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I don’t quite understand the way Flickr’s “Explore” works.  It is supposed to be a daily review of the 500 “most interesting” photos on the site.  But what they consider “interesting” is generally self-portraits of pretty girls, and excessively Photoshopped HDR images.  Plus, it seems like your pictures must have received lots of comments and been favorited frequently, which makes it that much more likely that pretty girls make Explore.

Being neither a pretty girl, nor a contact of very many other Flickr users, I get few comments for my pictures, and they are seldom favorited.  Thus, it was surprising to see that another photo of mine, of a toucan skull on display at the Miami Metro Zoo made Explore in early August.  I just don’t get it.