Uploads from kevin dooley, tagged stormy

Impending storm over Chicago

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:50:22 -0700

A summer storm approaches downtown Chicago, as seen with Diana+ mini from Navy Pier.

In the clouds - EXPLORE rules changed

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:15:56 -0700

There's nothing quite like the cloud formations one can see from an airplane window.

Note: Has the EXPLORE algorithm been changed? I had a total of 517 pics that had been in Explore, and 50 were currently in. I had been at the number 50 since Oct 2010. Since then I've had many popular shots, but never got off of 50 permanent in Explore. With this photo getting in, now I have 51... Have the limits for how many permanent photos you can have in Explore changed? Could just be a coincidence, maybe Explore competition has gotten even tighter, but as a statistician I take note of these things...

UPDATE: Thanks for all the comments and faves... believe me, I gasped when I saw this, I knew it was an epic photo opp. Odd thing is I had literally just jolted out of a nap, and there it was.

I can tell from the comments that my bit about Explore may need more explanation. No gang, I don't care about getting in Explore except so much as it can get you a lot more exposure... no my interest is a statistician. To me, Explore is based on a mathematical algorithm, and all I can do is observe and guess what's in the black box. As I've mentioned earlier, one can start with Flickr's patents, which link to its "interestingness" calculation is made. I talk about the Explore algorithm here.

In sum, interestingness = f(views, comments, faves, notes, galleries, and groups), and
Explore ranking = f(interestingness, other stuff)

The question has been, what's that "other stuff"? One variable I think is the number of photos you currently (or "permanently") you have in Explore. My hypothesis is that there has been a limit of 50 photos you can have in Explore. And with this observation, I now hypothesize that limit has been raised.

Oh Explore gnomes, show me a sign, throw me a bone, am I right?

UPDATE:
As it turns out I am probably wrong in my reasoning above. A close contact who is in Explore all the time told me he thought Explore went to "sampling" users--that you can only get into Explore for a certain amount of time during each year. This makes sense, explains the evidence, and is actually a more elegant and fair solution.

A change of scenery

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:33:32 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

See you all in a few weeks! (My first #1 in Explore!)

Weather

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:30:17 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Aren't weather systems the coolest? (Explore)

Continuing our "B-side" tour, this shot is from the same flight that yielded two of my most popular cloud shots, DMZ and Teshub.

Light catchers we

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:17:08 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Photography is nothing more, and nothing less, than light catching. We position ourselves somewhere unique in space-time to capture light with some particular equipment, and then we use other equipment to further process and distribute that light so we and others can see it. At that level distinctions between digital and analog, and between processed and non-processed, become moot. It's all just light catching, and we all do it a little differently. (Explore)

Glory

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:55:23 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Dear friends, I am off to Europe for both play and work. I might stop by late at night and leave a fave or two, but otherwise I'll catch up with you in a couple of weeks.

South Mountain afternoon

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:30:33 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona.
(Explore)

There's Flickr, and then there's Mesa #1

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:13:16 -0800

kevin dooley posted a photo:

This is a reality series. Looking at Flickr, especially Good Flickr, you get an altered sense of reality. Most of life however is not spent surrounded by pretty scenary or models.

These pictures were taken while driving west on Broadway Ave in Mesa, Arizona. Mesa is the 3rd largest town in Arizona (447,000), slightly behind Tucson (519,000) and about 1/3rd the size of Phoenix (1.5M). It is the 38th largest city in the U.S., bigger than Kansas City, Cleveland, Miami, Oakland, Tulsa, Honolulu, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Cincinatti, Pittsburgh, Colorado Springs. It was founded by Mormons and that still makes up its core.

I set up the tripod on the passenger side and just blindly pushed the release button as I drove. It sounds dangerous, but I swear I never looked at the camera!

It's not pretty, but it's Mesa.

Operation desert storm

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:29:36 -0800

kevin dooley posted a photo:

We were about to break an all-time low for rainfall this year, and then it rained and rained this weekend. Until you live in a desert, you don't know how special it is to smell the rain, because it happens so little. I was the only wacky person out in shorts and sandals, but I thought it felt great.

The DMZ

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:27:41 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Looks like two cloud systems wanna rumble.

DMZ between Arizona and New Mexico.

#460 in Explore, 8.13.2007

Sky song

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:10:50 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

A sky song care of the Tonto National Forest.
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Blessings to all those in Hurricane Sandy's path. I made a gallery of some of the compelling shots I found on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/galleries/72157631915576...

Stormy memories

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:51:10 -0800

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Picture from my mobile phone, filter from NinianLif (http://www.flickr.com/photos/beapierce/sets/72157601574009156/).

Arizona sky

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:45:53 -0800

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Looking east from Meteor Crater, AZ