From flowers to shoeboxes...

Here are some shots from my garden. What a great way to share them with everyone and for me to enjoy when I can't be there.

The Flickr exercises this week are certainly fun. I can't believe how many images are stored on the Flickr site. While I was working on my pictures I noticed a message that said "2,970 images have been loaded in the last minute" In one minute! That's insane!

The many applications are neat and I'm sure people are finding some very interesting ways to apply them. Being someone who likes to organize and sort things I have created 'sets' for my pictures but found out tonight that unless you sign up (i.e. pay) for the Pro account you can only have 3 sets. I'll have to think about it as I already have a very good program for organizing my digital photos - Memory Manager by Creative Memories.


One of the features I like is the Flickr badge that enables a random assortment of your pictures to display on a blog, website or other web location. Have a look. It's at the bottom of this page and was very easy to create.

One of my real problems with digital images is that people are not printing their photos anymore. As a scrapbooker the concern used to be getting pictures out of shoeboxes in closets and into scrapbooks. Our computers have become the new shoeboxes but unlike the box in the closet, your images might not be available when you need them - unless, of course, you have them backed up. And I know we all do that on a regular basis ; )