David Wilkinson has a cool tool I like called Flickr Set Manager. It daily looks at my photos and updates several sets of my photos. One is my most interesting 120 photos. The others are the most interesting 30 photos for each year. Below is a slideshow for 2011.
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Project 365
So, I am day four into my participation in Project 365: One photo a day for an entire year.
I have to make it into May before I improve over the last time I tried this in 2007. Hope I make it. The last time resulted in some gems.
Time of Death Dec 27, 2009 at 2:34pm
Didn’t realize it was still on when I put it in my pocket for 2 hours.
At least I still have my SLR.
UPDATE: Ordered a replacement. Hope it is as good or faithful.
Ornamental Reflection
Downtown Valdosta outside Bleu Cafe.
Me Social Media
Dan Schultz doesn’t like Facebook or Twitter because they are too focussed on individual expression rather than the community.
That may be because he is using them wrong. I liked photography as a kid, but I didn’t know any photographers. Flickr happened to come into my life just after I bought my first digital camera. My participation in photography exploded. Not because I had a way to post my photos but because I had a way to find other local photographers for mutual encouragement. Even better was forming local groups to encourage people to meet. The value of Flickr is developing the community.
Similarly, I got into Twitter because my community, peers at other universities running the same software as myself, were seeking help there. Any place with answers to the problems we face, which is where people with the answers are watching, is where we go. Twitter was the place to get the attention of the right people not a forum like phpBB. (There are already lots of email lists.) My other community, people using the software I run are also on Twitter. I’ve resolved issues for many clients by finding their public complaints and offering solutions. When my focus changed away from using Twitter for the community is when I stopped liking Twitter.
Personally, I have yet to find much sense of community in the phpBB, Google Wave, and Ning. So I find it strange these are the exemplars of community applications. They seem fractured so one finds dozens of groups to covering the same interest. Sometimes this is because some moderator upset a portion of the community with draconian behavior causing people to form an alternative community. Bad blood exists for a while. Other times people set up a new community unaware others exist.
Asterisks in the sky
Flickr member Zack Sheppard did me a huge favor yesterday picking this picture for a Flickr blog about Asterisks in the sky. So in one day this picture was exposed to 5,931 people.
Several of those looked at the adjacent picture and others for a total of 10,640 hits yesterday. Lots of comments on many of my photos.
Wow. Just wow.
Nolan House Shed
Was saving this for tomorrow. However, I noticed a photo of me taking this photo posted today. So I posted mine too.
I enjoyed exploring this house and environs with Team Shipaway.
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes Originally uploaded by Ezra F
Yesterday was the second Athens, GA Strobist meeting. Like the first meeting, it was fun and informative. I really ought to invest in my own setup to practice outside these meets.
Maybe it is time to start selling my work so I can afford more gear.
Missing about 4 people. Photographers sites: 1) Erik (Onelight), 2) David, 3) Sherri (Onelight), 4) Wes, 5) Sara, 6) Steven, 7) Tim
I’m excited to see their photos.
Site Changes
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Upgraded to the Tarski 2.5 theme. Previously I was using the Tarski 2.4.
One of the reasons I like Tarski is the opportunity for a custom header image. Something I can use of my own. However, like the moo.com cards, finding a photo whose crop to this narrow 720×180 window isn’t so easy. At the moment I am using the train photo. Through the weekend I might try new photos.
Original Tarski Custom Header
Consideration one from my train photo.
Consideration two from my Queen Anne’s lace photo.
Consideration three from my mushroom photo.
Consideration three from my phlox photo.
Leave a comment if you see something you like.
Splash
I’m thinking of putting the above photo into the splash page as well.
The tacky Facebook profile widget got tackier. So now I have a Flickr widget for a slide show of my Most Interesting 60 photos. So, ya’ll visit the set of the strobist shoot to increase the Interestingness of your favorites into the top 10.
