As photographers and artists, we often strive to improve our skills and seek the opinions of others regarding our work. Many art and photography sites set aside a place for this purpose, and The Lens Flare now has a comments and criticism forum for you to use (which is often referred to as C&C).
When using […]

I’m going to start a new series of blog posts that bring to your attention a few of the pictures on The Lens Flare.  Each message will have a theme and will include pictures that I thought were interesting in some way.  This might be for their artistic value, but it might also be because […]

I just took a look at the stats and noticed that there have been 1,032,978 visits since I started tracking visitor statistics in the middle of 2006. A million visits is a big milestone for TLF, and I wanted to thank all of you for visiting the website.
Here’s to the next million visits!
Brian

One of the best ways to help improve the number of visitors to your pictures is by simply including in your description where you took the picture, and even better, including this in your title.
Let’s say you’re uploading a picture of a waterfall.  There are millions of pages about waterfalls on the Internet, and you’re […]

I moved the website to a new server today.  I’ve tested the features, but there’s always a chance that I missed something.  Please let me know if you encounter any errors or problems.  The new server should be as fast, if not faster than the old one, but I won’t know for sure until we’re […]