50 Million Photo Views Milestone, Unlocked.

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Another milestone reached, another step closer to the next.

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I am very proud to announce that I have reached 50 million views on Pexels!
Pexels is one of the free-to-use images libraries online, where I had selected to put some of my images. User friendliness. some tips that I had received, as well as some really nice content creators using my Cretan spots were the reasons why I kept maintaining my account and uploading images.

I think that it is about 5 years now since I started seeing this more seriously. After the AI-generated images I have not received any tips, but I do get my photos downloaded often and even though I do not upload new content, there is still an increase to my views there.

Users from around the world have used images or videos for their videos, blogs etc. I had even found a photo of mine at one local online newspaper.

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In total I have approximately 488K downloads, my total uploaded images are 1000 and my most popular content is this wave..

So, what is next?

AI is moving forward so quickly, that we already can create almost anything that we can imagine. Also, any images we may put online, especially the ones that will have no commercial rights, could potentially be used to train AI models so that they can make better, more appealing, perhaps even -perfect- photos.

What's in it for us?

How should we proceed to create?

I have never thought of stopping my hobby, on the contrary, I try to improve my knowledge and skills.
When I look at some older photos, I keep finding flaws.

I hope I can make better ones in the future, but I am proud of the process that brought me at this point.

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If I may give an advice to you, it is to do things that you love and try to get better, always depending on your needs and goals for the future.

It is always important to look ahead and to keep going forward.

If I may add something here, hive blockchain and the community has been an amazing motivation for me to keep moving.

What other motivations have you had in your lives?

Let me know!

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Kudos to you! 50M is quite an impressive feat!

and concerning your prompt: back in the day, I used to be quite active on deviantart... they had an editorial showcase called "daily deviation" getting one of those felt like a huge acknowledgement.

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Hi! This is great to know, I dont think I ever visited that site!

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it used to be quite popular for photography back in the day, like 1 or 2 decades ago... nowadays i think it's mostly soft erotica and anime fan-art... lol

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Wow!
Do you still photograph? Did you ever do this professionally? (I mean to earn a living?)

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I tried to make some money on the side with photography, but it never really took off... it was mostly just a passionate hobby of mine.

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It really needs full time devotion to be able to monetize and make a living out of it.
A very talented friend of mine has amazing gear, is really great and is constantly learning, still he is working at another job and only shoots for his own pleasure now..
Your shots were amazing btw - I now understand you very targeted comments to my shots.
Thank you!

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Well thank you, too! "Amazing" is a very flattering word!! 😊

I do believe, sometimes it's best to keep the things we love doing, to be done only voluntarily. As soon as things turn into an occupation it can really mess with the having-fun side of it.

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Congrats, that's a great achievement, it must mean something right? 😊 For sure not bad photos

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Well I am not so happy with some of the photos, but I am happy that so many people have seen the place I live in and that my cats are famous, hahhahha!

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we always seek for perfection but sometimes it's not necessary 😄

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It's a joy that so many people have liked your beautiful pictures and it's a fact that now we can create everything with the help of artificial intelligence, so people are no longer watching real content.

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It is true, but for me, i d rather see a not so perfect photo of a real flower than a perfect AI flower.
btw, I always enjoy your flower posts :)

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If your pictures are not beautiful, so many people wouldn’t have liked it
Keep up the good work!

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Wooow
It’s great to see that you are doing what you love…Great Mile stone..keep it up💪
More to go

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