My famous photos (well, sort of)

As some of you may recall, there was an excursion to the western desert this Spring (it is in the March archive for anyone interested). I think that trip was really my digital photo debut. I finally got the difference between the old click, wait, cross fingers, develop and the new click, look, delete, click, look, keep.

Two of the photos I posted were named "cactus bird1" and "cactus bird two". For some reason, those two guys continue to come up #1 and #2 on a Google Images search when "cactus" and "bird" are the query words. I have an embedded tracking tool that tells me that this query drives more traffic to this blog than anything else. I wonder why these two are at the top of the Google list. To be fair, "Stone House" also gets a crowd, but nothing like the birds. None of the other photos have ever been hit.

I have a friend who lives quite nicely by exporting beads from Asia and selling them from his website here in the USA. Regarding the "cactus bird" phenomenon he says "I would give my left bead to come up #1 in a Google search." To which I really have no response other than saying that I am vicariously enjoying my photos' 15 minutes of fame.

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This quote is completely non sequitur, but it struck a chord with me. As I have said in the past, it is my blog and other things may creep in.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire

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Also, a couple friends have asked how to start their own blog. The link is now to the right, have fun.


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