Thursday, June 29, 2017

Thursday, 6/29

Of course the picture with the ore dock in it won. Pictures with the ore dock in them ALWAYS win.

If you haven't had the chance to check it out yet, make sure you get down to my favorite park in Marquette—The Rosewood Walkway—and check out the umbrella art display they've put up for Art Week. It's colorful, it's whimsical, and it's just another one of those cool things we do in this very cool city.

Over the weekend Loraine and I went down there to check it out, and I ended up snapping 40 or so pictures. Because no else had yet done it I stuck a few of them up on the “You Know You're From Marquette If” Facebook group, and as of this morning had over 400 likes and 100 shares of the post. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm saying that to lay the groundwork for the reason why pictures with the ore dock in them always win.

I put five pictures up, and along with the 400 likes for the post itself each individual picture had its share of likes, too. Based on everything I've written so far you can obviously guess which one of these had more of those likes than any other--



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The ore dock one is nice; it's not my favorite (that would be the last one, with the sun shining through the orange umbrella), but it's nice. But there just seems to be something about the ore dock that compels people to click “like” whenever I post a picture that has even just a small section of it in the shot, like the one above. Maybe people feel some kind of mystical connection to it; maybe it's just the fact that it is an iconic symbol of Marquette. I don't know the reason why. I just know that if you wanna get a lot of “likes” on a Facebook picture, make sure it has the ore dock in it.

It works every time.

8-)


(ps—if you haven't had the chance to catch the Rosewood display yet, it's scheduled to be up until the end of July. It's definitely worth your time!)


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