If you look at the past few months, you blog stats fluctuate all the time. It's possible that the change of Google's image interface is partly responsible for it. But there's nothing we can do about that.

You can follow the steps in this guide on how to get more views and traffic: http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

I checked and find that if you click on the picture, it appears big and all by itself on a black background and, beside it, the name and the linked address of the blog, meaning that the origin of the picture gets now more attention than before.

My blog is philosophical, but it is full of pictures, because I know that people do not read. Most of my work has always been getting the credits for the pictures, and I think that with Google's new display this will be even more important.

It could also be that Google now gives more top space to recent pictures where before the top pictures were mostly those that had been slowly moving up.

I will clear my cache and let you know if anything changes. Right now, at 9.11 pm in the UK, I have 404 views. I would normally have 1000 plus at this hour. So the shortfall is a bit less than the 70% that it has been for the past several days, but still significant.