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March 6th, 2009
In the interest of fairness, and to show I’m not a totally biased Flickr-hating jerk, I have created a Flickr account and am prepared to give it a fair shake – not as place to better my craft or give my images the best home possible, but in the interest of community and the hope that it’ll introduce me to some new folks. See? I’m no Flickr hater – I just think it’s a tool best used for certain things. Anyways, if you’re there already, share the loving cause I have no friends and I feel like I did in grade 7 at the year-end dance – all dressed up and sitting awkardly on the sidelines. But way less acne this time around. You’ll find me there as David duChemin. (Unless you’re name is Alison and we went to school together – in which case, you had your chance. (Some wounds just never heal…) 
THIS link ought to get you there.
I don’t have many friends on Flickr either, you can find me here http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigdamlo/
But… but… I cancelled my Flickr account after yesterday’s post!
I only have two friends, plus PBS Nature, and now you David!
I only use Flickr for submitting to Shutter Sisters – a community of women photographers. I’m not a Flickr lover, but not really a hater, either. I certainly wouldn’t direct anybody there to look at my work.
Boy, David, you don’t waste any time! You’ve uploaded a lot of images already. I’ll take a look when I’m not on company time.
Welcome big D. Just added you as a contact on Flickr. Glad you’re giving it a chance.
Cool David! Glad to add ya.
Flickr, it seems, is a good place for unsavory characters to harvest photos of talented artists. And it cannot be used to promote oneself. In other words, don’t put links to your website or blog in any photos you upload or lead people to your Flickr profile page where you might have your links. Admittedly, my bad for not reading through the “rules and regs” which ultimately lead to a wrist slapping and a threat to be put on moderate.
Flickr is bloated and slow as blazes or whatever the opposite of blazes is. Molasses. Slow as molasses.
Gee, does that sound like I don’t like it so much?
Gale – Sounds like this is going to be as much as a paper cut.
Can hardly wait. So we’ll see. Can you elaborate on “unsavory characters harvesting photos of talented artists”? Is there a seedy underside to all this I should be aware of?
I just added photos to Flickr and can’t wait for the wrist slapping that Gale mentioned – I put links in all of my descriptions… oh well – I’m not removing them until they direct me to do so…
If you like my work please friend me if you are there…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndeckerphotography/
Hey, John, let me know how that goes for you. I promise, I won’t rat you out
David, do a quick google search for “photos stolen from Flickr” and you’ll pull up lots of results where bands of unsavories looted and pillaged and heaven knows what else. Well, you’ll see when you do the search.
Granted, any time one puts their work out on the web there is a chance that someone is going to come along and pilfer it, but at least you can put in some safeguards on your own website or gallery.
Food for thought: http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/07/07/how-every-flickr-photo-ended-up-on-sale-this-weekend/
Okay, ’nuff said. I’ll pop a band-aid in the mail to you.
dude…my jaw is still hanging open
still liked the “rubber chicken guy” lurk but good that you are out in the open now. ha.
and…..i’m sure glad i’m not Alison!!!
nice that you are willing to put up with a somewhat nasty taste in your mouth for the sake of community. hat tip.
I highly recommend having a look through:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/mahonyweb/favorites/
My Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahonyweb/
Some travel photographers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchellk/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nygus/
There are loads more, but I’m currently in a rush
Gale, any image you put on the internet, whether it be on Flickr or any other photo website can be stolen or used for other purposes then you intended. If we constantly worried about our content being used, we’d never share it.
I’ve dealt with people taking screenshots of my work and posting them all over Facebook. Do I think that either the flash gallery I use is bad or that Facebook is bad? No. You have to weigh the risks and rewards, and the rewards far outweigh the risks of displaying your work for others to see.
just my two pennies.
Hey David, your Flickring is all wrong:) If you want to get the most out of your Flickr stream you have to post one photo at a time. Then you give people enough time to see the image, favourite it and comment, then you can get on “Explore” and that really exposes your image to the Flickr world. I’m sure there’s plenty of info on how to get the most out of your Flickr stream out there. The whole thing is like a pointless game:). But at times someone not so useless may see your images and that can lead to good things. There are a few Flickr success stories. Search for Miss Aniela (if you haven’t heard of her already). Many “serious” photographers have a Flickr account too. One that might be close to our hearts is Eric Lafforgue, search for him there.
Personally I haven’t made a cent from Flickr and it is true that people constantly want to take your images for free (just watermark them). But you can certainly generate traffic. I haven’t posted an image on Flickr for months and I still get people commenting, favouriting etc. almost daily. There is definetely potential in that and plenty of the users are very talented fellow photogs from around the world. It’s a great tool for networking, as you are already aware.
Anyway, I’ve added you as a contact:)
Happy Flickring:)
I use Flikr to be involved with a local group of photographers here in Detroit.
We have online discussions, local excursions gallery shows and share some photos. It works pretty good for that sort of thing.
Too funny David….I’ve not touched my flickr account in over a year. Found it a waste of time really, but hey, I could relate to your friendless situation too keenly and so added you to my friends list…I hope it’s a balm for those old wounds.
Heh, good for you. Off to make you a contact (although you probably won’t recognize me.
One more contact, coming up…
David:
I started with flickr a bit over a year ago as a bit of a lark. I then kinda let it laspe, as it’s not really meant to be a business thing, but if you want / like to share photos, it’s a fun place.
Always watermark your photos to deter thieves, and make sure to mark as All Rights Reseved. –
I just got back to posting again on flickr a month or so ago, before throwing myself off a cliff by accident. One of the recent photos I posted came in at #1 on Explore and was seen nearly 5,000 times over the course of a few days.
my stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enlightphoto
I’ll add you as a contact.
Cheers & have fun,
- Gary
I agree that flickr is a poor home for images. There is also an enormous ratio of crap to quality which makes it difficult to appreciate. My main reason to run an account is to interview my favourite landscape photographers on my group Mountain Light.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/mountainlight/
I’m a big fan of flickr, have about 12k images stored on there (mostly private or for friends/family acces).
Though I agree completely it’s not much use as an official portfolio.
I have a project (currently on hold in-dev) to try and work around this so I (and others) can use flickr as a portfolio. http://www.portfolir.com
I’m surprised there aren’t more of these around. Really need to get back to it sort out it’s problems