a big deal out of it is because he is in some sort of competition with S.. Why? It’s a guy thing, I guess, though I don’t think S. is aware that there’s a competition. Anyway, there is one, so I check once in a while to see who’s winning (B. is–39 to 52). Frankly, I’m a little surprised that I’m also at 52 now; if you choose a popular subject, submit to a bunch of groups to get different “awards” (not comment whore groups) from different people, and don’t totally fuck up the technical aspect, it’s not all that difficult to get in somewhere below 300. I’m not surprised to see that some of my butterflies and flowers have made it in–pretty much everyone likes butterflies and flowers–and not too surprised at dragonflies, either, or even the cat, I guess. Critters…well, it’s kind of hard not to like a nearly newborn fawn, curled up in a little ball, thinking no one sees him. Toad…okay, he does look pretty cool. I’m happiest, though, when one of the “less popular” subjects makes it in, like a spider, or a bug, or something like that, specifically because they aren’t popular subjects, and indeed, are subjects that make some people’s skin crawl. If it’s something most people like, it’ll be easier to get people to look at it. If it’s something most people don’t like, then it must be interesting…or they wouldn’t look. L. is busy, and since I had nothing better to do while sitting here, drinking coffee and ignoring what I’m supposed to be doing, I broke down the percentages for my Explore photo subjects.
28.8% butterflies/moths
19.2% dragonflies/damselflies
17.3% other insects
15.3% non-insect/spider critters
9.6% flowers
7.6% spiders
(adds up to only 97.8% because I rounded percentages off to tenths.)
I’m pretty pleased with that, especially the 7.6% spiders. Not a lot of non-arachnologists like spiders, and some people just plain have an irrational fear of them, but enough people thought three little jumpers and one pretty orb weaver were interesting. Cool.
Anyway, S. is cheating. Of the 39 shots he’s had in Explore, 43.6% (17) are of…his cat. She’s a pretty cat, but nearly half? No cat is that interesting. Come on…find a new subject and quit taking advantage of the fact that cat people are batshit insane! 😉
Well, I look like something the cat dragged in, but time to set up a backdrop, don a tiara and see whether Miss Valerie is going to co-operate or fly up and land on the ceiling!
