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Marilyn Rushton, a well-known Burnaby citizen, is awarded with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship.
Rushton is honoured for her for inspirational life of service to the visually impaired community, her contributions to families with blind and visually impaired children, and her energetic support for the musical community.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0025-001407
today's assignment: Leave something out today. Be visually brief. Shoot tight. Make a photo that's direct and to the point.
MEDITATION
Introduction
•Meditation is an affair that can't be depicted, pretty much as hues can't be portrayed to a visually impaired individual.
•Meditation is impossible, as it simply happens and that is the reason no one can educate however can simply direct towards it.
• The thoughtful state rises above all impediments. In it there is neither past nor future, yet just the awareness of present on the picked subject. This cognizance is conceivable just when all the mental waves are stilled and the brain stops to exist. Contemplation is a condition of achieving unadulterated awareness.
•As water takes the state of its holder, the psyche when it mulls over an item, is changed into the state of that question.
•The undisturbed stream of thought on the subject decided for contemplation.
Definition
•Tatra pratyaya ekatanata dhyanam (second sutra of vibhuti pada)
•Tatra= spots of contemplation,
•Pratyaya= going towards, firm conviction
•Ekatanata = continous, continuous stream of mindfulness
•Dhyanam= reflection, significant examination.
•A relentless consistent stream of consideration coordinated towards the same point or locale is called reflection
•The force of consideration in the field of awareness neither adjusts nor falters, staying as steady, smooth and consistent as oil pouring from a container.
Instruments of Meditation
•Moving internal, through the measurements: We live in a three dimensional world, yet amid the procedure of reflection, we deliberately move from 3, to 2, to 1 measurement. This is a better significance of making the psyche centered, or one-pointed (ekagra). In the event that your coherent personality comprehends the procedure, then it is much simpler to do your practice efficiently, and to all the more profoundly experience the advantages.
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The guided tour shows visually impaired and blind people the manifold connections between art and technology.
Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Visually Goose Fair is adorned with amazing artwork which possibly gets overlooked. In 2022 I created a short video focusing on it, check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix1jE9Nt80
These series of photos were taken 28 Sept 2023, the day before the official opening of the fair. People were busy making final adjustments to rides, checking electrics, stock of foods, drinks, gifts and so on.
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2023, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days.
Album: Goose Fair. Nottingham
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Mintage: 12,995
The 1846-C is the second rarest Charlotte half eagle and the fourth rarest (of 24 issues) in high grades. I am aware of five to seven known in Uncirculated and this number includes three very nice examples: the Eliasberg coin (graded MS65 by NGC but see below), the Milas coin (graded MS63 by NGC) and this new discovery.
The present coin was discovered in the Fall of 2012. This coin is incredibly fresh in appearance with lovely deep green-gold color and thick, frosty luster. It is obviously original with no signs of having been touched since it was struck and it is one of the most visually appealing branch mint gold coins of this era that I have seen. The strike is razor sharp, the surfaces are vibrant and clean and really the only thing keeping it from grading MS65 is a small contact mark on the back of Liberty's neck.
I could go on and on about this coin but the pictures speak a thousand words. It is rare, it is superb and it is fresh; a pretty unbeatable combination its today's high-end coin market.
This is the only MS64 example of this date to have been approved by CAC with none finer.
On October 15, blind and visually impaired students took to the streets to raise awareness of pedestrian safety.
This food is made from carefully selected ingredients and methods. Hope this food will bring you a wonderful life.
Engrish
It must mean but the meaning is not important.
It does not matter much that it is incorrect.
Correctness is preferable but it is not read so a belief that it is meaningful is enough.
It should be as unpronouncable as possible (hence the use of l and r)
The impossibility of pronunciation is preferable.
It should mean visually.
If it were in Japanese it would be far too intrusive.
It should be meaningful to as many people as possible (other than the wearer!) or in an international language. English, and French are far preferable to Tamil.
It should mean on its own. It should have visual linguistic meaning, without a reader.
In that sense it is perhaps like the names of named places, so famed, that they are felt to exist out there without any detour (c.f. Derrida) through the mind of an interpretans (Pierce).
