There are some wonderful applications using Flickr’s API. These are from my photoset called (you guessed it) ‘some faves’. Mouse over a picture to see its title in Flickr.
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‘Flickr’ Category
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My Current Crop of Favourite Photos (Collage)
December 9, 2006 by Gail
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From the Ben Franklin Bridge
September 24, 2006 by Gail
Photos from the trip to Philadelphia, PA / Camden, NJ being uploaded slowly but surely. The photoset thus far:
There were a couple of things I wanted to do while I was down in Philadelphia, and one of them was to visit the Italian Market where David took some of his shots when he flew down for the only Flickr meetup he was able to attend.
Dave’s Logbook: Philly Flickr Meetup
I remember distinctly the phone conversation we had that night. I was at a Vancouver Flickr Meetup the same night at Trout Lake to watch firespinning, and I sat off to the side of the field listening to David’s excited chatter about how he flew down in the Tri-Pacer and took Gregory for a spin over his neighbourhood (and discovered from the aerial shots that his neighbours had a pool!).
I was so pleased to hear David’s animated voice, telling me how great the other Flickr people were and how much fun he was having. In hindsight perhaps this was already the cancer taking hold of his body, but I knew he’d been feeling tired and later he said he was reluctant to tell me how fatigued he was, day after day. We hadn’t seen each other in more than three weeks since David returned to Scranton from Vancouver after his birthday weekend, and although we were in touch by phone and email on a daily basis, we were unhappy to be apart in order to satisfy visa requirements. I was hoping David would take more opportunities to join the Philly Flickr people on social outings, to take time off from his commitments and be a part of the photography community the way I was involved with Vandigicam. David’s first Philly Flickr meetup sounded encouraging to me; he needed to have more fun to regain some balance between work and play.
Addie kindly took me to the Italian Market where she and Seuss and the others walked with David more than a year ago. I found the sign I was looking for, a simple neon outline of a pig, a shot that David took at night and one that I’d commented on. I don’t know why that one stuck in my brain, but I was bent on finding it. I remember David telling me that he wanted to take me to the Italian Market the next time we were in Philadelphia, and I can see why — not just for photographs, but for the market atmosphere that we both enjoyed. When Addie found the Fiorella’s storefront, I felt like I’d completed a mission.Posted in David, David's Writing, Flickr, Photography, USA | No Comments
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My Handwriting
July 14, 2006 by Gail
For the Handwriting Meme group in Flickr. Check out the pool.
Because I was nothing but nerdy in school, I devoured books on handwriting analysis. I found it utterly fascinating — upper zones, lower zones, slant, pressure, the way people dot (or circle) their i’s — and revealing. What a fun 10-year old, eh? Following people around with a paper and pen to get a sample, then psychoanalysing them from a corner, thick glasses peering from behind the book as if it were a lie detector test in Supreme Court.
What does my handwriting say about me? Probably that I’m anal, haha.
I have a variety of writing styles, and use both printing and cursive. My handwriting’s evolved over the years, and because I type more now than write, I’m out of practice. It’s become sloppier and I make more mistakes. I need to get back into the handwriting!
Oops, just noticed I wrote it wrong… it should be “jumps over” instead of “jumped over”… Oh well, I can’t be that anal, then.
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Flickr PSA
June 22, 2006 by Gail
www.flickr.com/account/prefs/apioptout/
I was talking to someone recently about how programs that use Flickr’s API allow people access to large sizes of your Flickr photos even when you’ve chosen the setting NOT to make larger sizes available.
www.flickr.com/account/prefs/downloads/
This is something to keep in mind if you choose the setting: it won’t stop programs using Flickr’s API from letting people view (and download) larger versions of your photos, even the original file size. I’ve tested it using a plugin on my own site — every size is available, to anyone — but the plugin lets me choose whether to show the sizes links or not.
Opting out of API searches is just one measure. If you don’t want people to download larger resolutions of your photos, the only way to ensure this is to upload only small versions.
Just an FYI, if it concerns you.
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Changes Afoot at Flickr
May 10, 2006 by Gail
From the Flickr Blog: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/05/changes_afoot.html
I’ve been waiting for some implementation, especially in the search features.
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Congrats Caterina and Stewart! Go Flickr!
May 8, 2006 by Gail
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Interestingness1 Video, by TheLastMinute
April 23, 2006 by Gail
Interestingness1 by thelastminuteI don’t remember how I first came across Duncan Rawlinson’s site www.thelastminuteblog.com (I first linked to him back in September 2004), but he’s been videoblogging lately and put together this movie of Flickr photography that made it to the ‘interestingness’ pages. Except for a glut of self-promotional mistagging in the middle, most of the photographs are genuinely “wow” and “WOW” and “awww” and all that.
I can’t begin to guess how many photos comprise this video. Beware of stimulation overload!
Blog post is here: Interestingness1
Video is here: Interestingness1 movie 75MBs
Flickr image and text: Interestingness1 on FlickrPosted in Flickr, Linkage, Other Photogs, Photography, Videoclips | No Comments
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Look Familiar?
April 22, 2006 by Gail
london cycling by kevin meredithI was perusing one of the Flickr groups I started, The Adventures of Kermit, and serendipitously came across the profile of one of the members, Kevin Meredith. His profile looked vaguely familiar, so I glanced over his amazing photostream and saw this photo. If you’re a longtime Flickr member, you’ll notice it resided on the Flickr home page for ages — it’s my favourite, still. (Wasn’t she facing the other direction?)
There’s are ‘faux Lomo’ techniques in Photoshop (and a large lomography following), but photos such as these make me want to go out and buy a Lomo camera today and start experimenting.
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Interestingness
April 14, 2006 by Gail
I don’t know what formula Flickr uses to calculate “interestingness” (from what I read it changes often), but the Flickr API allows developers to display such photos in creative ways. The Flickr photographer flagrantdisregard comes to mind first, with all the Flickr Toys he’s created from badges to postcards to stamps to slideshows from the Explore page.
Came across another display method today, this time another developer using the “interestingness” ranking output for photos.
My “interesting” photos on black or white.
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Utata.org
March 8, 2006 by Gail
When I was at the Toronto Flickr meetup at the Red Room last month, I promised the webmaster of Utata.org that I would write David’s testimonial for the website. Utata.org is a site created by the Utata community on Flickr, and David contributed this photo to Utata’s first project last year, the Trains Project, which became a Yahoo Pick of the Day on July 2, 2005.
It took me a long time before I was ready to sit down and write David’s Utata testimonial. It wasn’t as difficult as writing his obituary (which is mostly factual, but it’s the last thing a person would ever wish to write, at any time), but I struggle, still, with writing about David in the past tense.
David Lee Fielding (1967-2005)
A true romantic, David Fielding had a rare gift: to view the natural and physical worlds beyond casual observation. Behind the lens, his artist’s perspective found beauty and poetry — and humour — in the mundane, inviting a closer look at the everyday. His Lunchwalk series, for example, transcends the ennui of overfamiliarity to make new discoveries in the textural richness of urban decay.
David’s photos seek to rekindle, to reacquaint, to let ourselves be charmed again by the world around us. That, I believe, is one of his greatest legacies.
Thing is, David hadn’t written his Utata bio, but I think I might just use his Flickr profile for that purpose.
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