Friday, March 6, 2009

Thing 5

I took this picture of a pictograph at the Honanki Ruins near Sedona Arizona on 11-3-2007. This is the first picture I have ever uploaded to Flickr. And then I uploaded it to my blog (another first)! :-)

Exploring Flickr is fun and I appreciate the sharing aspect of getting photos out there where family and friends can see them even if living continents apart! This is wonderful for staying in touch, and keeping up with what's going on in the lives of those important to us.

It would also be pretty cool for sharing what's new and what's happening at the library. Sharing Flickr images on the branch page is very fun and inviting idea.

I enjoyed exploring Flickr by tag. Picking non-concrete keywords leads to the most wonderful finds: keywords like freedom, ancient, Gaea, peaceful, eternity, etc.

I tried exploring by Geography, but found it overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time. Perhaps it was not functioning properly when I was trying to use it, but many map places I tried to click on had no photos at all. And when I did find some with photos, the photos included were not necessarily of things/sites of the region, but of kitchens, backyards, pets, and people who happen to live or visit the region. While this is ok, I would prefer seeing at least something indicative of the region in the background instead of just a kid's birthday party shot around a kitchen table (Even if the kitchen and party are in Alice Springs Australia).

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