Like names of named places the best place to collect them is perhaps stamped upon ones person as Engrish T-shirts
Engrish and names are like the opposite of Jackson's Mary's red qualia. Engrish is external 'proof of the fact' that writing can have meaning without being read, as opposed to internal 'proof of the fact' that something can have meaning, can speak, just by being seen. Enrgish is almost identical to imprisioned Jackson's Mary's whispered "red." Both are crippled signs lacking in half their meaning, meaning but not quite meaning, and made replete by different means. Written Engrish only needs a native speaker, an interpretans, another external phenomena in so far as persona is mask, to prove Engrish had meaning all along. Phonic, whispered, "red" onlyneeds an internal qualia to prove that Mary's whispering was half the real deal. One says the truth is the world, the light, and other people. The other says I knew all along, and just needed to travel a bit to get the evidence inside me; the truth is independence. Both serve to hide the eye and ear of the Other.
The (Adirredian) reconstructive urge is out and about informing tourism destination choices and fashion behaviour.
フランキーは戦争と言う
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
A visually captivating touch screen demands attention and encourages touch interaction from the user.
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Music building on LEFT, Art building on RIGHT - Art gallery is 2 stories, and located directly across the walkway of Art building. Norton Auditorium is visually behind the viewer's perspective, adjacent the Music building.
Arriva Scotland West operates a large fleet of East Lancs bodied Scania 113s that were new to Clydeside in 1995. Captured here is M118 RMS, an East Lancs European bodied L113CRL example. Others from this batch carry low-floor East Lancs MaxCi bodywork which is not visually dissimilar to the European but is built on N113CRL chassis.
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Strait of Hormuz (Nov. 19, 2006) - From the left, Gunner's Mate Seaman Garrett Woolsey, Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Jonathan Zarrillo, and Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Maurice Watson assigned to Mobile Security Squadron Three (MSS-3) Det. Bahrain, keep a watchful eye on an approaching surface contact. "We try to find out as much information visually and report to the tactical supervisor on bridge so they know what's going on," said Watson. MSS-3 Det. Bahrain squadron is currently assigned aboard USNS Supply (T-AOE 6) to provide shipboard security and ensure its safety in international waters so it can operate freely while transiting the region. U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kitt Amaritnant.
See this in the browser here. Click anywhere to go through a few different pages.
Goal: To introduce and invite the public to the church.
Audience: The main neighborhood is an upper middle class suburb, with lots of highly educated young families.
Direction: We did a long study on audience and goals. Visually we wanted to communicate a welcoming and friendly tone, with lots of invitational messages. Of course the content is variable, and probably will include more people or something.
Project: Public website
Other important info: The hope is for this to become a wordpress template. Any feedback is welcome, as I am pitching this to the team soon.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
This visually-simple multiplayer game is a surprisingly competitive tank warfare simulator. The tanks move quite slowly and can fire only one shell at a time. As a result, positioning is crucial.
Prominent footballers, coaches, international experts and representatives from sport organisations and clubs came together for the launch of ‘A Ball for All’ – a project to promote access to the practice of football for blind and visually impaired people.
The launch event, which was organised by Save the Dream, took place at Aspire Zone on the occasion of National Sport Day.
Run in collaboration with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), Sasol, under its Definitely Able initiative, Qatar Social & Cultural Centre for the Blind (QSCCB) and Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF), the event featured French ambassador to Qatar Eric Chevallier, Qatar Sports Club and former Inter Milan player Luis Jimenez and legendary international coach Bora Milutinovic.
Delegates discuss a new international treaty to improve access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people at the WIPO Diplomatic Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, held from June 17 to 28, 2013.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
A visually striking plate, and Duffy’s third dish which paired a 118°poached-then-chilled-then-carmelized only on one side sea scallop with variations of tapioca (puffed and dusted with hibiscus salt, hibiscus-soaked tapioca chip and licorice-y Sambuca soaked tapioca balls), hibiscus (salt and beet-red hibiscus syrup) with toasted goats milk puree and licorice-flavoured elements (shaved fennel bulb, stalk, fronds and hoja santa leaves). Duffy explained that his use of the chewy tapioca balls (the type found in bubble tea) was not just for texture, but utilizing the unique component as a carrier of licorice-y Sambuca in a chilled scallop plate.
Visually challenged students singing @ Rakum Blind school, Indira nagar, Bangalore, India. I was amazed seeing their focus and talent.
This event was organised by a group of like minded people have decided to get together and make a difference to a set of visually impaired children.
It was a fun evening with children of Rakum school. More Photos
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One of my ham programs both visually & verbally alerts you to a nearby lightning strike(s):
"Alert Strike Detected"
Very cool...GridTracker!
It was some rough weather here with numerous power outages but nothing like the golf ball size hail in Windsor, 50 miles to our west & London to our east, see below for video...
Thanks to Ray here on Flickr for putting me onto this great program.
