SLA 23 Things Week 4 Photos & Images – Part 1
Posted on November 7, 2008
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My photosets on Flickr
I’ve been using Flickr for some time – I’m not quite sure when I created my account and starting uploading photos. I have a Pro account because I wanted to create multiple sets and not be limited by maximum allowable uploads in any given month. I have both private and public sets. I figured most of my family wouldn’t want their photos on the Internet, so I’ve protected those only. I’ve geotagged most of my photos.
Things I’ve done during this week’s exercises:
- Explored Flickr more fully – created several collections (The Dogs, Travel, Family, Lost Pets) in my account
- Joined several Flickr groups (Rescued Boxers, Funny BoXers, That’s my Boxer)
- Added a photo to the group Photos of Fairchild at the invitation from the group administrator, joined the group and added a few more photos
- Explored some of the photos from other Flickr members on my maps (created by my geotagged photos)
- Blogged a photo from my Flickr photostream to Freckle & Ceilidh’s Blog (a blog devoted to our boxer and pug)
- Explored very briefly some of the other photo-sharing sites: Fotki, Photbucket, Picasa (using my Google ID), Share on Ovi, Smugmug, Shutterfly, Webshots
- Used some visual search tools: Pixsy, Retriever, Riya, Xcavator
One of my favourite sites not mentioned in this week’s SLA 23 Things is Earthshots, a photo site with amazing photos of the world we live in. I get an email from this site every morning and it’s a great way to start my day on the computer.
Things I still plan to do, at a later date:
- Figure out how to subscribe to my “recent comments” feed on Flickr.
- Continue with the remainder of Week 4 tasks.
I have a much bigger project, barely started – retrospectively scanning of my slides and negatives, and old photos from family albums. This project will take years, I’m sure.
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