Gotta Have My Flickr
July 6th, 2006 by dmirliss
Flickr has recently received a lot of bad press in the Second Life community lately (see cogdogblog) because of their policy against images that do not fall into the strictest definition of a photograph. Putting this argument aside (if you look into my account I have close to 100 SL images myself), I am absolutely loving my flickr account. It might be the fact that I practically grew up in a darkroom, helping my professional photographer father develop Black and White images (I am not that old - color photographs were in existence) or that I love to create photographs myself. I would take a guess and say that it is a combination of displaying my art and sharing it with others. color photographs were in existence) or that I love to create photographs myself. I would take a guess and say that it is a combination of displaying my art and sharing it with others.
Sharing my images also has some interesting consequences. The beach picture that is featured in this post is being used for a travel web site, www.homeandabroad.com, to advertise Nantucket (very cool). Others have also enjoyed my photographs, adding them as their favorites. I always look to see who has added my pics as favorites and what other images they had in their favorites collection. It started with my banner pic - a very innocent picture of flowers. Then it escalated to a picture of my SL avatar - ok, someone thinks she looks good (I spent enough money on her). Then someone added a pic of my husband’s feet to their favorites - ewwww. Why is there a pic of my husband’s feet? Well, I was bored on the same beach and started to take pictures of anything including feet (I also took a pic of my own feet). When I looked at this person’s profile she had a collection of men’s feet all tagged as her favorites. I am tempted to comment back “Get your own hairy feet - these are taken!”. *smile*
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