The election is coming! Can being a Flickr-contact help you win?

Sorry about the cheesy title. Chris suggested it. And, well, I love the cheese. So it stuck.
I’ve not been around the blog lately. But not because I haven’t had any photos to post. I think it’s quite the opposite. I jumped into a personal challenge for 2008 with A Year Of Pictures over at Flickr, [...]

What is a bokeh, and why would you want to create it in your images? The term comes from the Japanese word that means “blur” or “fuzzy” and refers to the out-of-focus area in a photograph. Some definitions of the term say this blurry area in your photo is created by camera lens. I’m here [...]

Ever since I took a photo every day for a whole month in March, I can’t help but look at everything in a new way. I learned so much about myself and my photography through that whole process, a few of which I will share with you today. Here are three things I [...]

We went away for a couple days, and I’m trying to take a little break from everything. But I’m proud of myself for still sticking with the 30 Day Photo Challenge. I’ve not been known in the past to be great at completing any photo challenges I’ve joined, but I’m determined to be a [...]

So I’m over half-way through the Photo A Day challenge from DP Blogs — one photo every day for the month of March — and I have to say, I’m really into it this year. I have entered many photography challenges over the past year, none of which I have finished. But I’m sticking to [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot of Flickr sets. And I’m sure you created them, like me, as a quick and easy way for people to view particular groups of your photos. Well, I just found out about a way to make viewing photosets one step easier and more convenient: the “detail view.”
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Have you gotten at all into the Flickr Mapping rage? If Flickr wasn’t already great for exploring photos by tag, photographer, time or group, for the past few months you’ve been able to explore photos by the actual place they were taken. It’s a cool concept and one that, I have to admit, I’ve only [...]