Tags on the Flickr Map are a great source of inspiration on what events people are capturing in the Flickrverse. Heather caught the thunderinthedesert tag in the southwest United States, and as she knew I was one of the resident aviation geeks in the office, she pointed it out to me. This was a recent air show at Luke Air Force Base near Glendale, Arizona, where the clear crisp skies of desert air and classic aircraft go together well. Enjoy!
“She hung out on the ledge outside my office window for a couple of hours yesterday. I say ‘she’ because this is the bigger hawk of the nesting pair at Queen’s Park, and females of the species tend to be bigger than males.” — .natalie
I’ve been intrigued with urban nesting pairs since Pale Male captured New York’s attention in the 1990s. Natalie’s photos of the Queen’s Park nesting pair are amazing and I’m hoping for more.
Flickr is full of wonderful photos… but have you ever noticed that there’s some stellar photography in the Flickrverse? I mean really stellar, in the celestial sense.
It just so happens that this year is the International Year of Astronomy, so there are lots of interesting activities happening around the world with many opportunities learn more about astronomy photography.
They’ve also teamed up with Astrometry.net who have built a robot that automatically add astrotags to photos in the group (astrotagging is the celestial equivalent of geotagging).
Jim (akaeat your greens) from the Royal Observatory team has even developed a neat tool, which allows you to see photos from the group correctly positioned on a map of the sky.
A few bits and pieces from the Fickrverse and beyond:
“How Bay Area phenomenon Flickr has managed to create a feel-good route to photographic fame and fortune (or at least a few hefty checks in the mail) and turn scores of isolated amateurs into a network of admired professionals.”Awesome capture, San Francisco Magazine
“If you’re not using Flickr yet, then you’re really missing out. Not only is it a great way to store and share your photos, but it’s also an excellent place to get feedback and learn from other photographers.”How Flickr Can Make you a Better Photographer, Digital Photography School
“A similar stigma exist for people who use Flickr which is equally as foolish. It always amazes me that photographers would shun the largest community of photography enthusiasts on the web simply because they don’t understand how to navigate the social ecosystem.”Flickr Stigma, We can shoot too
(No Pomeranians were harmed in the making of this video)
“New Zealand’s stupid new copyright law that would cost you your Internet connection if you were accused of copyright infringement three times (without proof of any wrongdoing) is officially dead. Massive, global interest in the law, as well as a series of savvy Internet- and meatspace-protests convinced the government to climb down off the ledge that the American movie and music companies had lured it onto.”New Zealand’s stupid copyright law dies, Boing Boing.
They join with a 121 photo sampling from their public archives, which hold more than two million photos – including copy prints, glass plates and other negatives, slides and 70,000 digital copies.
The sets here, taken over a period stretching from the later part of the nineteenth century, are from the collections of Carl Curman (1833–1913), a Swedish physician and scientist, who photographed Swedish towns, such as Stockholm and Lysekil, sailboats and the fisherman population, as well as his own family. He also photographed Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, during his visits to other parts of Europe.
Keep an eye out for more photographs from the Swedish National Heritage Board in the coming weeks. In the meantime, your comments, notes and tags are much appreciated!
That painful “Loading….” message you might have seen when you’re selecting contacts on Flickr? A thing of the past.
We’re happy to announce a significant improvement to the way you find
and select contacts on Flickr. You’ll notice a new people-picker in the Share This dialog box, when addressing a new Flickr Mail, and when searching your Contacts List. Members with thousands (even tens of thousands) of contacts can now find a specific person without any noticeable delay. So, go forth and play with the pretty Flickr people-picker.
We have made a few changes to the Stats feature (available to Pro members) that lets you look at more days in the past, and see what’s happening today!
No more waiting until the end of the day for updates, the main Stats page now shows delicious data from today and yesterday. You can also look up to 28 days into the past by clicking the dot on the graph for the day you would like to view.
To make room for this additional information, ‘All time’ views and referrers doesn’t show anymore on the main stats page (although you can see all time views on the individual item pages).
Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and more!
