Flickr users?

eclectic collection in the sig below
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if you really must see my photos then try
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinparis2007/

More kit than talent? Maybe. More humility than honesty? Definatly. Your shots are great.
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• Andrew

Lonnie Crotts said:

My Flikr introduction came when I received a gifted "pro" account
this past Christmas. It has quickly become my favorite photo sharing
website. Flikr is very versatile in sharing images and ideas,
however that seems to equal complexity as well and have not fully
learned how to best to take advantage of the site.

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Tag your shots so that you can offer people an entry point to a set of photos that transcends formal Set boundaries.

Geotag some photos so that we can discover your photos and where they were taken.

Lonnie Crotts said:

for family only and it proved to be cumbersome when family memebers
had not yet set up their accounts. I read that their is a guest user
type that may see these restricted photos however was not able to
figure how to use the feature with a bit of time invested. Some of

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I find accounts a hassle for uncommitted friends and family. A person has to register a Flickr or Yahoo account to gain entry to private galleries. PicasaWeb is better for this kind of private job - when you set a gallery in picasaweb as private, it generates a url with a randomised long tail of numbers - this means most public won't figure out how to get to the gallery yet your friends and family can get to that private gallery without the need to register into an account.

Lonnie Crotts said:

the other features don't seem to be that intuitive; ie. the slide
vieiwing is great but not readily found or noticed; I still do not

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Slide viewing is fine. There are flickr friendly sites like flickr river etc...which for example, display your photos on a black background, make a montage, better slide show.

Lonnie Crotts said:

know what the non-pro users have in comparison to the pro users.

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Non Pro accounts (like mine) have the following restrictions:
a. size of photo - can't take the full res
b. limited bandwidth upload per month
c. limited quota in total of number of photos
d. only 3 formal sets

The biggest asset of flickr is the large social aspect and community. And the large amount of flickr friendly sites because the flickr API is well known and leveraged.

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Ananda
http://anandasim.spaces.live.com/
http://olympuse510.wikispaces.com/
http://picasaweb.google.com/AnandaSim/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32554587@N00/

I'm there too!

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

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http://pix.ie/duffarama

I am another happy user of Flickr from Spain

this is my flickr galley link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olyverde2007/

I'll add myself to the already long list:

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

I've been using flickr for a few years now, and it's helped me to improve my photography and learn from others.

I like how I can add contacts and then look at their photos every day to see what others are doing - especially when others tend to have different styles, different gear, different points of view and homes in different parts of the world.

The Explore feature used to be good - but now it has been corrupted by a flood of mediocre shots, comment-junkies and shots that are promoted by mindless mutual back-slapping. I would prefer one comment from one thoughtful person who says "I like your shot but it could be better if ..." than 100 "nice shot" comments.
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• Andrew

Here's mine,

I'm quite new to Flickr and have picked up a couple of contacts - more would be most welcome

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

I've noticed my images don't show Exif data and I'm not sure why this is. I'm exporting resized JPEG's from Lightroom. Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong - sorry if it's obvious!

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Ian

To view Flickr galleries, there is a purpose designed web browser, based on the Firefox engine called Flock. It allows you to add favourite people and facilitates browsing their galleries.

For Firefox, there is the PicLens extension which also helps browse a page of images.

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Ananda
http://anandasim.spaces.live.com/
http://olympuse510.wikispaces.com/
http://picasaweb.google.com/AnandaSim/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32554587@N00/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23270288@N02/

I like the community at flickr, even though I'm not really active there, it's always fun to look pictures at different competitions in groups.

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Best regards,
Jeff
http://jeff.zenfolio.com/

I've slowly been moving away from the flickr popularity contest. I find it a little soul destroying to see hundreds of average shots getting thousands of views and loads of comments when there are some real gems getting totally overlooked. It all seems to depend on how loud you shout.

That being said, I have a minimalistic contacts list of people that I enjoy conversing with and looking at their photos. The best thing about flickr is that it's a nice site to host my shots and has a good interface.

I'll try and make a point of looking through all the pages mentioned in this thread so far, it may take me a while though!

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

You are too kind Andrew...

Have added you as a contact on Flickr - had a look through your photostream and loved the shot of the church in St Petersburgh. Stunning colours!

Keep up the good work!
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Jayturniphead
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jayturniphead/

I've also had a Flickr account for several years. I'm not a "rabid" poster to Flickr but rather use it mainly to share "snaps" with family and friends. Nearly all my posts are "open" (no password required) so it makes it easy for folks to view them without having to "join yet another web site" and set / remember another password.

Regards -

Paul in NoVA
Olympus E- 510, C- 730
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoney_g/

...below

Martin
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mstangler/

Lots of great galleries here!

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Stu (D50, E510, TZ4)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stujoe/

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Kritta said:

I like how I can add contacts and then look at their photos every day
to see what others are doing - especially when others tend to have
different styles, different gear, different points of view and homes
in different parts of the world.

The Explore feature used to be good - but now it has been corrupted
by a flood of mediocre shots, comment-junkies and shots that are
promoted by mindless mutual back-slapping. I would prefer one comment
from one thoughtful person who says "I like your shot but it could be
better if ..." than 100 "nice shot" comments.

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I used to pay attention to Explore but rarely do these days. I much prefer to browse through the photos of contacts in the same way you talk about above.

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Stu (D50, E510, TZ4)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stujoe/

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i use flickr to post images here, other than that i am working on getting galleries up on my own hosting.

but flickr is a pool of info and ideas if you take time to look

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if you can imagine the picture, then do all you can to make it

I can be found at

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

I enjoy my time there but don't give or encourage all the mandatory comment 'sparkly heart' awards.

Cheers

f_m

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Stu (D50, E510, TZ4)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stujoe/

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