More flickr fun - peaceful scene uploaded

Autumn leaves in the Adelaide Hills
Originally uploaded by apprentice_au

Well, that was interesting .. or scary, depending on how you look at it. I just joined Flickr, but it recognised my Yahoo I.D. and popped me straight in ... it seems the account I have at Yahoo includes Flickr ... hadn't realised that.

And it taught me how to say "G'day" in Basque as I entered .. "Kaixo" .. that amuses my mind, and humanises the site .. no accident, I'm sure.


This is a photo I took at a lovely old house up in the hills, a few autumns ago. It was on the hard drive of my own PC, and I uplifted it here via Flickr, giving Flickr approval to paste straight to my blog, a much easier process than that I've used in the past, which entailed getting a code from Photobucket which I pasted into the blank blog page I have on another site.


The blog seems to be set to wrap the text around the photo, and I would have preferred to be able to set the photo above, but the only way I coudl see to do it was a lot of carriage returns after the code for the photo, to establish the text far enough down the page for my liking. I will come back to Flickr in my own time and play with it some more, because it seems to have some possibilities that Photobucket doesn't have, e.g. editing is said to be a bit better, and if I wanted to, Flick can be used as a social networking tool. Not sure I am too fussed about that, though libraries with something pictorial to discuss could integrate photos and comment less easily than in a wiki, but with less worry about accidental deletion .. a worry for me, anyway. The other thing is that libraries could create a virtual library tour for someone who wasn't aware of our own webpage, though I suppose Marketing might have to vet content and how it was posted. Sample photos of facilities, for example a meeting room set up with equipment and some anonymous attendees could convey a better image than a mere list of room available for community use/hire.

Aha! a thought just struck me .. an unfurled photo of the program-specific banners would save wear and tear on the banners as potential users tried to decide whether to borrow this or that, and in fact a photo of each banner kept in a amall album where they are stored seems like a good idea ... and maybe one on each banner's Spydus record. Can Spydus import photos from Flickr? I will find out.

Also managed to create a link between a map of roughly where I think I took it to a photo above. Not sure how to link back to it, though .. will explore that later, but I think it would be great to be able to create a map of our campuses and have images linked to, in particular, the personnel or sample resources of the LRCs.