Tuesday, January 15, 2008

My friend Flickr


I like the range of photographs which are on display about the place we work in. It is interesting to see the locations people have taken photographs (and for some I really hope they were not using flash photography), and the events they have been taken at (the poetry slam featured). It shows the community deciding on our public image. Perhaps we could assist in how our image is depicted...

There are some great options for what you can see. I tried looking for "Black Watch" to see if anything about this specific Sydney Festival event was featured (it wasn't) but found that a few people had uploaded images of black watch wool for socks as well as images of the battalion from Scotland, the regiment from Canada, bagpipers and so on. There are some really talented photographers sharing their works (and a few who should have thought a little longer before hitting the upload button).

The 365 days library project is an interesting one to see a range of libraries over lots of days, Utah State Library has their own group, UK libraries seem to be documenting change as well as heritage buildings, and African community libraries shows how crucial libraries are. There are an amazing number of library groups. Our southern neighbours have a group.

Looking at Flickr can be a bit of time sink as images such as beware the book and Mosman Library compete for attention.

I will have to think about the image I will use from Flickr, so that will be a later post.

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