Park Life: stark staring
Experimenting with uploading my photographs to this site’s host instead of to the pretty poor service I’ve been getting from Flickr. For the geekily inclined, if I can get this to work well, my backroom will be merely the site’s CSS and my own hard drive, instead of being exposed to the vagaries and adhoc changeableness of an American conglomerate-run service managed by the greedy. My friend Chris is increasingly ascerbic about some of Flickr’s users, describing them as “a grim dictatorship of show-offs”. Whilst I think there’s a show-off in all of us photographers, at the same time, he does have a lovely way of putting these things.
So this is the beginning of my goodbye to the grim dictatorship that is Yahoo and all things Flickr. Since I’ve been using the service to host photographs since 2005, there’s a lot of untying to do, and much of the Dawdon and Swing Bridge websites will be impossible to disentagle, since other people’s photos are being shown there, but as much as can be gone from Flickr, will be gone in coming months. At some point soon I’ll write my list of whys and wherefores as a heed to the unwary.
The photograph is one from my recent series of photographs at Dalton Park. There are about 6 dusty, snowy photographs, and there will be another 6 or so sunny summery ones, when hopefully these spindly twigs will be in leaf. The project is ongoing though, and I’m going to start looking for partners to publish and show the work, possibly in an empty unit in the shopping centre there.
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need to get that ‘man in the white suit’ blog up next then too eh.
Good idea, yes. There’s a template knocking about as a subdomain to here, methinks. Ahhh: http://www.brendadada.net/whitesuit/
Feel free to sign up, opels…. we can move it to our own domain whenever we like, or when people get into it. A domain will be pennies.
Hmmm interested to hear the why’s and wherefore’s are you going to drop your flickr account completely?
Aha I found you …. lovely site Brendadada. And sorry to hear of your disillusionment with Flickr.
Once read a review in The Guardian - about 2 1/2 years ago - just a bit after I joined Ianyway - and the writer was talking about how exciting the place was. Innovative and leftie, thoughtful and witty etc. He said that these early discoverers would get fed up with the newbies when the flood comes.
I think it is inevitable that when the funky and off beat becomes mainstream, it can make you feel really disenfranchised.
Hello both, it’s grand to see you here. I need to get email alerts to comment replies fixed on here and we will be good to go, as they say.
Joolz, you are right, the early days were marvellous though, weren’t they? I have made friendships that hopefully will last, but I have also met some deeply avoidable users, albeit few, but enough. The illusion that one can see someone’s photos which therefore provides an insight into their persona seems good, but as with real life, it is easy to be decieved, and that’s awkward, especially when people can pinpoint pretty accurately where you live. Hmm..
S2, I’m not going to drop the account completely, not yet anyway. In the free acount give-away I found myself a paid-up Pro until December 2008 so I’ll be around until then, trying out various ’social’ photography subgroups etc, and trimming stuff so that by the end of the Pro account time I’ll just have a pared-down account that might link to a blog. That’s the plan, anyway. Alternatively, I might put all the Dawdon photos somewhere like photobox and use Flickr for alt process film, since there is a good solid community of film users on Flickr. Who knows.
I’m always interested to see new places that are like Flickr, blogging features-wise, but without the bleh that abounds in the community. But in any case, I will always be here. :)
btw, photobox has just been bought by Fox :(
edit: no it hasn’t, was getting it confused with photobucket. As you were, back to sleep all
Heh. Ipernity, eh? What do you all think?
Laura: knew I’d see you say it somewhere. Fox, you say? Dammnit, was just looking at Photobucket for some snapshot selling. Booo.