After reading my Photographic Frustration entry, you're probably thinking to yourself "How can I share in Joey's frustration?"

Fortunately, there is a way. I've signed up for flickr, which allows you to share photos. It has a bunch of interesting features, such as the ability to collectively label and comment on photos. Right now, I've set up most of my photos as "public," meaning that anyone in the world can see them. (Flickr also allows you to have photos that only friends and/or family can see.)

You can view my public photos, but if you want to be notified whenever I put a new photo up, you can use the Atom feed. (I access all of my feeds through Thunderbird.)

Flickr is a rather interesting service; I liked it so much I signed up for the "pro" plan for a year, even though it is still in beta. I particularly like that you can download the full-size original files (if the person is on the "pro" plan) and also that you can license your photos using Creative Commons (which tells other people whether and how they can use your photos; currently, all of my photos are licensed as Attribution/Share-Alike, which means that people can do whatever they want with my photos as long as they give me credit and allow anyone to do the same with the resulting product.

Who knows whether flickr will be around in a year or five or ten. (It's for this reason that I'm leery of posting images on my website/blog directly from flickr, even though that is one of its useful features.) Right now, though, it is something fun to play around with.

photography flickr creative+commons