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I had been returning from an errand, my camera at my side when our paths crossed in downtown Ottawa, myself and this young man. Ben posed for my camera graciously. Thanks, dude!
Great Look! Cheers!
.Flickr rates these as my top 200 most interesting images HERE: www.flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/popular-interesting/
The Flickr Lounge-One Subject, Two Ways.
I was happy that my lens was fast enough to catch the Jay flying by.
1. waiting on....Holiday Open House, 2. itisfuntopeek, 3. Royalty Necklace, 4. Bella Crown, 5. the queen, 6. Vintage Bottle Embelished with Florals & more.., 7. favourite floral enamel jug and flowers, 8. paper cake~christmas red, 9. on etsy today, 10. Queen, 11. Untitled, 12. bracelet set 2, 13. Trinket boxes, 14. rosettes made with paper punch., 15. Untitled, 16. Untitled, 17. creped and glittered, 18. Marie Antoinette Round Robin Pages, 19. Marie Antoinette Round Robin Pages, 20. German crepe paper and the sweetest gold foil dresden bunny tag from my lovely friend Carol!, 21. custom soldered " The Well Read Raven" pendant from Carol!!!, 22. custom soldered " Charlotte " pendant from Carol!!!, 23. Seaside garden, 24. altered art ?, 25. Baby Blue Shabby Chic Christmas Stocking, 26. Recent Finds, 27. Marie Antoinette collage, 28. Untitled, 29. Tea Party Photos, 30. Tea Party Photos, 31. Sis Boom Stocking, 32. Marie Antoinette Optical pendant, 33. Studio shelf, 34. See the Birds Fly, 35. jack on the box, 36. Se'jour & Visite
Yesterday, 27 May 2019 - one of the new problems on Flickr today is having comments and faves not appear. If you get a first comment or make a first comment on someone else's photo, that comment will disappear. The comment is listed under the "bell", but does not appear under the photo. The "bell" stated that I had a comment under each of the five photos I posted today. These were the first comments to be made. Two of the comments stayed, but there was no sign of the other three. The same with faves - some show up, others don't. Other people are having the same problem and have reported it to the Help Forum.
On 23 May 2019, Flickr was unusable and some of the channels on TV were also not working. Combined, these two things made me decide that enough is enough, and that I needed to go for a short drive.
My first stop was at a local pond in the city, where I enjoyed seeing this Lesser Scaup, a Coot, Mallards, and a Common Grackle or two. It was also fun to come across a small group of children with their "care-givers". I identified a Coot for them and told them that it was not a duck and that their babies were so ugly that they were very, very cute. I did see one Red-necked Grebe swimming, but I didn't venture further along the path as I zoomed in on two Police officers checking out a parked car along the pathway.
After spending a bit of time at this location, I drove westwards to my "usual" area, wondering if I would see Mountain Bluebirds and a Snipe. I was in luck with both. This is the area that my small "team" covers for the annual May Species Count, so I was curious as to what I/we might see. The 23rd annual Count took place the day before yesterday, on 26 May. The weather was good (3C - 17C) - no sign of the rain that we've been getting on far too many days recently. However we desperately need the moisture. There are already wild fires in Alberta and the number will only increase over the summer. It is supposed to be another bad summer with fires and smoke.
There were nine of us on the May Species Count, travelling in two cars. We were out for 7 hours, travelling 52 km in our Count area, and saw 66 bird species. I will add the list of species in a comment box below so that I will be able to look back in a year's time and remind myself of what we saw in 2019.
in case you missed it I'm on the Flickr Blog at the moment :) blog.flickr.net/en/2019/07/24/catherine-macbrides-photo-a...
If you are arriving here today because of the blog Hello! you might find your way round a little easier heading to my Albums www.flickr.com/photos/catmacbride/albums
Protest against the Flickr Beta Version
Please read the forum Flickr Photo Page Beta
This petition against flickr's changes. Please sign it .. I have signed it.
"There are currently 5,429 signatures (11:55 h). NEW goal - We need 7,500 signatures!"
Update: There are currently 6,493 signatures. (18:41 h)
Update: There are currently 7,226 signatures. (23.00 h)
I get the following from my friend Elke (El2deepblue) :
Here you will find his screenshots and descriptions of the Beta Version:
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222492725/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222574753/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222416476/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222355855/in/photos...
Many thanks to my dear friend Fifichat (Francoise)- here you will find many informations in FRENCH and ENGLISH:
www.flickr.com/photos/fifichat/11210141286/
Quotation Francoise:"*I specify for those who haven't seen the Beta page;that there is NO white area under the pictures for descriptions / comments / invitations / flickr Award Counter
Only a narrow sidebar to the right of the image ,showing ONLY the last 4 comments
White print on a black and depressive background, that hurts the eyes
No sense. Hard to write comments exceeding 2 or 3 words
We can't see who faved our pictures
We can't see the groups the pictures appear in ( except only 8 )
Awards images. are not shown in comments
Admin-Invitations are not displayed ( the last ones are visible ONLY in "Recent Activity").The oldest are lost
For admins , group management will become a work more and more difficult or even impossible
Some groups might close......and groups add visibility to our pictures
They allow us to admire beautiful works and to meet with great photographers"
Our descriptions including quotes or links to YouTube or other sites are hidden
NO LONGER ANY CONVIVIALITY.. ANY VISIBILITY . NO SENSE
In fact this layout specifically targets tablets and smartphones
Unfortunately everything we can do seems absolutely useless ....
