I'm thinking about photos today, as I'll mark a special occasion tomorrow. I'll wait until tomorrow's entry to talk about that.Generally, I love the idea of Flickr. If you are a regular reader here, then you undoubtedly know that already. I am not interested in owning any of the images from my camera. I don't expect to ever take a photo which will make me money. After all, I earn a living by other means. I am pleased to out them all. There's nothing sadder than having a photo languishing in an album in some dark cupboard. Even photos taken on a vacation deserve to run free on the Net.
When part of a Web 2.0 application, others can take my images and provide a new context for them. It happens. We spent around a month in Sri Lanka in both 2004 and 2006. Some of those images have made their way, with blessings into several editions of Travel Sri Lanka. Publishers find it even easier to connect Flickr photos to web applications. For example, today I found this site which has used a few of my images to help describe the history of an ancient Sri Lankan historical site.
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