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What I'm about to provide you is a golden advice. This advice comes after browsing web galleries for countless hours and making 1000s of interactions with other artists and their work for last several years. And yes its takes time but it proves to work.
Maybe you are a photographer who would like to share your work with the community. As I have mentioned here there are several ways of doing it. And there are many good places which you can list your work and get feedback on. But sometimes you may feel like your work is not recognized or you are not getting the expected amount of interactions towards them. There can be several reasons for this.

• Your work is crap and no one want to see it or comment on it (Admit it! only way to overcome this is to work hard and more on developing your skills)
• The web site which you list your work on is not attracting the public (Look at the number of registered members and traffic)
• Web site you upload your work has different purposes. i.e. They let you upload photos but actually run other businesses on it like photography equipment etc.
• You are uploading for the wrong audience. Maybe you are a landscape photographer but your work is listed in a place where many comes to see studio photography.
• Time you spend on the site is considerably limited. You just upload and check back next day if it has any comments. (How easy is that!!)
• You don’t interact with other artists/fans.

Out of the above reasons listed I find the last 2 are more important even though its listed at the end. From my experience more you give more you get. If you want more fans you have to earn them. You cannot just do it by making good photos and uploading it. Accept it. Internet is a vast place. It has many good photographers not only you. So people visit and comment on their likenesses. But you can always go a step further to show that you are concerned about the society as well. Isn’t this the issue we all have?? An American president once said always do something for the country than waiting for the country to do everything for you. The sample principle applies here.

Embilipitiya - Photographed by Priyantha Bandara

My solid advice is to interact as much as you can. Spend some decent amount of time in the site. Look at other peoples work. Don’t just look at them, add to favorites/like/share/recommend to others. Keep comments. Tell what you like about the shot and tell what you don’t like as well. Ask what you want to know about the subject or the technique. Believe me many photographers on the web are very social people. They would love to tell you what they know.

The more you interact positively you will keep more marks on the site. And more people will recognize you and visit your work as well. Some will just come to appreciate you and some will want to know who you are. This is what’s community is. Be a part of it and use it wisely. And after some time you will see that you get more favs on your work and you get more comments as well. It never wrong.

Good luck!!

Sora bora tank - Mahiyanganaya. Photographer Priyantha Bandara.