What does a single day of Flickr uploads look like as real photos?

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But, these are not from the same person.

We do probably take many, many more photos in digital (I know I do) but I don't know if the quantity for professionals has changed.

They probably took lots and lots of shots and fliped through them to find the right expression/moment even when they used film.

The main expense for professionals has probably shifted from film stock to camera body/lens.

Q: "What's the difference between an amateur photographer and a pro photographer?"

A: "An amateur shows you every shot they took."

Makes one wonder what it'd look like if it was based on facebook instead.

If the artist was precise (if you look at the coverage of the exhibition you will find numbers ranging from 1 to 3M, both of which are significantly too low [0]), it would take about 50 more rooms (there are about 5M new photos uploaded to Flickr/day vs. 250M to FB [1]).

[0] Rough extrapolation based on http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers... and a 20% growth rate http://www.kullin.net/2010/09/flickr-5-billion-photos/

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-many-photos-are-uploaded-to-Faceboo...

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