2 confirmed tornadoes ~70 miles east of here in London:
london.ctvnews.ca/two-tornadoes-tear-through-southwestern...
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A very interesting and visually rich marker stone dedicated in the first instance to Frederick Evans who died aged two years. The soul of the boy is seen carried to Heaven by an angel as the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descends to earth. The stone is flanked by inverted torches which symbolise death. The serpent entwining a rod resembles the rod of Asclepius the Greek god associated with healing and medicine. Its Christian significance may relate to the story in the Book of Numbers of how Moses, after God had smitten doubting Israelites with poisonous snakes, on instructions from God, saved them with a brass serpent entwined round a rod, the sight of it reviving them. Thus it has also come to represent salvation, resurrection (as well as sin and temptation!) The reverse of this stone is dedicated to other family members and also William Morgan, "faithful comrade and servant of Evan Evans". See link for reverse of this stone: www.flickr.com/photos/16498755@N07/9402870522/
"Short was his life,
Yet liveth he ever;
Death has its due,
Yet dies he never".
"Long nights and days I bore great pain,
To waite for cure t'was all in vain,
Till God above he thought it best,
To save my pain and give me rest".
St Cybi's was dedicated to the 6th Century Cornish St Cybi who crossed the Bristol Channel and sailed up the Usk, landing at Llangybbi. After a confrontation with a local chieftain involving a couple of miracles, he was granted the land for the church. The tower, nave and chancel date from the 13/4th Centuries, with 17th Century fittings such as the font. The church is noted for its mediaeval wall paintings, including the famous "Christ of the Trades" or "Sunday Christ". Unfortunately they have been badly damaged, possible by Cromwell's Roundheads who tore through Monmouthshire destroying all signs of "idolatry" like a 17th Century Taliban.
At the 2010 WIPO Assemblies, American pop legend Stevie Wonder made a plea for action by the Organization’s 184 member states to improve access to published works for those living with visual impairment. WIPO supports initiatives in the to facilitate access to information and cultural content to blind and visually impaired persons through its Vision IP Platform.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Schopenhauer’s philosophy visually explained (as far as I understand it with my limited knowledge)
The empirical consciousness is like a glass with many facets.
The world of perception – or rather the (human) perception of the world – is like a glass with many facets.
Space, time and causality are properties of the empirical consciousness, not of the world, the world substance, the thing-in-itself. They are the modes of human cognition.
As a glass with many facets divides the object into many separated objects, space, time and causality divide the world substance, the will to life and reproduction, into many separated individuals and many separated individual wills. The causality divides into subject and object.
Space, time and causality are mere illusions caused by human limitation, by the limitation of the empirical consciousness.
Any individual has an object/subject mode.
An object cannot exist without a subject and vice versa.
There is no bridge between the world as representation and the world as idea. Man cannot transcend the glass with the many facets or the Veil of Maya. But he can get a glimpse of the world behind the glass or veil by means of aesthetic contemplation, compassion for the suffering of his neighbor and finally by an ascetic way of living.
A glass with many facets – extract from Schopenhauer’s “The World as Will and representation” where he wonders over the plurality and yet the uniformity of the world:
If we start from the knowledge of the particular, and not from that of the Idea, there is something astonishing, and sometimes even terrible, in the absolute uniformity of the laws of nature. It might astonish us that nature never once forgets her laws; that if, for example, it has once been according to a law of nature that where certain materials are brought together under given conditions, a chemical combination will take place, or gas will be evolved, or they will go on fire; if these conditions are fulfilled, whether by our interposition or entirely by chance (and in this case the accuracy is the more astonishing because unexpected), to-day just as well as a thousand years ago, the determined phenomenon will take place at once and without delay. We are most vividly impressed with the marvellousness of this fact in the case of rare phenomena, which only occur under very complex circumstances, but which we are previously informed will take place if these conditions are fulfilled. For example, when we are told that if certain metals, when arranged alternately in fluid with which an acid has been mixed, are brought into contact, silver leaf brought between the extremities of this combination will suddenly be consumed in a green flame; or that under certain conditions the hard diamond turns into carbonic acid. It is the ghostly omnipresence of natural forces that astonishes us in such cases, and we remark here what in the case of phenomena which happen daily no longer strikes us, how the connection between cause and effect is really as mysterious as that which is imagined between a magic formula and a spirit that must appear when invoked by it. On the other hand, if we have attained to the philosophical knowledge that a force of nature is a definite grade of the objectification of will, that is to say, a definite grade of that which we recognise as our own inmost nature, and that this will, in itself, and distinguished from its phenomena and their forms, lies outside time and space, and that, therefore, the multiplicity, which is conditioned by time and space, does not belong to it, nor directly to the grade of its objectification, i.e., the Idea, but only to the phenomena of the Idea; and if we remember that the law of causality has significance only in relation to time and space, inasmuch as it determines the position of the multitude of phenomena of the different Ideas in which the will reveals itself, governing the order in which they must appear; if, I say, in this knowledge the inner meaning of the great doctrine of Kant has been fully grasped, the doctrine that time, space, and causality do not belong to the thing-in-itself, but merely to the phenomenon, that they are only the forms of our knowledge, not qualities of things in themselves; then we shall understand that this astonishment at the conformity to law and accurate operation of a force of nature, this astonishment at the complete sameness of all its million phenomena and the infallibility of their occurrence, is really like that of a child or a savage who looks for the first time through a glass with many facets at a flower, and marvels at the complete similarity of the innumerable flowers which he sees, and counts the leaves of each of them separately.
