A while back I wrote about what I like and don’t like about Facebook photography user groups. A couple of months ago someone on one of these group suggested that I take a look at www.youpic.com. In youpic you get a page of your own (this link will take you to mine)and then you build up your portfolio. Youpic is based on the tweeter: tweet and retweet model. You post an image and people can look at it, they can like it, and they can repic it onto their page. And if they like your stuff a lot they can follow you. So once again, we have the sorry theme that popularity breeds success. Oh and you get awards as you build you popularity – boring – since it would appear that it is only a matter of time as long as you keep posting.

That said, the number of people looking at your images is huge. And part of that relates to the home page approach and part of that relates to the fact that as people discover you they go through your portfolio. What I do is look at who likes my images and then explore their images. I like what I like and if I find that I consistently like them, I follow that person. And in this was I discover lots and lots of images that I love. Fill your day with beautiful images. Life can be beautiful!

There is a place to comment, but I don’t find it to be all that active and my biggest problem with youpic is that I have not figured out either how to edit a mistake once posted or even how to remove an image. We should all complain about that as soon as we figure out how.

But as I said, if your goal is to add photographic beauty to your life, this site is for you. I have discovered an important corollary statistic. 80% of the people whose photographs I admire on youpic have posted photographs of their cats! This speaks to a deep inner beauty and sensitivity.