Rant about Flickr

[bmattock]

That used to be true, but isn't anymore - you can now choose whether people with a guest pass can see private photos (and specify what type of private photos they can see - those for friends, those for family, both, or neither).

Heck, that's even better. Thanks for the info!

 

[furcafe]

No, I believe Facebook's TOS go significantly beyond flickr's because they allow Facebook not just to host the photos, but to use them commercially or any other purpose the choose. Predictably, there is a group on Facebook that was created to protest the current TOS.

I don't think Facebook's terms are that different than Flickr. They don't "own" your photos but they need the rights to host them.

 

[Tuolumne]

You might try Picasaweb. I sometimes use it as an alternative to Flickr. It's more of a private web photo sharing site. Not like Flickr whose whole purpose is to expose your photos to as many people as possible. It's also integrated with Google's Picasa which makes uploading to Picasaweb a 1-click snap.

/T
P.S. The problem with photo sharing on Facebook, is that the image quality is quite low. Acceptable for sharing snaps or phone-pics with your friends, but not more than that.

 

[bmattock]

While we're on the subject, I thought I'd add a list of institutions that have Flickr accounts - I really enjoy seeing the photos they post:

The Library of Congress uses Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Kodak uses Flickr too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodakpix/

Detroit Institute of Arts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitinstituteofarts/

George Eastman House:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/

National Media Museum (UK):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/

If anyone knows of others, please add to the list - I'd love to have them in my 'contacts' as well so I can see their latest additions!

 

[Ronald_H]

Flickr is awesome.

I don't know if you were aware, but there is a lot of 'bad' stuff on the Internet. Such is life. The beauty of Flickr is you can block the people obnoxious enough to favourite the photographs they are going to masturbate to later.

Flickr is indeed awesome. It truly is.

And I am aware of the bad stuff. Not THAT naieve you know 🙄

But that some weird people look at my friends, and as you so aptly put it, masturbate to the pictures I made of them... not the nicest of thoughts. God knows you can find far, far worse stuff, let them look at that and leave me the hell alone 😉

I was just a bit shocked that people like that actually try to contact me. The muslim acrhitecture example isn't that far off really. People seem to get the wrong idea... but let's not get too excited about THAT stuff shall we? I recently took pics of the local mosque and the caretaker came out to see what the hell I was doing. We had a nice little chat, but he couldn't really understand why I would want to shoot the building with an old FED 😀

 

[furcafe]

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/

While we're on the subject, I thought I'd add a list of institutions that have Flickr accounts - I really enjoy seeing the photos they post:

The Library of Congress uses Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Kodak uses Flickr too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodakpix/

Detroit Institute of Arts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitinstituteofarts/

George Eastman House:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/

National Media Museum (UK):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/

If anyone knows of others, please add to the list - I'd love to have them in my 'contacts' as well so I can see their latest additions!

 

[kshapero]

While we're on the subject, I thought I'd add a list of institutions that have Flickr accounts - I really enjoy seeing the photos they post:

The Library of Congress uses Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

Kodak uses Flickr too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodakpix/

Detroit Institute of Arts:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/detroitinstituteofarts/

George Eastman House:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/

National Media Museum (UK):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/

If anyone knows of others, please add to the list - I'd love to have them in my 'contacts' as well so I can see their latest additions!

Nice. I used to have my own website but it was difficult keeping up with it. Flickr is a good fit for me. Plus I can show off my photos on my iPhone w/o uploading. Slick for an old dog.

 

[kshapero]

Flickr is indeed awesome. It truly is.

And I am aware of the bad stuff. Not THAT naieve you know 🙄

But that some weird people look at my friends, and as you so aptly put it, masturbate to the pictures I made of them... not the nicest of thoughts. God knows you can find far, far worse stuff, let them look at that and leave me the hell alone 😉

I was just a bit shocked that people like that actually try to contact me. The muslim acrhitecture example isn't that far off really. People seem to get the wrong idea... but let's not get too excited about THAT stuff shall we? I recently took pics of the local mosque and the caretaker came out to see what the hell I was doing. We had a nice little chat, but he couldn't really understand why I would want to shoot the building with an old FED 😀

just went to your site. In 1972 I owned a double cab VW pickup. The back seat was converted into a bunk bed. That thing could go 55 MPH downhill max. It had total Hippie street cred. alas I blew a rod on the Ohio Turnpike.

 

[Ronald_H]

just went to your site. In 1972 I owned a double cab VW pickup. The back seat was converted into a bunk bed. That thing could go 55 MPH downhill max. It had total Hippie street cred. alas I blew a rod on the Ohio Turnpike.

Hehe. 55mph downhill max, that sounds oddly familiar. I never should have bought my T3, but thought 'hey, it's an aircooled VW, what can go wrong?'. But even my trusted garage couldn't keep it going. Most expensive mistake of my life 🙁 But hey, I still spent significantly less on it than a Leica M8.2 would cost 😀

Love old VW's...

 

[kshapero]

Hehe. 55mph downhill max, that sounds oddly familiar. I never should have bought my T3, but thought 'hey, it's an aircooled VW, what can go wrong?'. But even my trusted garage couldn't keep it going. Most expensive mistake of my life 🙁 But hey, I still spent significantly less on it than a Leica M8.2 would cost 😀

Love old VW's...

I love them too, but I swore them off by the mid 70's. I must had 15 of them. I was in love with 1967's because they were the first 12 volt VW's and the last without emissions crap on them. plus they were the last of the all metal (no Plastic) and no fake high seats of that terrible plastic interior.This resulted in them being really easy to work on. I had beetles, pickups, campers and karhman ghia's. Anyone who had them had a love/hate relationship with them.

 

[amateriat]

Bill: Thanks for this list. I've been thinking about a Flickr Pro account (while hashing out plans for my own site...getting set to play with iWeb for this purpose), and that list, as well as your own experience, gives me a bit ore to think about. I just have the standard free account, with a smattering of documentation pics, but nothing more.


- Barrett

 

[Spider67]

Hmmm...Talking bout strange people a lot of serial Killers used to have VW busses......

I had a strange reaction from a guy who some some of my photos and showed me his "portfolio". Some of his models were pretty young and he suggested "We could trade models".
They always existed. The internet just encouraged them

 

[photogdave]

I love them too, but I swore them off by the mid 70's. I must had 15 of them. I was in love with 1967's because they were the first 12 volt VW's and the last without emissions crap on them. plus they were the last of the all metal (no Plastic) and no fake high seats of that terrible plastic interior.This resulted in them being really easy to work on. I had beetles, pickups, campers and karhman ghia's. Anyone who had them had a love/hate relationship with them.

82 Diesel Westfalia converted to 1.8L inline 4. Best vehicle I ever owned! 😎

 

[bmattock]

Bill: Thanks for this list. I've been thinking about a Flickr Pro account (while hashing out plans for my own site...getting set to play with iWeb for this purpose), and that list, as well as your own experience, gives me a bit ore to think about. I just have the standard free account, with a smattering of documentation pics, but nothing more.


- Barrett

It also makes it super-easy to embed my photos (or a nice javascript slideshow) in my webpages.

http://www.wigwamjones.com/node/62

It was easy, just click and paste and save. Love that.