Yahoo and Flickr don't care
Unfortunately it is obvious that Yahoo wants to turn Flickr into another social network for people (mainly teens and young ) using only tablets and smartphones and whose only interaction is Hi or Lol
Motivated photographers still using computers (with photo-softwares) and large screens are no longer desirable customers....
( nor groups since our invitations are only visible on our "Recent Activity" Page....The oldest are lost ....and everything is done to impede their functioning)
Advertising is much much more lucrative than our Pro accounts .......
How many people know what represents the Beta Page ?? I wonder ?
Only some users of the English version of Flickr ..... but not all of them
Users of any other language have not been informed.... amazing No ??"
All this is very discouraging " ****End quotation Francoise***
I use frequently the English version and realized (or I'm blind) that there is NO word, discussion or forum about the upcoming change in German.
Therefore a translation in German about the upcoming changes.
DEUTSCH:
Liebe Flickr Freunde,
Seit vielen Wochen verfolgen wir die Informationen und Links von Freunden, die der neuen, bald kommenden Beta-Version als 'Tester" "ausgeliefert" waren oder Diskussionen in den Englischen Foren.
Wie ich eben festgestellt habe, findet sich keinerlei Hinweis, Erklärung oder Diskussion auf der deutschen Flickr-Version.
Aufgrund einiger Anfragen unter dem Deutschen "Black Day" - Foto deshalb hier einige Erklärungen in Deutsch für diejenigen, die die geplante auf uns zukommende Beta-Version nicht kennen.
Zunächst die Screenshots von Anuij Nair mit entsprechenden Erkärungen:
Here you will find screenshots and descriptions of the Beta Version:
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222492725/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222574753/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222416476/in/photos...
www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11222355855/in/photos...
Es macht überhaupt keinen Sinn, die Augen davor zu verschliessen, dass mit der
geplanten Beta Version einschneidende Einschänkungen auf uns zukommen.
Wir hoffen, durch Protest mit "Flickr's schwarzem Tag" doch noch etwas erreichen zu können.
Bitte, ladet Euch das Foto oben auf Eure "eigenen Fotos" hoch und postet es entweder morgen als Information UND in jedem Fall am Sonntag auf Euerm Fotostream, ohne weitere Fotos an diesem Tag hochzuladen.
Die Einschränkungen sind gravierend:
Es wird keinen weißen Raum mehr unter unseren Fotos geben, der Platz für
einen Titel, eine Beschreibung des Fotos oder einen Link (Youtube etc.-Musik) zulassen wird.
Es wird nur einen schmalen shwarzen Streifen mit weissen Buchstaben neben dem Bild geben,
der den Augen wehtut. Darauf sind ALLE Möglichkeiten, zu interagieren zusammengepfercht.
Ein Kommentar wird sich auf 2-3 Worte begnügen müssen.
Maximal 4 Kommentare werden sichtbar sein,
Wir werden nicht sehen können, wer unser Foto gefavt hat.
Nur 8 von den Gruppen, in denen unsere Fotos zu sehen sind,
werden sichtbar sein.
Admin-Einladungen zu Gruppen werden nicht mehr sichtbar sein,
wir müssen sie unter "letzte Aktivität" suchen.
Sie werden nach einiger Zeit nicht mehr zu sehen sein.
Schlimm sowohl für Mitglieder als auch Moderatoren von Gruppen.
Es macht die Arbeit schier unmöglich.
Das Gruppenlogo wird nicht mehr zu sehen sein, lediglich det Text.
(auch bei Award Codes).
"Es scheint offensichtlich, dass Yahoo Flickr in ein anderes soziales Netzwerk für Tablets- and Smartphones-Nutzer
umwandeln möchte, die "Hi" oder "LOL" als Kommentar benutzen und von Foto zu Foto eilen.
Werbung ist wichtiger geworden." Zitat Forum.
Enjoy a fun trip through shapes and and bends. Share your shot with us and get the chance to be featured on FlickrBlog next week.
Nur noch ein paar Tage bis zum nächsten Flickr-Treffen in Leipzig! Ich freu mich! Jetzt gelten die nächsten Tage der Kamera-Vorbereitung und der Entscheidung übers Equipment.
A few days left until the next Flickr meet up in Leipzig. I´m really looking forward to meet all these crazy lovely people! Now it is about preparing the camera and make some decisions about what equipment to take on this trip.
Galeria de Marissa Mayer (Directora ejecutiva de Yahoo, empresa propietaria de Flickr)
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Day 99/365 - Didn't have much time today I was gone all day. I had some left over Gerbera daisies from the shoot with Jamie and Kayla so I thought I would take advantage of that.
No uploads
No comments
No favourites
No clicks
No activity
So many clicks to find what you want, black side bar crammed with 'stuff', group discussions 'hidden' and a lot of social interaction missing.
