Originally posted by BruceBanner Nice shot. I often feel the same way, like... why are you picking this pic when right next to it is a far better one
I think 'David Kracht' is a flickr admin, I have had him added for a few years and he does upload a new pic every now and then, when my pics hit Explore (from my end) it's him that does the invite (some of the time).
David Kracht has written a script that detects when Flickr adds an image to Explore, but as far as I know he isn't employed by Flickr and doesn't actually choose the images that are selected. He just has a group called "In Explore" that he tries to invite all explored images to be a part of.
The Flickr Explore process is pretty mysterious and seems to have something to do with number of likes versus comments, not being in too many groups, and having images that are big enough.