Do You Have a Flickr Account?

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I have to admit I didn’t know anything about Flickr until very recently. The first thing I learned was that it is part of the Yahoo Group, and I learned that when I heard about Microsoft putting a bid in for Yahoo.

So why am I interested now?

Well it’s not because Microsoft may be taking over. I am going to be starting my own photography Project 365 and I was trying to decide how to share the photos. This blog is all about my journey as a photographer so the fact that I wanted to share them wasn’t even a question, but where is the best place?

I did think about sharing them on the blog as that was the obvious place, but Project 365 is about taking a photo a day for a year, so that’s a lot of photos. So just adding the photos in between the other posts seemed messy, I felt that the project is big enough to need some separate attention.

But at the moment this blog is still new, building and finding it’s feet, so I don’t feel it’s right to start another blog or photoblog in case it took me away from here.

So I started to look at photo management sites. And the most popular one that you always hear about and everybody seems to be part of is Flickr. Now I don’t know why I have never considered using a photo management site before, I suppose I just haven’t felt the need. But it makes a lot of sense now, I can upload and share my Project 365 photos and link to them from this blog. I will also be doing monthly updates here about how I am finding the project, so joining a photo management site seems a much better solution.

Flickr

As I said earlier Flickr is owned by Yahoo which means you can use your Yahoo ID (if you have one) when you sign up. They say it’s most likely the best photo management system on the internet with millions of users and all types of photographers. I’m most interested in the creative commons feature which gives you flexible control over your images and who is allowed to use them. I am looking forward to trying out Flickr to see what it is like.

Flickr’s two main goals are:

1. To help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. Enable new ways to organize photos.

So in a week I have gone from knowing nothing and not being interested in Flickr, to starting my own account and looking to join a Flickr group to do with Project 365, to meet other photographers doing the same thing. A pretty sharp turn around!

Mandy

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