Thursday, May 17, 2007

Flickr discoveries


Wind direction takes a new meaning! If you've been to Exmouth you'll relate to this scene I 'm sure! I found it lovely in December but believe it is much better during the winter months! I will attempt to get some digital shots attached to the Flickr account later...for now this is #10 and on to the Flickr fun!

I think we are in agreement that one could spend hours within Flickr- in one spot one could find all sorts of information including doing some shopping for gifts using albumprinter or even a photo album quilt to get a personalised gift going …just fork out the $

I had fun looking at photos …boolean and phrase searching works, the tags are real handy and as suggested by JMCG using a “thread” tag would certainly help!

Not sure if the photo I selected from Flickr is going to be seen or you will need to click this link..
it is a lovely shot of an orchid...I hope as I was intending to include one on a fruit I rather enjoy which has the Asian name Chiku...so not sure!

One could really delve into using one’s creative skills – afraid I did the reading and exploring but not too deeply into the creation as yet. Some comments include: Spell with flickr….black with blue fonts abit hard on the eyes…but nice way to get banners etc.
The article in BusinessWeek with the slide show gives some understanding and visual egs of mashups which I take to be overlaying …would our screen captures on powerpoints be considered in this catergory??? Guess I’m being presumptuous! Issue of copyright?

Perhaps I need to get back to doing some photography…used to…those toys could set one back hours just playing with setting up galleries etc…don’t know about trading cards as probably won’t have any takers…but if we did an online learning package I wonder if we could look into using this in a game like environment! Trip planner ….potential for any planning especially with friends who might be overseas etc. Oh! JMCG the image generators are also something...see this link ...not sure if it works within this!

http://www.cybercones.com/sundae-strawberry-c-ch-2-yf.htm

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey Nap, I'm glad you sorted out your blogging security problems. At least we know if this happens to someone else.
Flickr certainly does suck up your time once you get going, and the orchid photo is superb. Did you take that? jmcg

ELLE said...

Hi Nap
I hope that you didn't encounter too much wind in Exmouth. it is a place that I quite like and I can't rememebr my photos looking quite like that. Very reminicent of Geraldton.
Flickr can sure eat up your time, but isn't it fun
ELLE

nap said...

Just picking up on the comments...JMCG photo of orchid was from flickr and totally agree fun beign in it but time could get away when in it. Elle my brother-in-law took that shot of the trees.