OK, so I'm uploading around 3300 photos of my life from the past ten years to Flickr, since several of my friends are huge Flickr fans and use it heavily. I thought I'd like to share what I've been up to photographically with them.

Here's a little context: I have had several periods in my life when I've been an active photographer, both documenting what my friends and I have been up to, and trying to create aesthetically pleasing images. I work as a digital lighter for computer animation, and it's taught me a lot about how light behaves in the real world, so it's been a good hobby.

That said, my account has stats enabled, and I can see what's getting views from random Flickr users. It's pretty easy to guess, right? Mostly, any picture of a young woman is getting 5 to 10x the views of any of the rest. These are dominated by pictures of my ex, but other female friends of mine aren't immune either.

I guess I envision some crowd of guys sitting there hitting "reload" on Flickr's recently uploaded photos page looking for anyone cute to go by.

Anyway, here are some picks out of the huge mass of photos. Not necessarily the best, or the highest technical quality, but just some examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_wilkins/sets/72157626827985928/

Edit: What's driving me nuts is that I can't figure out how to get Aperture NOT to upload both rotated and un-rotated versions of pictures I've rotated in the application, or that have the rotation flag set from the camera. I'm pretty much reduced to manually deleting un-rotated versions that I run across on my photo stream. That's not much fun.

Edit 2: Most of these photos are snapshots, not meant as "art," so please, if you go browsing, view with that in mind.