My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr The photo above represents my 30,000th photograph published to Flickr. It’s a milestone and part of my continuing goal to publish 1,000,000 photos to Flickr before I die. This photograph is from one of my favorite shoots. A shoot I did with my wife and children a ways back in this storm drain in Big Tujunga Canyon. - Thomas Hawk

@thomasHawk didn't you say you wouldn't use flickr after they were gits once long ago? - Prolific Programmer from IM

Congratulations, Thomas! By the way, that shot would be perfect in my Vanishing Points group... I'll add an invite to it on Flickr. - Kevin Trotman

Hasan, I did stop using Flickr for a while over some some censorship issues a while back. As you know I feel pretty strongly about censorship. I changed my mind though and couldn't really stay away. - Thomas Hawk

"My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr" way to go @thomasHawk. I remember reading yr 10^6 & thinking thats ambitious. Now the Q. In the back of my mind I've been thinking about "how do you a) backup online against flickr takedowns? b) manage & curate the images as times goes on: cost, time etc? - Peter Renshaw

Well mostly I back up my photos by using drobos as primary storage. I also keep another copy of my finished photos on hard drives off location. I upload pretty much the same photos to Flickr and Zooomr. So I've got two copies. Additionally, almost all of my flickr photos are fed into clustershot where they can be marketed for stock photography. I always upload original sized photographs to all sites. So I've got several offline and online copies of every photo. Storage is expensive for sure. But it's part of it and it only gets cheaper over time. In terms of managing and curating my images I probably need to do an update on this for my blog, but each day's photos go into a folder. From there those folders are processed as I have time. Probably 10 to 15% of my images are processed. I'm currently working on processing from Feb. 2009 and am pretty backed up in that dept. I figure later on in life when I don't have a day job and four young kids at home I'll have more time to devote to processing. Still, I probably process about 500 photos a week at present. I need to step up the pace. - Thomas Hawk

Veery nice one Thomas. Good job. :) - BraGiu

Congratulations, Thomas! 970K to go! - Alexander Arsky

Cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations, nice one! - ilya

Congratulations. Doesn't seem like that long since 20000. - James Myatt

Congrats Thomas! - Simon Wicks

Great shot!!! - Prakash

30,000, wow! Made me look. I'm only just past 20,000. Had no idea where I was. Need to pay attention to those landmarks. This is a wonderful shot, but then so many of yours are. You live to witness and share beauty. - Patricia F. Anderson

Awesome! - David Cook from fftogo

Congratulations, and a beautiful picture. Thanks again for sharing - Rob Kramer

That's a great photo, good work. - Patrick

good stuff - imran

500 a week! I feel slug-like. I'm so glad you do what you do with your talent at photography. Thank you for your inspiration and dedication to your craft, 4 children and spouse and a full time career aside. Very thought provoking and challenging. Congratulations on your milestone. - Matt Penning

Congrats on reaching 30,000! Your artwork is always interesting. - John (bird whisperer)

congrats Thomas! I always look at flickr each day to see what you have uploaded :) - Heather

Congrats!! - Arijit Das