I am a Flickr freak...

Status: 110% perk

I like to take photos - most people know that about me. But they may not know that I just really took up photography fairly recently - within the last four years. Anyhow, a while back a friend suggested I might like Flickr. Ha! Once I got going, I was ADDICTED.

Here is a link to my Flickr account, Librarianguish. Normally the photo above would link directly to the page, but Blogger layout squished part of the photo off the side.

I liked it so much, I even wrote a poem about it...


Oh how I swoon for thee Flickr!
I post my photos – faster – quickr
I am obsessed…all the people snickr
I’ll take photos of everything
From a basket of wickr to a clock (called a tickr)
You cannot stop me!
And that is the kickr
Just try it yourself, there’s no need to bickr
Be a camera clickr!
Whether you’re a nose pickr, city slickr, or even boot lickr
Sharing photos is slickr with Flickr!


Sooooo...where was I? Oh yeah - I think I'll go for option two on this weeks assignment.

1. Create a free Flickr account - CHECK! Did that on October 2nd, 2005. I was thinking way ahead for this.
2. Use a digital camera to capture a few photos - CHECK! Carry one with me just about everywhere I go - you never know what you might see.
3. Upload your photos to Flickr and tag at least one - CHECK! 23,024 times!
4. Write a blog post about my photo and the experience of getting it uploaded to Flickr - CHECK! Well, I'm doing that right now, so it's almost a check.

About that photo...last week I and a couple of friends attended the Ghostland Observatory show at the Showbox Theatre near Pike Place Market in Seattle. One thing that I've discovered is I really enjoy taking photos of live music performances. Fortunately my friend is rather type A about getting in the front for shows, so we always have a really good spot. I really think that this time I personally had just about the best spot of all. Ghostland Observatory puts on one of the best live performances I have ever seen - the lead singer, Aaron Behrens, is incredibly charismatic and really draws the entire crowd into the show. And if you're in the front, like we were, you really get a special treat as he likes to walk back and forth at the front of the stage and reach out to touch people. People like to touch him as well - and not just the women. EVERYBODY wants to touch him. There is something very other-worldly about him. But I digress. Back to the photo - the lights and lasers made for a bit of tricky photography, but when things came together...WOW. This is one of my favorites from the show.

And about my experience uploading the photo... I use the uploader tool so I can upload big batches of photos at once. It takes a bit of time to get them into the tool - I often crop and adjust photos as I go, and sometimes add titles, descriptions, and tags - but once they're there I can just let it run all night. It's a very spiffy tool. Occasionally it glitches and stops running, but it's a minor detail when I can get a lot of photos uploaded in one fell swoop.

So - there you have it. Actually, I could go on quite a bit longer about Flickr, so I'll write another post later this week about the fun features and social aspects of the site.

It's time for me to go home - walking today, and I have my camera...maybe I'll see somthing to take a photo of!

Cheers!