Professional photography services for the Portland / Vancouver area
A while back I setup a Facebook fan page for Hockley Photography, but I haven’t really used it until recently. I’m now publishing some photos to Facebook (and tagging included individuals in those photos).
If you’d like to become a fan of Hockley Photography, head over to my Facebook page and click the button at the top. You’ll then see any content I post on Facebook as part of your news item stream.
I recently launched a new website featuring photos I’ve created around my hometown of Vancouver, Washington. It’s a fun way to share some of the interesting and quirky sights of my locale. Photos can be browsed sequentially and are also categorized by neighborhood. All photos are also available for print sales or commercial licensing.
If you’d like to follow along, I’m posting a new photo each weekday at Vancouver Snapshots.
Flickr is a great site with some great photography. Most everyone is familiar with the process of uploading photos or viewing photos of a particular person, but there are a lot of cool ways to find interesting images on Flickr. Here’s a quick list of some of my favorite ways to explore Flickr:
Did I miss something? How do you like to meander through Flickr?
Every once in a while I stumble across something unexpected and amazing on Flickr. Check out this set of photos of post-its by Flickr user gracie’s ephemera. Wow.
Flickr’s Explore section allows users to, um, explore, the most popular photos on the service. The top 500 photos (as ranked by Flickr’s Interestingness algorithm) uploaded each day are included in Explore.
I’ve had around two dozen photos in Explore (photo set here). Recently I noticed that this photo was ranked #1 overall for its day.
The interesting part is that among my photos, this one really doesn’t do too much for me. It’s a telesmash that IMO isn’t very well composed. As soon as I took this shot in the field I was mad at myself for cutting off the top part of the smoke. Apparently the Flickr community disagrees, and I’m not going to argue with the masses that think this was the best photo uploaded to Flickr last year on May 22, but it’s a reminder that one’s opinion of a shot is heavily subjective. The community says it’s great, but I see room for improvement.
