Photos from the depths of time

Or at least, pre-Flickr. :-)

I just posted to Flickr a bunch of pictures I took before I started using Flickr regularly. Nothing particularly interesting, except maybe my pictures of the Seattle Central Library, taken the weekend after it opened, and some shots of Snoqualmie Falls from the top and bottom.

Posted by Garrett on June 1st, 2008 in Photo sharing, Photography | No Comments

Experiments in e-commerce

I don’t think I mentioned before that I’ve been playing with AutoStitch to make high-res panoramic pictures: some of my attempts are posted over on flickr (which now accepts videos, btw).

I took one of the shots and used it to make a calendar over at Cafepress: it’s a bit late, but if you want to buy one anyhow, feel free. :-)

Posted by Garrett on April 9th, 2008 in CafePress, Photo sharing, Photography | No Comments

Online aerial imagery

Methinks Flickr needs to update their geotagging imagery.

Seattle from above… or is it?

Posted by Garrett on December 12th, 2007 in Photo sharing, Seattle | No Comments

Implications of Creative Commons

I post a lot of my digital photos on flickr under the Creative Commons “by-nc-nd” license, meaning that anyone can reuse them for non-commercial purposes, as long as they give me proper attribution and don’t change them.

Some people on flickr who post under a less-restrictive license, “by” only, recently got a surprise: their pictures had been appropriated by the ad agency for Virgin Mobile in Australia, who were using them in an ad campaign, on bus shelters. Some of the people depicted in the photos are rather ticked-off…

Posted by Garrett on August 7th, 2007 in Copyright, Photo sharing | No Comments

Present request

If anyone is planning on spending a lot more on my next birthday present than I think they are, I’d really like to get a good digital camera, instead of just the standard PhD (Press here, Dummy!) ones that I’ve been buying. Cory@BoingBoing says that the FX07 is really cool, but I want something I can actually adjust.

Flickr would be even more fun that way. :-)

Posted by Garrett on April 13th, 2007 in Family, Photo sharing | No Comments

Seattle monorail picture

While browsing around flickr just now, I came across this shot.

Monorail!

Wish I had gotten it myself. :-)

Posted by Garrett on April 3rd, 2007 in Photo sharing, Seattle | No Comments

Photos of souvenirs in context

This flickr set consists of postcards and other knick-knacks photographed in their original location, placed so they’re at the correct scale. Thanks to Peter Morwood for the pointer.

Posted by Garrett on March 29th, 2007 in Photo sharing | No Comments

Does getting your picture in a museum count…

…if the name of the exhibit is “We are all photographers now!”?

Installation Photo

The picture I submitted was displayed on March 3, at 1:39 PM.

Posted by Garrett on March 5th, 2007 in Photo sharing | 2 Comments

Speaking of photos…

…I just found a gallery of pictures from the 2004 fire in Bangor when the Masonic Temple burned down. Amazingly, the photographer got there before the firefighters started spraying the water that made later pictures so iconic, and stayed there until the wrecking ball went to work the next day.

Posted by Garrett on February 28th, 2007 in Bangor Masonic Hall, Freemasonry, Maine, Photo sharing | No Comments

Want your photos in an art gallery?

Then you might want to check out “WE ARE ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS NOW”, an exhibit at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. I submitted my picture of the Cineplex in Downtown Seattle: if they use it, I get a picture of my picture. :-)

Posted by Garrett on February 28th, 2007 in Art, Photo sharing | No Comments

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