Look Left

Looky, looky, I added some picture to a Typepad photo album. See bottom left side bar. Imagine that. I can do all kinds of things I put my mind to. So there's only a few but they've got the motion we're talking about. And they've got Emotion too which is the best kind of motion. I like posting images as a way to punctuate my point. I'm such a visual person (duh) that it helps me get my point across. I'm guessing I'll be using pix more often. I can add more to this album too as I rediscover them in my 'photo archives'. The one called Me and I is one I just took the other day with my new FinePix.Which I loooooooove.

If you've got a shot you're dying to share and or need some input on, I'm more than willing to check it out. Feel free to email it to me at maypapers@yahoo.com and I'll see if I can help. OR you can always post it to your blog and send me the link in a comment. I love the flickr idea but me and the flickr have yet to jive. The site eludes me and I'm always at a loss over there.  Am I the only one?

Comments

[misha]

Hate flickr. Loooove your photos on the left.

Can't really explain the flickr thing. Maybe the layout? It's strange...

[GraceD]

do not fear flickr! it operates just like any of the other online albums - snapfish, etc. - but it's more of a community, with enthusiastic use of groups and, most importantly, tagging.

flickr serves so many purposes. if you attend a group event, like blogher, you can check out everyone's pics, by searching on the 'blogher' tag. Here's a search result in a 'cluster', which includes subcategories of tags:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/blogher/clusters/

One of my favorite tags to search on flickr are ideals like love:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=love&z=t

Or beauty:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?z=t&w=all&q=beauty&m=text

flickr is one of the first online sites I visit after an emergency/event. One can upload pics to flickr from our camera phones, so everyone can be a Citizen Photojournalist. Take, for example, the bombings in the London underground and buses last summer. People were snapping away on their camera phones in the tube, getting them online in seconds. Here's a shot of folks evacuating:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23389072@N00/128895717/in/set-72057594107670672/

Tracey, clearly I'm a flickr evangelist and Yahoo should really pay me for this swooning marketing, but the debt is on my side. Being part of the flickr community and sharing my punky little digital snapshots is often more profound in telling the story than my written blogs.

Okay. Somebody throw a bucket of cold water on me.

[urban child bride]

I'm all about sharing pictures, but I, too, still find flickr confusing and weird.

I SO love the pictures on the left! I took a picture of the Mister unloading the dishwasher (of all things to photograph!), and got some neat motion-blur.

Incidentally, I find that that blur that comes from turning off the flash and not being able to hold the DP&S really, really still can be overcome by setting the camera on my palm. It's a little difficult to describe, but I turn my palm up and make a little "table" for the camera to rest on, rather than holding it from each side, like a sandwhich. Of course, this really only works for photographing non-moving subjects, like landscapes and sleeping cats. I wouldn't recommend holding a camera this way when, say, chasing a toddler.

[Rebecca]

No idea about Flickr.....

I don't use the flash much and am always really happy when the blur works to my advantage. I posted a few. www.ignorethecrazy.blogspot.com

[tracey]

Thank you so much for your comments and input everyone. ANd Grace, I'll give flickr another shot, if I have to. I havn't had a minute to check out the links you posted but I will.

Love the tantrum shot Rebecca. Perfect example of when the blur works!

And Urban Child Bride, your hand-as a-table method sounds like a great way to keep still! Love it.

[Trista]

Ok, I took this picture over the weekend. Got a new camera, first thing I did was figure out how to turn the flash off. Of course, I was outside, so maybe the auto-flash wouldn't have gone off anyway, but still...

http://static.flickr.com/70/160921669_d692d5338b.jpg

I really think the blur in this picture is working well. I wanted to capture Katie dancing to make Julia (the baby) laugh, and the blur really shows how fast and crazy she was dancing...