On Saturday, I went out to Hawrelak Park for a Flickr meetup. A rather prominent Flickrite, striatic, was ending his Flickr tour across America and Canada here in Edmonton, since he's originally from here and his mother lives here.It was a lot of fun meeting other Flickr members from the area, chatting, exchanging photo tips, and discussing Flickr, communities, and social networks. We took a walk around Hawrelak and took many many photographs. I uploaded 130 pictures of the event to this photoset.
After the meetup was over, I walked around the University area, checked out the progress on the South LRT extension, then hopped on the LRT downtown, heading to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2){kind=small}
unicornsmith & ayrsayle's new townhouse. The photos I uploaded from that walk are here.
At the townhouse, we basically just hung around, and I took a lot of pictures there as well, both on Saturday and on Sunday (I had slept over, which seems traditional now). The pictures I took there, among them some of them best I've ever taken so far, are here.
I also took a bunch of pictures of ayrsayle's geckos, which you can find in this photoset.In total, I took 518 photos over the weekend, but only uploaded 211 of them. I'm really glad I bought a large memory stick for my camera. 518 photos only used 336 MB out of a possible 512 MB (not including the extra 32 MB of the camera's built-in memory which can also be used). Whee!
Four days ago, I posted this: Your photostream has been viewed 800 times.
Today: Your photostream has been viewed 1056 times.
July 19 2005, 04:54:44 UTC 6 years ago
(I like the gecko.)
July 19 2005, 05:02:18 UTC 6 years ago
I do, however, maintain all of the originals which are 2304x1728.
July 19 2005, 06:32:21 UTC 6 years ago
The JPEG compression is normally not too damaging, but there are times that it screws with the quality of a photo, under some specific circumstances.
If and when I can afford a higher level digital camera, believe me I'll be ensuring that it supports exporting a lossless RAW format.
July 20 2005, 02:04:06 UTC 6 years ago
i *need* photo friends to hang out with!
;p
oh and of course, some very awesome photos in here. props on the great photo weekend as well! :)
July 20 2005, 02:19:50 UTC 6 years ago
The actual photo hosting part of it is really great, too. When you upload your photos, you can set a maximum size for them, and Flickr will automatically create multiple sizes of the same image, 75x75, 100x75, 240x180, 500x375, 1024x768, 1600x1200, etc. up to the maximum you specified.
Once your photos are uploaded, you can name them, give them descriptions, and even create "notes", where you can draw areas on the actual photo that pop up some text when you mouse over them (here's an example).
You can organize your photos into "photosets" which are like little albums, plus you can share them with public groups that they relate to (e.g, the Edmonton group).
Lastly, you can also add "tags" to each photo, relating to what's in them. For example, the photo of the gecko in this post is tagged as gecko, lizard, and hand. Other people looking for photos of lizards, geckos, or hands can use those tags to find such photos, including mine.
You can get a free account which lets you upload about 20 MB per calendar month, or pay $25 USD for a Pro account which lets you upload about 2 GB per month (which is a good deal, actually).
Like I said, though, the best thing about it is that it's very social, people are very friendly, and it's great exposure if you want lots of people to see your work.
Whew! I think I'm done fellating it now. Go have a look. If you sign up, add me as a contact. =)
July 20 2005, 02:23:38 UTC 6 years ago
and thank you.
you should be some sort of promoter. :D
July 20 2005, 02:24:07 UTC 6 years ago