Experimenting with Flickr

flax against skyOriginally uploaded by khaines.

I’m just playing round with what I can do in Flickr. I’d forgotten you can blog straight from Flickr. This is one of the photos I took for a similar exercise for last year’s EVO session. I wanted to update my profile and so went looking for a photo. First I uploaded a pic of myself, but then realised (when browsing) that few people use a photo of themselves. So flicked through (or was that flickred through) and chose this one to be my icon buddy. An interesting term – icon buddy.

I tried several different shots – beach, mountain, flower – before deciding on this particular photo. I like the colour and the flax flowers are very kiwi. Recently in an arty sort of shop, I noticed that someone had collected a whole lot of these stems and stuck them in a vase and was hanging items for sale off them. I would never have dreamt of doing that – but it looked very effective.

I am still intrigued by how people represent themselves through images online. My kids mocked the first photos that I uploaded of myself to MySpace for this purpose as being incredibly formal and old fashioned. In the end I got them to take heaps of photos and then choose the shot they thought was appropriate! NB. I CANNOT STAND the photos taken on your own digital camera where your grinning face is distorted because it is too close!!