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And what's up everyone? Welcome back to the Daily P-Fav. This is episode 102. For Wednesday, July 18th, 2018, it's now 9.51 pm here on the East Coast.
And I am still recovering from yesterday's almost virtual viral Facebook post that happened after I posted the picture of the police officer and the little boy playing together on the playground. It was literally all night long overnight this morning and all day, a bombardment of Facebook likes and shares and the same thing on Twitter with bunches of retweets. And the bottom line is at the end of the day, it is absolutely by far the most popular picture that I've ever posted to social media. I've never seen that type of interaction with one of my photos before.
And I'm very appreciative for that to everybody that took an interest in in photograph and decided to like it, share it or comment on it. I know a bunch of people tagged. Like I said last night, CNN, Fox, all the local media outlets and then they started tagging individual reporters on it. And so this evening, I got contacted by WPXI and they asked for permission to not only post it on their Facebook page, but also to put it on their website as well and possibly use it on the air this evening.
So I'm waiting for the 11 o'clock news to see if they do a short little blurb on that. Now, the one thing I could kick myself in the butt for, I somehow missed a phone call from a KDKA reporter probably around 930 this evening. All of a sudden my iPhone dings that I have a miss call and a voicemail from somewhere around 3 30 this afternoon, which it just my phone doesn't show that I had a phone call at 3 30. And I listened to the voicemail and it turns out it's a KDKA reporter contacting me.
She wanted to jump in their camera truck and come out and interview me for tonight's news. And so I tried to hurry back or hurry up and call her back. The station put me in touch with her voicemail. I did leave her a voicemail and I've not heard back from her yet.
So I don't know if I'm going to hear back. I kind of hope they they do because I think that would be awesome for them to come out and do a story on this photograph because I do have a lot to say about it. There was, like I said, it's to me one of the most powerful images that tell a story through photojournalism that I think I've ever taken. And the analytics and the engagement from social media kind of proves that and supports that theory of mine.
The other thing that I just sit here and shake my head about as I have been trying to read all of the comments that people have not only made on my post, but on the WPXI post or when people share it on their page trying to read what those people are saying about it because I do have an interest in it. I want that feedback to see what people are saying about it. And again, I just sit here and shake my head sometimes when I read some of the comments as to why people don't see what I see or they don't see the story that I was trying to tell. They see something completely different.
And that sometimes boggles my mind. And it's again, it's a silent reminder to all of us that, again, we live in a world where people have not only different opinions, but different outlooks and different views on things. You know, it's kind of like, you know, look, this is a picture of a police officer playing with a kid on a playground period. You don't have to talk about the condition of the playground.
You don't have to talk about the condition of the ground. You don't have to talk about the color of either the officer or the child. You just have to see that this is a police officer doing community police work and it wasn't even his community. This was a North for Sales police officer and this council meeting was in East Pittsburgh.
So, you know, there's that kind of a realization and statement right there just to show you again how passionate some of our police officers are about their job and, you know, it doesn't matter what community they go into. They, you know, I'm not going to get into that debate. But anyways, nonetheless, you know, it's frustrating, you know, as an artist and as a photographer and as a creative to, you know, when people don't see the same thing, you know, you do. And it's, to me, it's the equivalent of holding up a red apple and someone saying that's not a red apple.
That's a banana. You know what I mean? It's kind of crazy to me where, you know, someone sees a beautiful picture of a cop playing with a kid and they see the negative in that picture. You know, it's like saying, look at this beautiful picture of a sunrise and someone saying, oh, that's not really a sunrise.
That's just the start of another, you know, crappy day in Pittsburgh, you know, because again, I've gotten those comments before. So, I mean, I guess again, that's just the world we live in. And that's, I think that's why we have the difficulties that we have in our society and in our culture and in our country is that you're just never going to get people to agree 100% on an issue. There's always going to be different outlooks and visions on topics and politics and policies or incidents that happen or, you know, different cultures or different religions or whatever it is.
And it's sad. It really is. It, to me, it's really sad when you can, you know, take a picture of something beautiful that warms your soul or warms your heart and it doesn't do the same thing for everyone because that's honestly what my, you know, what my goal is, is to stir emotions through my pictures. And I guess at the end of the day, I shouldn't complain because whether it's a good emotion or a bad emotion, they're still looking at my picture and it's still causing some kind of an emotion.
So, I guess I should just be thankful and shut up and be happy for that, which, you know, again, at the end of the day I am. So, I'm going to leave it right there for this evening, 412-701-4323. Again, thank you to everybody that has shared this picture, liked the picture, commented on the picture, retweeted the picture. It really truly does mean a lot to me.
And I did talk to the police officer today because I went to their police station to get their email address and send them a copy of it because they did share it on their department Facebook page and the officer was blown away by all the support and, again, he's not one of those attention-seeking type people, but he does appreciate all of your support as well. Paul FallivaleoPodcast.com, thanks for listening.