Wednesday, September 26, 2007

#5 Flickr

This is a beautiful flowing gum, taken in Halls Gap last year. I have 'blogged' it from my flickr account.

I LOVE Flickr! This is where I fell off the wagon in my first attempt to complete the 23 things. I fell in love with flickr and spent so much time exploring it that I got left behind.

I love to be able to share my photos with my family and friends and in the past clogged up their email boxes with photos that I thought they must see. At first I had reservations about the usefulness of flickr because I am not comfortable putting photos of people on the internet for anybody to view, and initially I thought that if I made them private the only way for family and friends to see them would be for them to sign up to flickr as well - which is fine if they want to, but not everyone wants to.

Now I have discovered Guest Passes. I create a 'set' of the photos I want to share and then create a link to those photos using the guest pass. I can then email the link to anyone I want to see the photos - only people who are sent the link can view them and they can only see the photos in that particular set, so it maintains privacy. The link remains 'live' for as long as I want . When I think everyone has finished looking at them and saving any they want, then I 'expire' the link. It's wonderful!

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