Not sure this protest will have any more influence on things than the previous ones but got to give it a try.
"The race was on to find other areas of search where we could build a commanding lead," says one high ranking Yahoo executive familiar with the deal.
Flickr offered a way to do that. Because Flickr photos were tagged and labeled and categorized so efficiently by users, they were highly searchable.
"That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn't give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users."
And that was the problem. At the time, the Web was rapidly becoming more social, and Flickr was at the forefront of that movement. It was all about groups and comments and identifying people as contacts, friends or family. To Yahoo, it was just a fucking database.
"I spent years at Yahoo trying to signal the alarm that Facebook was going to take over the adult market unless we stepped in and used our existing social networks to fight back," laments one former Yahoo engineer who worked on products at both the parent company and Flickr. "Obviously this never went anywhere for a multitude of reasons."
If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage pipe, covering everything it comes in contact with in watered-down shit.
Picture and text from:
gizmodo.com/flashback-how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-th...
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And it's now happening all over again, as the yesterday's massive flickrape of paying customers,
and this discussion, conceived in its wake clearly shows...
Even the newspapers have raised their brows to the enormous backlash from Flickr users.
Everyone's gotta have a flickr tribute and here's mine.
I did this in the dark with a glowstick not seeing what I was doing at all. This of course was backwards in the image from the camera's perspective so I simply had to do a flip horizontal and voila.
BTW : My wife is laughing over my shoulder saying my regular handwritting isn't this good. ;-)
I take the chance to say thank you to the flickr community! Your photography is an incredible source of inspiration to me and I enjoy every single shot of it. I am honoured 50 people follow me now! Keep up the good spirit :)
Peace & Love!
Visualization of Flickr geotagged photos, uploaded between 2007 to 2015 and geotagged with the highest accuracy (street-level). I generated a number of different visualizations.
Here is an animated version of this map
Created as part of my research project (maps.alexanderdunkel.com).
Just for fun :-)
© Pascal Rouen. All rights reserved
Please don't use this shot on websites, blogs or other media.
model: me
Happy Valentine's Day! :)
Ezúton is nagyon-nagyon Boldog Születésnapot szeretnék kÃvánni barátnÅ‘mnek, Krisztinek! :) (tudd, hogy mindig számÃthatsz rám és hogy nagyon fontos barát vagy nekem <3)
texture FREE for non commercial use in your personal artwork...
if you use this texture, please credit me with a link back to this texture...!!!
I would love to see your work, please leave a link or a sample of your work here as a comment, thx...!!!
please do not re-distribute this texture as your own...!!!
image from www.flickr.com/photos/110293295@N04/11147629795/
dear Flickr, we have some really good, caring communities here -- please, please don't mess that up! I have adjusted to the previous changes even though I still do not like them like the old flickr. Please don't make things even harder to use!
With descriptions curtailed and comments effectively hidden most of my stuff is going to be pretty pointless being posted here.
In the run up to the anniversary of the out-break of WW1, I was particularly looking to give the individuals on Norfolk War Memorials something more than just a name by telling a bit more of their life stories.
I've flounced from Flickr before when they made changes, was miserable for a couple of months that I couldn't find anything better and then came back when I discovered they had quietly undone many of the bad changes - well apart from having titles under pictures that is:-0.
When the changes were made earlier this year I was hoping something similar might happen but it looks like its going to get worse.
BTW Flickr, my tech-savvy kids with Windows 8, newer computers and ipads and softphones occasionally end up on Flickr from an internet search, say this is c**p as they have the typical attention span of their generation, and scoot of somewhere else.
Its not just us old foggies on XP who are hacked off :-)
****This frame was chosen on March 26th 2013 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE(Highest Ranking: # 355) . Explore is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful.
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****** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on June 28th 2012
CREATIVE RF gty.im/ 173395476
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Photograph taken at 10:57am on Saturday 9th March 2013 off the A5 and A4086 at Llynnau Mymbyr (also known as the Capel Curig lakes), two lakes located in Dyffryn Mymbyr, a valley running from the village of Capel Curig to the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel in Snowdonia, north-west Wales.
This is actually a single lake originally called Llyn Mymbyr, with a maximum depth of 30 feet and three quarters of a mile in length with a delta that has built up midway along the north shore, hence the plural name. The river feeding the lakes is the Nantygwryd (or Nant-y-gwryd), which has its source at Llyn Cwm-y-ffynnon, also marked on maps as the Nant Gwryd, which is a tributary of the Afon Llugwy. The two rivers join at Capel Curig.
Nikon D800 24mm 1/100s f/10.0 iso200 Mirror Up
RAW (14-bit)
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Manfrotto 327RC2 Grip action ball head. Sandisc 32GB Ultra Class 10 30MB/s SDHC Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit. Matin DL-6399 All weather protective/insulated rain cover.
LATITUDE: N 53d 6m 6.42s
LONGITUDE: W 3d 55m 8.78s
ALTITUDE: 195.0m
RAW (FINE) FILE: 103.0MB
PROCESSED FILE: 33.05MB