Weekly Gallery Picks. A Slight Change?

[ClaremontPhoto]

We usually save our favorites during the week and then post them on Monday like:

Photographer's Name | Photo Title | Hyperlink to Photo

(Although we all vary in the layout somewhat)

We gets lots of traffic but curiously little participation. Sometimes I seem to be talking to myself!

How about moving towards:

Photographer's Name | Photo Title | Hyperlink to Photo
One line comment

Would that make it better, or not?

[rogue_designer]

I think a comment is nice, but by no means a requirement.

[ClaremontPhoto]

Yes, I had thought that. Sorry not to have written it.

The comment could be a copy and paste from what you may have left under the photo in the Gallery.

Or it could describe the photo a little so that if 'the woman with a big hat sitting on the park bench' is mentioned five times we don't need to click on obscure links five times.

[Marc-A.]

That's an idea. Another idea is to limit the number of picks. I mean, at the beginning, it was 5, then some posters started to pick 10, others more than 10, some only 1 or 2 ... picking 5 seems good to me, it means you made an effort to carefully choose pictures that really moved you. It's hard to pick only 5 pictures, but if it wasn't it wouldn't mean anything ...

[ClaremontPhoto]

Yes, I waver between three and five picks myself. I generally find up to ten in my favorites and remove all but the very best.

Recently I have also been putting them up to the thread one at a time over a few days to continually bump the thread back onto the front page.