Do you have a flickr gallery??

I love flickr! The big selling point for me is how well the search feature works, which comes in very handy when I'm doing any sort of research like how well a lens, film, body, etc... produces an image. Sure, I can read all the reviews I want, but most of the time opinions are very subjective, so I prefer to see photos myself and reserve my own judgment. I've even used Flickr to research shooting locations if I've never been to the certain area or I'm looking for something but don't know where I may find it within the city. I don't think I've been to other image hosting sites that search nearly as well as Flickr, which probably has a lot to do with Yahoo.

I don't post a lot on there and what photos I do have I get very few comments, but I really don't care. It's not a popularity contest for me. I'm just contributing some of my work in case anyone is using Flickr for the same purposes I do.

Their discussion boards certainly leave a lot to be desired.
 
I use it a lot but only as a photo sharing tool. I haven't participated in any of the forums or comments etc. but its an easy way to see what my friends have been up to by just going to look at their pics. I also run a mountaineering and rock climbing guide service and find its super convenient for getting pics to clients of their trips with us. I can also go and look at my guides' pics of their trips with clients to see what sort of shape the local mountains that we guide are in as far as snow coverage goes. Its pretty utilitarian for me. I don't go looking for art there but when I need a photo for the company website I have access to all the guides' pics. Its pretty convenient for me.
 
like Gabriel noted there are RFF members in Flickr, check his earlier post on P1 for the members/flickr ID's. My flickr account is below my signature.
 
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Yes I do have a flickr account. My first impresion of the main problem with the site is that it seems to be that there is waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too many photographs, pools etc. so to stand out form the mass, it takes a lot more than just posting great photographs. I think. I dunno.

My flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/56958149@N00/
 
I do post on flickr, because I have no time to post in many galleries, and flickr is simply pretty fast and hassle free.
I find it is a bit of a maze filled mainly with people who machine gun their digital photos without much selection criteria, but there are some valuable groups, among them the rangefinder forum, m mount, and decisive moment - esp the decisive moment classic pool, that contains only the selected photos is pretty good.
I try to look at other people photos and learn from them, when I come across something I like, I put it among my favs. This sometimes causes reciprocal interest, and this way you grow your pool of contacts, who become your restricted flickr inside flickr.
If someone puts me among his contacts, I try to look at his/her photos, and I normally reciprocate, unless the photos are a pile of digi-high-speed-machine-gun-snaps of their cat and family.
Overall, I find flickr is a place which gives you reasonable convenience and a possibility to create your own circle of interesting photo contacts where to improve your skills. My gallery link below.
 
Link to mine in signature (same username). Like mfogiel I like the ease of uploading and organising. It's ideal for an idle git like me. I paid the subscription because I found three galleries (sets) just too restrictive.
 
Thanks for all the responses, but I think I posed my question incorrectly. I would like to know rff members favorite photo hosting site. But I do have quite a few flickr galleries to look at now, sad to say all my pics ore the snapshot variety but hope to change that soon.
 
robert blu said:
May I ask which is the main difference between flickr and pbase ?
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As far as I can tell the main difference is that on PBase, no one looks at your photos. There is no real facility for people to communicate with each other or find others with common interests as there is with Flickr. Flickr is full of snapshots, but PBase is full of super-Photoshopped plastic-looking digital shots of women posed in totally artificial conditions in various stages of undress, sunset photos, and macro shots of flowers.

PBase is a bigger pain in the ass to upload to, and also to arrange photos in. I'm probably going to let my PBase subscription lapse when the year is up; it's been a total waste of money. It's not worth it, just to be able to put my photos on a black background.

If anyone has a good argument for why PBase is worth keeping, I'd be interested to hear it.
 
Strange. I have a Yahoo email and it is the address linked to my Flickr. In the 5 years I've used the email account I haven't received a single spam message.

I should probably touch wood while writing that.

Matthew
 
No spam gets through to my Gmail account (almost). That's the one I use everywhere. I have made it invisible on flickr as I have here. Anyone who wants to contact me has to use the built-in flickr mail system. My Yahoo mail account, which I see as a neccesary evil, and a couple of other moribund mailboxes are scanned about once a week using Apple Mail and usually sent straight to trash.
 
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