Ten years of digital photography
Sep
Today I finally signed up for a pro Flickr account. Why hadn’t I done this sooner? Well, up until now, I’ve managed to convince myself that, because I own my own servers, I should probably just use of of them. Of course, as a developer, it shouldn’t be too hard to write some kind of flickr like gallery system, and I’d be up and running in no time.
In reality of course, this just didn’t happen. After losing my ipod (which doubled up as portable storage for a number of my photo albums) over the weekend, and realising that I’d be pretty distraught if I lost my photos, I decided that it’d be a good time to invest in a flickr account.
Once I did this though, I suddenly realised that I’d need to get uploading. It’s taken my roughly 12 hours, but I’ve almost managed to scrape together around 10gb of photos dating back to ‘98 (no easy task considering that they were scattered over 8 harddisks, some of which hadn’t been used in a long time…).
The realisation that I should have a) named my images in a sensible fashion, and b) removed a lot of the badly composed, badly lit, duplicates and frankly just utter shit photos has finally dawned on me. Looks like I’ll be spending another weekend doing just that soon.
Of course, I couldn’t possibly end without plugging the new flickr account, so here it is in all its shiny web 2.0 glory.
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October 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
How’s that flickr pro account working out for you? Unlimited storage seems like a great deal for backup purposes.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Very well thanks Dan! The only downside so far has been trying to organise the ludicrous amount of photos into something usable, and of course, then upload all 11gb.
Currently I’m producing photos faster than I’m uploading.
October 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
This damn thing didn’t alert me to your reply. You’d think if it’s going to ask for an email address it would do something useful with it. Anyway, thanks, I might give it a go.