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"We offer scripts that enable you to import your photos from your Flickr account to your ipernity..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:15:23 +0200

“We offer scripts that enable you to import your photos from your Flickr account to your ipernity account. Scripts will be improved within the next few days.”

- ipernity: Welcome, Flickr friends! by Team ipernity

Now this is what I call showing incentive.

Ipernity is now on my shortlist along with 500px.

The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads | TechHive

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:54:00 +0200

The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads | TechHive:

Derek Powazek takes a good look at some of the points that have been annoying me about yesterday’s Flickr changes. Considering that I get to keep my Pro account for some unknown time period – and thus get stats, unlimited space and no ads for the very reasonable fee of $25 a year – it’s the design changes that bother me most.

The positive opinions I’ve been hearing seem to mostly come from people with large displays. On a 13” laptop I get a jumble of photos with too little negative space. I get a tiny photo on the photo’s actual page (smaller than the 500px photo of yore, way smaller than the nice 640px we had before the change) and if I click the photo to see it larger it’ll look like ass because of the resizing. That’s not new, though, photos always looked like ass on the view-on-black page. Only the pre-resized photos, like the two(!) “medium” sizes of 500px and 640px, ever looked good.

So, I’ve all my photos on a website that makes it very hard to enjoy them. I’ve a harder time seeing at a glance what interesting photos my contacts have uploaded and what “community action” (really, it’s just comments and such, but the community aspect, one of the reasons I enjoyed Flickr so much, seems to have a much diminished role on New Flickr) has been happening on my photos and photos I’ve commented on.

The sad bit is that I think I’ll probably keep paying for a Pro account as long as I can, despite not really wanting to upload any more photos to Flickr. 500px offers a Plus account that seems to have what matters and costs the same reasonable $25 a year as a Flickr Pro account. I’ll need to look around some more, though.

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:52:51 +0200

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:40:34 +0200

Picture 1 (by anna verlet shelton) You mad Flickr?

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:56:32 +0200

Picture 1 (by anna verlet shelton)

You mad Flickr?

inspiringdavid: David Luraschi

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:34 +0200

inspiringdavid:

David Luraschi

kukkurovaca: So, yes, we all know Yahoo is terrible and stupid, but...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:18:35 +0200

kukkurovaca: So, yes, we all know Yahoo is terrible and stupid, but...:

kukkurovaca:

Tell me, which do you think is a more functional, reliable web service: Tumblr or Flickr? (Hint: It’s definitely, definitely Flickr.)

Now, I know a lot of people are disappointed with the way Flickr has stagnated under Yahoo, and there are plenty of problems with it. But Tumblr is a…

Again, say what you want about Flickr, but at least it works. I love Tumblr, but Tumblr probably deserves more jokes poked at it for features not working than Flickr deserves for not evolving things.

Carne asada, motherfuckers.

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:23:53 +0200

Carne asada, motherfuckers.

forwhenifeellikesharing: Welp. Anyone else anticipate some “we...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:20:16 +0200

forwhenifeellikesharing:

Welp. Anyone else anticipate some “we own the rights to the stuff you post now” bull-ish to arise from this?

I dunno. Yahoo! They’re the guys who own Flickr. Say what you want about Flickr (and, yes, I’ll make jokes about Flickr, but I still love it dearly) and I can’t remember a single rights grab controversy about Twitter. Unlike most any big social site on the web.

I’m nothing if not thorough. A good man. And thorough.

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:14 +0200

I’m nothing if not thorough. A good man. And thorough.

"And I’d cry over my tortilla chips. Oh, how I’d cry over my tortilla chips."

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:36:09 +0200

“And I’d cry over my tortilla chips. Oh, how I’d cry over my tortilla chips.”

- Pico de Gallo and Guacamole | The Pioneer Woman Cooks | Ree Drummond

I rather enjoy this food blog. Try the shrimp tacos.

Paul Pin2 Snabba Cash (by Paul Pinto) I’ve posted this...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:36:40 +0200

Paul Pin2 Snabba Cash (by Paul Pinto)

I’ve posted this before, but it’s classic and should be reposted every once in a while. It’s gangsta rap, Stockholm style.

it’s hidden in the rocker panels (by Mightyhorse) My...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:31:21 +0200

it’s hidden in the rocker panels (by Mightyhorse)

My friend Mightyhorse.

Misfits-Nice cock (by Zer0First1) Toilet étiquette: don’t...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:27:31 +0200

Misfits-Nice cock (by Zer0First1)

Toilet étiquette: don’t compliment your co-urinator on his cock.

Marie: We went to get a phone and we got a phone.

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:00 +0200

Marie: We went to get a phone and we got a phone.
Me: That sounds like a 2000s era Smiths song.
Me: [singing]I was looking for a phone and I bought a phone and heavens know I'm miserable now.[/singing]
Youngest Lad: Jesus. Get a life.

Oh, great, I suspect an error. Eh, whatever.

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:54:55 +0200

Oh, great, I suspect an error. Eh, whatever.

Trust me to get distracted when looking for a cheap, old beater.

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:45 +0200

Trust me to get distracted when looking for a cheap, old beater.

Let’s get this show on the road.

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:09:59 +0200

Let’s get this show on the road.

Guest Photographers or: Why You Should Have an Unplugged Wedding

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:29:42 +0200

Guest Photographers or: Why You Should Have an Unplugged Wedding:

I’m tempted to say that the title is wrong and that it should be “Why you shouldn’t have friends who have no manners”.

When my mother got married, she asked me to take a lot of photos during the reception. They had hired a photographer, but he wasn’t going to stay for the duration. I can’t remember either of us getting in each other’s way (well, maybe he’s cursing over the back of my head being in every shot?) but neither do I remember anyone ever getting in my way while I was snapping photos. It may have helped that my weapon of choice for most of the candids was a 20mm (on APS-C) lens. Need to stay close.

Anyway, when I’m taking photos at some sort of an event, and I’m not the event’s photographer, I try to show a bit of consideration for people around me. It may help, in my case, that I generally don’t shoot photos just to have a photo of something happening (unless asked to).

Also, unplugged wedding? Yeah, with Ms. Social Media and Mr. Raging Internet Addict that’s not going to happen.

(via Chimpanzee’s Photographs Set to Fetch Over $100,000...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:56:45 +0200

(via Chimpanzee’s Photographs Set to Fetch Over $100,000 At Auction)

Don’t complain about your camera being too difficult to operate.