I used to be a royalist myself, till recently.

But were you narrow?

The mystery of why some pictures are particularly popular deepens. This reasonable but not specially good or interesting picture is a runaway success on Flickr, and it isn't even the best shot in its batch. Does its "Royal" title and subject explain this?

I've long been suspicious of the automatic(?) favouriting that my pictures get, sometimes within seconds of their being uploaded, so yesterday, as an experiment, I uploaded a completely blank white "picture" without a title or anything else, and not in any albums or groups, and so far it's had over 100 views and - yes - it's been favourited twice.

It depends which side you were looking from.

From the west (towpath) side. On that stretch of Canal, there's no public access to the other side.

I was referring to my own narrowness being dependent on which side you viewed it from.

I think this is a good picture, though I'd prefer it if it had been taken in 1953.

You could try asking the people who faved your blank picture why they like it so much.
Perhaps they think it's a shot of the emperor's new clothes.

I don't comment on others' narrowness or width, as I wouldn't want them to on mine. At best, doing so leaves one exposed to a broadside.