An announcement about my photos

I’ve been mulling over this decision for some time. As I thought about it, I wanted to balance my desire to let people enjoy my photos with my very real need to retain the ability to sell my photographs, because I do want that to become a larger source of income for me than it [...]

Shoot first and ask questions later?

You probably don’t know that I also write for Photografr. Lately, I’ve been posting photos from among my Flickr faves there.
On Friday, I wanted to blog a photo that one of my contacts from Flickr, Andie Smith, had published. I noticed she didn’t have the “Blog This” button enabled on that photo, so I posted [...]

Photography, take two, part two

I continued to work on replacing photos hosted with third party services. The list of modified posts is provided below. This has proven to be a huge effort. I had to locate the photos in my digital library — not all of which is keyworded yet, though I’ve got location information for all my photos [...]

Photography, take two

Over this weekend and the last several days, I’ve gone through posts that contain photographs, and replaced all of the images with ones hosted directly at ComeAcross. In the past, I’ve used photos hosted with third party photo sharing services, and I realize now that’s a folly.
If a third party service goes down, which is [...]

How I handle contacts at Flickr

Many of you have added me as a contact at Flickr after you read my last post about Zooomr. You may also have noticed that I did not add you back. Please don’t think I’m ignoring you, but my contact strategy at Flickr is completely different from the one I used at Zooomr.
For one thing, [...]

Taking a break from Zooomr

For the last month or so, I’ve stayed away from uploading to my Zooomr stream. Now, I’ve decided to stop uploading altogether, at least for the present time. Why? Because I’m disappointed with the way things are going.

You may know me as a staunch supporter of Zooomr. I’ve blogged about it endlessly, and I’ve supported [...]

Choosing between Flickr, Zooomr and Picasa Web

A reader asked me yesterday what I thought of Flickr, Zooomr and Picasa Web. He’s been using Yahoo! Photos, and as you may have already heard, they’re shutting down and merging their photos with Flickr. Existing Yahoo! Photos users will get the option to transfer their photo library directly to Flickr, and new users are [...]

Why I turned off comments at Flickr

On June 8, 2007, I turned off comments on my photos at Flickr. Things had gotten out of hand. I’ve gotten a few emails about it since, so I thought I should explain why I did it.
I started using Flickr seriously in January of this year. At first, I was interested in seeing what people [...]

Flickr tightens up image security

Given my concern with image theft, I do not like to hear about Flickr or Zooomr hacks. A while back, a Flickr hack circulated around that allowed people to view an image’s full size even if the photographer didn’t allow it (provided the image was uploaded at high resolution.) The hack was based on Flickr’s [...]

How many of my photos were stolen?

For the moment, this is a rhetorical question. I’ve been re-thinking the way I publish my photos online in view of the recent and very prominent theft of Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir’s photos from Flickr. Call me naive, but I really believed, and still would like to believe, that people will wish to stay legal and pay [...]

What’s up with Zooomr’s Mark III?

Updated 10/29/2007: I’ve revised my opinion of Zooomr since I wrote this. See “Taking a break from Zooomr” for the details.
I’m sure we’re all waiting for Zooomr’s Mark III and wondering what’s going on with Kris. There have been a lot of questions floating in the air since Zooomr missed its scheduled launch [...]

More good things

Didn’t get a chance to post the review of the S9100 yet, and I spent most of the day on pins and needles waiting for MarkIII, but the 30D review unit arrived today and I got to play with it tonight. And, most importantly, I sold my first photo today. It was a direct sale. [...]