Photo of one of Avignon's best restaurants (I didn't eat there or take this photo.) The view from the outside tables is the Baroque facade of St. Pierre'sI joined Flickr to post my meager collection of photos from a recent trip to Paris and Provence. I also set up a group for our trip in hopes the others who took more and better photos would post some of them to share.
Flickr was, overall, easy join/post photos. I'm glad that I did not need to give them my personal or work e-mail address, though I did need to generate a e-mail at Yahoo! But that went fairly fast and signing onto Flickr, even creating a group is not many steps. I did NOT use Flickr's invite option for other members of the travel group, since I thought they might resent the solicitation. Rather I sent an e-mail from my home account with links to Flickr.
Another member of the trip put up her photos up on Flickr also (she had used if before) and joined the group, but she has not figured out the step to add her photos to the group collection, yet.
So, here are links to my photos, Mary Ellen's photos and our Group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9669010@N02/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9702002@N05/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/396413@N20/
This task helped me understand how the groups of photos (Dog's noses, Librarian's Desks, and a group of photos of Provence that numbers in the thousands of shots) arise and grow in Flickr. I imagine people find the groups while surfing and think, "I've got a photo of that!" Or, "I've got that and will take a phots of it!" Then they ask to join the group and then add their photo or simply add the tag. At Flickr the collections manage to be both idiosyncratic and collective; the work of many.
Flickr was, overall, easy join/post photos. I'm glad that I did not need to give them my personal or work e-mail address, though I did need to generate a e-mail at Yahoo! But that went fairly fast and signing onto Flickr, even creating a group is not many steps. I did NOT use Flickr's invite option for other members of the travel group, since I thought they might resent the solicitation. Rather I sent an e-mail from my home account with links to Flickr.
Another member of the trip put up her photos up on Flickr also (she had used if before) and joined the group, but she has not figured out the step to add her photos to the group collection, yet.
So, here are links to my photos, Mary Ellen's photos and our Group:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9669010@N02/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9702002@N05/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/396413@N20/
This task helped me understand how the groups of photos (Dog's noses, Librarian's Desks, and a group of photos of Provence that numbers in the thousands of shots) arise and grow in Flickr. I imagine people find the groups while surfing and think, "I've got a photo of that!" Or, "I've got that and will take a phots of it!" Then they ask to join the group and then add their photo or simply add the tag. At Flickr the collections manage to be both idiosyncratic and collective; the work of many.
I've seen links to Flickr from organization's website, as a way to display their photos. It could be useful for displaying digital photos from the library's special collections. Flickr limits the size of each photo uploaded for free accounts, but I think there is no limit to number of photos. Also, it seems that photos uploaded are considered fair game for others to use, even edit, so that would be a consideration. Though I did see copyright restrictions on some of the photos.
Best of all Flickr is easy to browse and search, adding tags, or descriptors for the photo, is very easy.
This is the most useful site on the list for reference questions, so far, I think. Finding a good copyright-free photo is a fairly common request. From my searching (for example looking for keyword Savannah) there were plenty of well-done photographs to choose from; don't know whether the resolution would be high enough for publication.
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Re copyright, Flickr images have a copyright statement under "Additional information," but it doesn't jump out at you. The "all sizes" view has a more more visible statement on the lower left under the image. By default, images are "all rights reserved," but you can give individual pictures or all your pictures one of several creative commons licenses that will allow others to use your pictures with or without attribution for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
An added bonus is that you can restrict your searches to images with a creative commons license. The advanced search screen has the necessary checkboxes at the bottom of the screen.
Good to know, thanks!
Dear caro,
I am the owner from this shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zinnie/350590067/
My shot is not a 'good copyright-free photo', I have all rights reserved. It is not allowed to transmit this shot. This shot have no creative commons licenses.
If you want more information, please read here:
http://www.flickr.com/help/
Dear caro,
did you read and understood my comment?
I think not...
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