My love for Flickr

I just have to comment again on how great Flickr is.

Its such a simple interface and its so easy to organise all of your photos into sets and collections.

As mentioned in my first post, I have upgraded to the Pro version so I can have all the capabilities to upload all of my photos from the last 15 or so years. This is a huge undertaking and is still slowly happening.

I've started with my digital photos (I went digital in 2003) but have a huge backlog of photos pre-2003 that are currently in boxes. The project that we (my husband Martin has to do some of the load) is to put the best photos into albums (we have some really beautiful ones from Venice, Italy and from various spots in Nepal and India), store the negatives in a binder and then scan and upload them. Yes, a huge undertaking, but one that will be worth it when its done. Plus I can then remove the 5 boxes that are currently depressing me whenever I seem them in my sunroom.

I haven't really socialised much through it because I'm still very much in the process of getting them uploaded and then renaming them from pic3238 to something that makes sense. I'm also doing bulk uploads through a 3rd party app so I'm doing generalised tagging for each group so when I do an upload for eg a city, the tags are applying to everything that I have photos from for that city. Oh, and I also want to geotag them!

Such a big job, but the interface on Flickr makes this a bit easier.

Still I have had several invites to groups that vary in content from Pandas to Mt Ventoux to Domesticated Decorated Animals(!) so my tags can't be too far off.

I only know of one friend in the UK who uses Flickr as much as I do - she's very much a social mobile user and early adopter. Whenever I sign up to any new site, she's always beaten me to it!