flickr
My forays into the world of flickr began when Charlee reminded me to put up the photos from our holiday in Lloret de Mar last year in the photo pool. Now I had resisted for a while going back to uploading my photos onto photo sharing websites since back in the day when I was using Sony's imagestation. Also, my photos for that holiday were already up on this website.
Sony's imagestation was great. Until someone pointed out to me that the reason for me getting unlimited space was the fact that I was giving away the copyright to my photos. Now, I don't know if that was true or not, but it certainly scared me into stopping. I'll be darned if I let someone take away my right to sell my 20,000 pictures of Ivan!
So then I got my own website, with it's own gallery. Even though it didn't have masses of space it was good for the purpose of sharing the photos I had taken with friends and family (and random strangers sent there by google.) Unfortunately this was at the expense of a lower resolution than I had taken them in.
Anyway, I gave in to Charlee to put up the photos on flickr, because it's nice to share and I hate it when people don't share their photos. I only got to upload about half the photos because of the upload limits, etc... Charlee suggested I get a pro account. What?!?!? Actually pay for something online?!?! Crazy woman... But then I started thinking, what if I lost all my photos in some freak hard disk crash?!?!? Who will back up my pictures for me?!?
So I gave in... $47.99 for 2 years of peace of mind... See you in 2 months when I have finished sorting out all my pictures!
Comments
Ah, two years, yes that's why I haven't had to pay anything this year, I was getting worried :s But yeah, flickr has so many good features. I converted a guy at work the other day, who wants to share pics of his daughter with his friends and family, without weirdos being able to see them. And another friend posts her semi-pro pics under a much more limited creative commons quite successfully.
So yay :) another friend on flickr :D
Posted by: Charlee | February 24, 2007 9:26 PM