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.
I’m excited to announce Social Photo Talk, a new blog focused on the intersection of photographers, social media, and online communities. Topics will include blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and online communities and forums, with the specific angle of making those topics relevant to the professional or hobbyist photographer.
This blog will become more focused on clients and services of Hockley Photography; the genre of general articles about photography and social media that have been here in the past will be published on the new site in the future. Check out the site, subscribe to the RSS feed or subscribe via email and I look forward to your participation.
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:
- Through the Explore pages. Flickr uses an “interestingness” algorithm to determine what appear to be the 500 most interesting photos uploaded each day, and they’re showcased through Explore. Take a look around. There’s some amazing material. I’m proud of my photos which have been featured in Explore.
- Browse by an interesting tag. Simply go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tagnamehere – for example, check out recent photos tagged as “reflection”.
- Browse by a hot/trending tag. What’s hot right now? Go to the popular tags page to see.
- Browse by location. Fickr’s Places area allows one to find photos from a specific location (based on the geotagging data associated with individual photos).
- Find a group on a topic of interest. Name any topic and there’s probably a Flickr group. Want to see photos of fire engines? Portland? Monkeys? The color red? It’s there. And if you manage to find a topic not already covered, you can always create a new group!
- Browse some random Flickr photos using the Random Photo Browser from BigHugeLabs
- Also from BigHugeLabs (they have a bunch of Flickr tools), a photo wall that provides a dynamic, always-changing display of photos being added to Flickr. You never know what might pop up or catch your eye.
Did I miss something? How do you like to meander through Flickr?