Flickr

For a while I've been wondering what to do with all the photos I take, edit but don't put on my photoblog. At the moment for example I've been posting a series of shots I took in Greenwich Park one day, but at 1 photo a day by the time I'm done there are tons more I need to put somewhere.

So I signed up for a Flickr freebie account to check it out and I almost immediately signed up for a Pro account. It really is so simple to use and organize your photos, especially with the fancy flash app they have for organizing.

The idea is to just upload all the web versions of photos I edit in photoshop, last year it was around 400 for the whole year, this year it's nearing 300 already. I've uploaded all of 2005 photos and some of 2004 to My Flickr account, at the moment things will be arriving in a weird order, new to old, as I catch up with history but soon you should be able to subscribe and get a more real time view on what I take and how often etc.

I especially like the community bits, already some people have commented on my photos, added to their favorite lists etc, that's really nice as it can be really difficult to build up any kind of community around ones own photos, but since Flickr is so strongly community orientated it's pretty nice as a photographer.

I am still getting used to the idea of tags instead of categories, but it seems to work ok so far, everything of course outputs RSS or Atom so you can subscribe to a feed of all photos, or just for instance Photos of People.

Links:
My Photo Stream
My Photo Tags
Sets of Photos
Calendar View by Date-Taken