I recently took my digital camera and snapped some pictures of the flowers that are blooming in the yard. Snapped here being a stretch, though my digital camera does make a “chick-chick” sound like a shutter snapping.
Rather than upload the pictures here, I decided to try [Flickr], a photo sharing service. Flickr really is painless and straightforward. A couple of clicks and I had signed up for an account. A simple email confirmation, and I was ready to upload photos. Less than 10 minutes later, I had my photos uploaded and ready to show the world. Kudos to Flickr for making it so very easy.
My photos are on Flickr for the whole world to see: [Flickr: Photos from bturnip]. Click on the “What’s Blooming” link on the left side of the screen and you will have the option of watching the pictures as a short slide show.
My style, if there is one, aside from accidents of lighting and focus, is aped from my sister’s style of picture taking. One of her focus areas is flowers- I have written about her work on Unknown Dog before [here].
Nice. Out of laziness, I started using ofoto.com to share my pictures. I bought a Kodak digital camera and it corralled me to that site. I probably suffer in terms of spyware and whatever other minions of The Man might be in action there, so I’ll check out this one too. I have to admit it’s nice though, just plug in the camera and it almost automatically creates a new slideshow for me there with the pictures I have recently taken and I can share them easily. One can order prints too, cheaply, which seems a bit lame to tell your family and friends “hey, here are prints, buy some if you want” but then again the reality is that I’ll probably never get around to doing it myself and having them spend a quarter here and there is probably worth it to them as well.