Comments on: The aptly named Flickr

By: djaef

djaef — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:30:01 +0000

The theme is called Atahualpa.

By: Furniture Store in Jackson

Furniture Store in Jackson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:57:05 +0000

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By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:19:25 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time at Flickr since I wrote this post, and I certainly have had my eyes open to the diamonds amongst the chaff. But my main point against Flickr is not so much with the photography, but with the way people use comments to get people to join their groups. You know – This is a fabulous shot and has been chosen to join the 20 best photographs of all time group… This is invariably highlighted by a massive icon of a gold cup or something similarly impressive. I have a friend who is almost pathologically needy in terms of praise required for their photography, and for people like that, flickr is the best thing since sliced bread. Whether they are good photographers is not the point (my friend happens to be very good), but it’s the social behaviour I find so disturbing. Also as a photographer, some people link their picture to up to 50 groups to get it seen as much as possible. Argghhh, it makes my skin crawl just to think of it.

But yes, there is a lot of great photography on there, and lately I am finding a lot of it without looking or worrying about the disturbing aspects of the site.

By: richard

richard — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:19:16 +0000

Apropos Flickr and internet photo sites, this post on “The Online Photographer” is interesting.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2007/10/how-to-use-flic.html

Kind of confirms my notion that they are all much of a muchness at the end of the day. The only thing Flickr has is that it’s unrestricted, meaning that, as this post indicates, you can choose which images/photographers you are interested in. The post also alerted me to many great portfolios on Flickr – something I’d always known, but keep forgetting. I think alot of photographers realise that whatever you think of Flickr it’s maybe one of those options you shouldn’t ignore if you want to get your work noticed. At the end of the day it’s really a huge link exchange. Still not much hope of in-depth critique though.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:20:23 +0000

Nicely written Geoff – and that’s not just a pat on the back

I think there still are a lot of people who look at images and think about them. However they probably feel swamped by the overwhelming preponderance of sites like Flickr. The shame is that the internet is a great medium in which to get the sort of critique you want. The sort of thing you had to go and sit in on panels at photographic societies every once in a blue moon to get.

The key is to get people talking about photos, debating.