William Alexander Månesøn. Prince of the Blue Moon.
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this young girl is visually impaired... and that does not restrict her to lead a normal life...she was making bindiya on her forehead while i took this portrait... as a whole she is entirely a great personality... enjoying each and every bits of life...
Full story is here
Harlem, Manhattan
The IRT Broadway Line Viaduct is the most imposing and visually impressive above-ground engineering structure of the IRT subway system. Spanning the deep Manhattan Valley between 122nd Street and 135th Street along Broadway, the viaduct, designed by the engineers of the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners, under the direction of chief engineer William Barclay Parsons., is an excellent example of a double-hinged parabolic braced arch structure. Supporting both the tracks and the 125th Street station, the viaduct is a testament to the skill of the engineers and contractors who designed and built New York City's first subway between 1900 and 1904.
Along Section 12 of the subway route on upper Broadway, a deep depression in the topography required the erection of a viaduct between 122nd and 135th Streets over Manhattan Street, now 125th Street. Standard viaduct construction could not be used for the entire length of the valley since the supports would have necessitated a costly realignment of the angled intersection of Broadway and Manhattan Street. For this reason, the center portion of the viaduct was created by using a double-hinged parabolic braced arch to carry the subway lines over Manhattan Street.
The Manhattan Valley Viaduct is actually composed by three different types of structures. The masonry approaches at both ends (from 122nd Street to LaSalle Street on the south and from 133rd Street to 135th Street on the north) are constructed of rough-faced granite piers with brick infill. A dressed stone molding runs along the tops of the piers supporting a stone guard rail holding name plates ornamented with guttae. These name plates were presumably to bear the name Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company, but were never filled in.
As the slope towards Manhattan Street increases, the stone approaches lead to steel structures of standard viaduct construction which support the tracks. This portion of the viaduct consists of impressive single-bent and double-bent steel towers spanned by plate girders. These towers in turn flank the center portion of the viaduct, a three-ribbed, double-hinged parabolic braced arch, spanning 168^ feet. Each rib is divided into fourteen panels, and from each panel joint a vertical post rises to support the floor system. Pins link the arch to the foundations which consist of two parallel rows of three concrete piers each. These arch foundations are carried to a depth of 30 feet below the street surface. The total length of the viaduct from 122nd Street to 135th Street (including the arch) is 2,174 feet, and the maximum height above 125th Street is 54 feet.
The station structure, centered above the arch and serving the 125th Street station, is extremely utilitarian and constructed of steel beams and wooden sheathing. Changes have been periodically made to the station through the years. Decorative iron railings and lamp posts extend along the sides of the station platforms. New escalators have replaced the originals, and these extend beyond the viaduct on both sides of the station.
The Manhattan Valley Viaduct, constructed for a specific purpose, resulted from the unusual topography of this section of Manhattan. The intent of the parabolic arch at the center was "to present lines consonant with an attractive effect, and to avoid unnecessary obstruction to the street or blemish to the landscape."*^ If function was paramount in the minds of the Rapid Transit engineers, the solution was beautiful as well as practical. With its bold masonry and graceful curves, the viaduct is both imposing and visually impressive, and is a major component of the IRT subway system.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Blind and low-vision high school students were joined by parents and educators while touring the University of Michigan’s 3D Lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive D’Souza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Visually styled after a generic sedan, no make and model in particular. Seats three.
This is one of my favorite angles for it since it nicely shows off the sweep of the front fender.
