Christopher Michel ✓

@chrismichel · High Latitudes · joined 20 May 2007

Artist in Residence at the National Academies. Usually found with a camera, a dog, or a boarding pass.

27 562Followers

1 845Following

2 072Posts total

221.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 656this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.01%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.95%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 656	2 578	0.64×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.01%	7.77%	0.77×
Engagement rate	0.95%	1.47%	0.64×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.3K30 Aug

1.3K31 Aug

1.7K1 Sep

215.1K3 Sep

2.1K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.95%30 Aug

0.67%31 Aug

0.97%1 Sep

3.12%3 Sep

0.67%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes87.7%6 273 in total

Reposts5.4%388 in total

Replies1.3%95 in total

Quotes0.1%10 in total

Bookmarks5.4%383 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

I’ve known @sarahcuda for a long time, across a few chapters of both our lives. She’s a journalist, author, entrepreneur, and lifelong person of books. These days, she and author Paul Bradley Carr run two bookstores, one in San Francisco and one in Palm Springs, while helping ht 2.1K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 This photo was an accident. I was nearing 70,000 feet in a U 2, fumbling with the settings on a GoPro I had mounted in the cockpit. Somewhere in the process, I pressed the shutter. I’m glad I did. At that altitude, the atmosphere is mostly below you. The sky overhead has gone 215.1K views · 6.2K likes · 383 reposts · 95 replies 03 Sep 2026 Happy 91st birthday to the extraordinary @SylviaEarle! Six decades exploring the ocean, descending into places few humans have ever seen, and fighting like hell for the living planet she loves. What a privilege to make her portrait. https://t.co/6MUCF3IGWG @NatGeo https://t.co 1.7K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Burning Man is happening again this week. A city rises from the Nevada dust. For a few strange days, the improbable becomes real. Then almost everything disappears. A few photographs from my years on the playa: View my photos at: https://t.co/rLOO07FGdk 1.3K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” - Anaïs Nin. Santa Fe (2018). #Leica M10 https://t.co/8s87FbPqE5 1.3K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026