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We've got a "post your Flickr" thread, but I was wondering if any forumites use social media to promote their work these days?

(Yes, I know I ranted a little bit about it in the RIAT thread the other day - but social media when used the right way can be a powerful tool and a great asset, and I'm always interested in seeing other member's work about the place)

I'll kick things off, both are in my signature, so hardly a secret - but I put most of my aviation photography (interspersed with other things) on Instagram when not on here:

https://www.instagram.com/tomd.jones/?hl=en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


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Only see one

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Can I cheekily advertise the Threshold ones here?



Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thresholdaero" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/threshold.aero" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thresholdaero" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


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Hey guys. Decided to hop on instagram for a place to put my shots. I know they’re not the greatest shots and that some are probably borderline awful.. I just do it as a hobby for the mean time till i get a better camera and learn some new bits and bobs. Also to give myself a bit of pride. We’ve all got to start somewhere i guess. Some feedback and views would be really appreciated. Thanks.

https://www.instagram.com/joesviewfinder

AH.
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Got some photos here..........

https://www.instagram.com/tonybradley5043/

.......varying quality, but happy with them.


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I'm only on Instagram now as Facebook and Twitter don't bring out best in me!

http://www.instagram.com/paulsmithaviationphoto

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"You really are an oafish philistine at times!"

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My Twitter, with a free book to read link posted on July the 1st.Click on the link and use the slider to view the chapters... :smile:
https://twitter.com/johnbilcliffe
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You can find me on Instagram and Twitter:



My shots on Flickr and Airliners

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instagram.com/garfotography - among the aviation and motorsport you'll find crazy dog pictures like.......



Garf's website and Flickr Photostream

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Have followed a few listed.

Twitter tends to be: @Bookof Aviation
https://twitter.com/BookofAviation

Instagram
Not just aviation. Lots of buildings, landscapes, sunsets, chemtrails, etc.
https://www.instagram.com/normanstagramm/

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Airwolfhound wrote:
Thu 26 Sep 2019, 11:57 am
I can be found on :-

http://www.instagram.com/airwolfhound" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks :-)
Having a look at Tim’s Instagram posts and came across the sparrow hawk and starling photo. Reminded me of a sparrow hawk catching a collared dove in my back garden about a month ago, it crushed the doves chest and bled it to death - my pictures are very gory so I won’t post them. Interestingly a pair of magpies tried to scare the sparrow hawk off its kill but it stood its ground.
Our garden is a regular route for this hawk and I have seen 4 kills over the years. I took the bird feeders down as it used to sit in the tree overlooking the feeders at the other side of the garden

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If you're into street photography, my insta is: https://www.instagram.com/joemartincurry/

Not quite Henri Cartier-Bresson, but working on it!

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Anyone here using Mastodon yet, either instead of Twitter or as well as? Also is anyone as fed up with Instagram as me, the 'new' way of displaying stuff is just rubbish!

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Not made the jump yet. It’s been quite interesting in 2022 just how fragile social media has felt recently.

Instagram - it was a decent, modern photo-sharing app. But after Facebook/Meta bought it, it’s now desperately trying to copy TikTok by really pushing short form video content hard, but no one wanted nor asked for it, and everyone is deserting that platform because people can’t really see what their friends are up to (and if all you get from IG is the same content/jokes/funny videos as TikTok, you might as well just get a TikTok account). In the past 18 months Facebook/Meta have absolutely killed that place.

Facebook - long been the domain of parents and grandparents - from an aviation PoV there are some great sub-groups you can join, but some others have routine falling-outs, and disgruntled members go and start their own copy-paste groups, so you have numerous “Mach Loop” or “Coningsby” groups and it’s tough to keep track of which is which, and who’s who. To say nothing of those groups being plagued by a really outdated layout where everything is all mashed together in one long timeline with little effective organisation of the content and irrelevant or repeat questions (like people asking “where to go” endlessly in the Loop groups) which take up so much space, or people sharing stuff like “not [this group’s focus] but…”. The good places on FB are really great, but there’s so much dross to wade through, and it’s such a horrible layout of information for my tastes.

Flickr - great photo-sharing place, but I decided to vote with my feet and I don’t support that place financially. I’ve got no problem paying for stuff like that, but after they promised not to charge a subscription, and then went ahead and did it anyway, nah. I respect others decisions, but that ain’t for me.

Twitter - amazing place for real-time up to date information - not so much social anymore - you’re strapped in for the ride, basically, but the very divorced man-child is a bit of a plank to be honest, and god knows what’s going to happen with that place now he’s bought it and keeps farting out half-baked stupid ideas about what to do with the place. Plus it’s lost its edge a bit in my experience - I’m still seeing World Cup content on my timeline.

TikTok - that’s almost purely “performance media” rather than “social media”. Its algorithms show you stuff it thinks you’ll like, but it’s not designed to be a community/social. Plus it’s all video content in portrait format - a bit of a ballache for sharing aviation photography.

Mastodon - I haven’t even tried that one yet.

So d’y’know what, through all of it - I find myself increasingly drawn back to forums again. Decent communities of actual people rather than faceless usernames you’ll never meet, moderated (however imperfectly) by human beings in accordance by a clear and constant set of reasonable rules, and paid for - so that we aren’t bound by corporate pressure to do the latest “in” thing, or drive adverts down your gullet. The format may be a bit old hat, but it works, and I prefer the sub-fora/board organisation - it’s much more appealing to me than endless scrolling through one long timeline. If I’m not interested in Duxford airshows, but I want to discuss/look at what people say about RIAT, or Cosford, or Cosby, then I can jump in and out of them and avoid the former with relative ease.

But then you do get stupid lobcocks like me writing in a thousand words what could be said in a hundred, so pros and cons, I guess.

Three comments from friends and pals who I know, even vaguely, on forum threads, are inherently more valuable to me than 100 likes from Instagram bots.

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Vero is a fairly new (well it's old, but still new) platform that basically do everything Instagram did originally - only without the silly filters.

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Hi,

My Instagram :)


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Here's my Facebook page, plenty of pictures and a bit of aviation history - https://www.facebook.com/fredrikedvardsenphoto/

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I'm currently on a number of social media platforms and post regular updates.

https://www.instagram.com/nick_jennings_photography/
https://www.facebook.com/njennings.photography
https://twitter.com/darealnjennings

My Flickr has the most content at the highest quality, but is a bit behind due to the amount of content I need to get through!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj1972/


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Here is my instagram
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