Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty
Originally uploaded by :shawn:

Some of you may know that I am a avid user of flickr, the worlds best photo sharing site. It is a service that I started using in May 2006. I read an article that Google was launching a new service called Picasa Web so as to try and compete with flickr. The article actually "pushed" me to give flickr a whirl. I have been addicted since.

Why?

Well, for starters it gave me a place to showcase my pictures and allow other to see. Then there was the community aspect of it, how you can grow a network of contacts that view and share their photos with you. And mind you, not just any photo's, so often it is the best they have to offer at the time and as time passes they keep getting better after learning from other flickr members.

Personally, I have learned so so much from my fellow flickrites, in ways that I could never learn from a magazine. To be honest, it is not from the critiquing as almost ALL comments left on photos are full of "oohs" and "ahhh's" and almost never off constructive criticism. Where the learning comes in is just from he fact that you are viewing wonderful photos from some of the best photographers on earth.

So what is the reward from posting good photo's on flickr? Every serious flickr user want to get a photo in this thing called Explorer, the holy grail for fine photo's. No one is totally sure what gets a photo there, but nonetheless, it is the goal..

Well today I am the proud owner of 3 photo's in Explorer. Not a big deal really, many members have many many more. What is ironic to me is that 2 of the 3 are pictures of this dam cat you are looking at. Granted, it is a cute photo, after all, look at the way she is staring at me. It is like she was bending over to see where my fat head went when looking through the viewfinder...

So if you are not a member, you MUST give it a try, if you are, add me as a contact so I can learn from you!