More details on Brickshelf: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=404587
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
This is the first noctilucent clouds I've seen visually this year. After sunset I noticed a small but bright patch of NLC above the trees. I set up two cameras, one with a widefield lens and one with a Zoom lens. The NLC patch was very small so the widefield lens barely picked anything up, but I pointed the 300mm zoom at the brightest part and took a photo every ten seconds for 25 minutes. The zoom lens was picking up some really gorgeous structure.
The photos were processed in Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
The most colorful and visually spectacular valley in Yellowstone, Wyoming is the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Two large waterfalls occur along this stretch of the river - the Upper Falls and the Lower Falls.
The rocks of the canyon include rhyolite lava flows, rhyolitic volcanic tuffs, and some sedimentary deposits - all are geologically young and date to the Quaternary.
The yellows, pinks, reds, and oranges indicate the presence of hydrothermally altered rocks. Hydrothermal metamorphism refers to the intense alteration by superheated groundwater. Yellowstone has over 100,000 hydrothermal features in the form of hot springs, geysers, fumaroles, and mudpots.
Locality: view from Artists Point, southern rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, northwestern Wyoming
The Flickr app for iPhone has updated its look (again), this time replacing the "All" page on your photostream with a "Camera Roll" page, to match the Camera Roll on the web browser version of Flickr. And since I've made it my unofficial job to document these updates, here's my take on this:
THE GOOD:
• The website and the app are now more visually cohesive. (In other words, they're more matchy-matchy.) Things are generally tidier; the icons on the bottom of the screen tuck thenselves away while you're scrolling, and untuck thenselves when you stop. Also, if you're deeply into a stream (yours or someone else's), you can easily jump up to the top by tapping "photos" or "camera roll". It's also easy to swipe left and right to change from a photostream to albums, groups, etc.
• White backgrounds! A photo's comment page now has black text on a white background, which is SO much easier to read. Some may find the white more glaring, but I'm actually happy that I don't have to have the brightness on my phone's screen up ridiculously high in order to see properly (having high brightness on an iPhone 5 is a battery guzzler!). BTW, when looking at another person's stream, you get their "Public" page view, not their "Camera Roll" view, but that makes sense.
• Notifications (AKA "Recent Activity") can now be accessed with one tap instead of two.
• Searching can now be accessed with one tap, instead of having them tucked two taps away in two different areas of the app. (Once on your photostream and once on the Contacts page. Seriously, that was just redundant and silly.)
• You can now change your avatar and photostream's cover photo through the app.
• More options to share your photos to other sites, if you're into that sort of thing. :^P
• It is MUCH easier to scroll through your backlog, which I'll explain in more detail in my next screencap.
THE BAD:
• You STILL can't add a photo to multiple groups at once! Aurgh.
• Still can't edit the date on a photo. (In fact, there's still just *one* date—"date taken"—whereas on the website, you can edit the "date taken" and "date posted" times.)
• There's still a character limit in descriptions. In order to write all this text, I had to open the mobile internet version of Flickr using Safari (the iPhone web browser) and write it there. That's a pain.
• The symbol for your Contacts page doesn't give any visual clues about it being the Contacts page. It's that little clump of horizontal lines on the lower left. Whuh? In the previous version of the app, the Contacts icon at least looked like a (simplified) photograph.
• When looking at an individual photo, the "share" and "info" buttons have been swapped, and I KNOW I'm going to tap the wrong one a few times until I get used to that. :^P
• The filters are a bit different. I haven't investigated fully, so I don't know whether they've just been renamed or have been replaced completely, but I'm rather miffed about that. I'm going to miss Color Vibe.
• When the "Camera Roll" page was the "All" page, thumbnails of private photos had a little lock symbol in the corner so you could see at a glance which photos were private and which weren't. Now, you have to tap "Select" in order to see the lock symbol on private pics. Why make us have to tap a button to see information we could see with ZERO taps before, Flickr?
THE 50-50:
• You can now edit a photo *after* it's been uploaded! However, the downside of this is that the new edited version of the photo will replace the previous version of the photo, not post a copy. (On the Flickr website you have the option of replacing *or* duplicating.)
AND FINALLY:
• I have no comment to make on the Auto-Uploadr function; that's been available for some time now and I simply don't use it.
So, overall, I think these changes are definite improvements, with a few minor annoyances. The main drawbacks are the same drawbacks we've had for ages—the groups and description issues, namely. But the app itself looks more fresh and inviting, and it'll be fun to explore.