Digital Photosharing

I have been using Flickr for a while now and have my own account. At first I did not like it because flickr seemed to be full of peoples holiday snaps (it is!) unedited and all apparently just uploaded en masse with no thought for the quality of the content. However I now realise that this doesn’t matter, in fact it’s a great way to store your photos for easy retrieval whenever you want. I personally would prefer to at least get rid of the ones with my thumb in the way etc.

I have since discovered that there are groups which you can join (and create your own) which seem to be monitored and edited and thus are of a far higher standard than most of the images you find. When you add your images to other peoples groups they may start commenting on your work which leads to some quite interesting dialogue (note that comments are not always positive!).

You can upload 100mb of images per month with a free account and group your pictures into up to three sets. For a small annual fee you can increase this and really start to customise your account. Due to the ability to add people as contacts, set people as friends, family etc and restrict access to certain pictures you could use flickr as as social networking site similar to facebook. For me though. I just like the ease of access to my photos.

The following is someone elses photo which I have hopefully properly referenced in accordance with Creative Commons.

Betws-y-Coed Footbridge – Infra Red by

feesfotos

 

~ by ir0nee on July 8, 2008.