This is fantastic!!
steev has posted a method that integrates Flickr with GoogleMaps – allowing you to tag your pictures with the location of where they were taken.
I’ve just spent a good hour adding GeoTags to many of my pictures. I’m like a pig in shit.
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I got up reasonably early and went out for walk from Willingham up to the Great Ouse, along its banks and down into Willingham again. Took about 3 hours in all, 6.5 miles according to the book. Not the most interesting of walks from a photography point of view, many long straight paths, flat fields and distant tree-lines, your typical fen landscape. But I did get a few good shots that are on flickr.
I tried to make more of an effort with the flickr descriptions for these photos. Because of the lack of good subject-matter, this set became less about photography per se and more about a journey that was being documented using photography, so adding a description seemed appropriate in this case. So what I really mean is that I was being a tourist not an artist.
And here is where I have a bit of an ambiguous attitude towards my photography. I see it as an artistic expression and would like to make every shot count. But sometimes you’re just unable to find the inspiration and all you can do is tell a story in a sequence of shots, and although I am attempting to make the shots the best I can, sometimes that’s not their only reason for being. They have an information content as well as an aesthetic value.
I think that I would like to set up two concurrent streams, one for sets of pictures which are like every day life, and one for special shots, art shots if you will. On a related note I was taking a look at pixelpost which I’ve come across various photographers using. Not sure if I would need a separate database for this or if I could double-up the blog’s one.
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Made it into work today. Didn’t really want to, but there’s just too much to do at the moment. I feel better than I did yesterday, I still have the sore throat and am sneezing a lot, but at least my body doesn’t feel like it’s been beaten any more.
Got to a meeting early today, so spent the time before it started taking some shots round Cambridge (it was a nice sunny day). It was one of those nice experiences, in that when I took a look at the pics when I got home I noticed many aspects to them that I hadn’t seen when I was taking the photos. I really liked the way Garage 1, Garage 2 and Garage 4 came out after being cropped drastically – very abstracted, the colours came through really well. Garage 3 was a bit of an anomaly, but I left it in regardless.
Also the rather unreal building in the background of this shot. And this shot is just a beautiful take on a fairly common subject (at least it is in Cambridge) – the fan of punts really makes the composition. Oh, and this one with the beautiful blue of the window – I like the fact that it’s off in one corner, not the main subject, but adds so much to the overall feeling of the pic. That’s what I think, anyway.
Caught a cold at the weekend. It came on suddenly while I was at my parents’ celebrating my Gran’s birthday. It started out as a sore throat, but this morning was a sore chest, throat and head. So I took a day off work and have slept most of the day.
Quite a bad day to take off, as Louise is away this week, and I have a shed-load of work to get done, as usual. I was also meant to be presenting some brochure designs today, but have not been able to complete them, although I did do three cover designs last night. I find covers easier to design than inside spreads – they stand-alone and don’t have to have so much of a logical and consistent presentation of data as the insides do.
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