[Leica] fascinated by the flickr site

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

It's much more than a snaphot gallery. It's a big online community with 
photography as main topic. Beside showing and sorting your pictures (it's 
not reserved for snapshots only, but all kinds of photographs, btw!), you 
can discuss, blog, make contacts, join or create special interest groups and 
much more. I have an account there: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40833360@N00/

It has a lot of gallery features one must get used with it first. The contra 
of such a site is that the loading times are often massively slowed down due 
to the heavy server traffic and the huge amount of features. The whole thing 
is one giant database (with literally millions of pictures) maintained by 
dozens of engineers (or maybe hundreds since Yahoo bought it).

There are similar places, too, like http://www.smugmug.com (usually a little 
bit faster in loading) or http://www.pbase.com (more basic, less community 
features, sometimes gone #404)

Imagine the LUG in big, in young, and with all the newest bells & whistles, 
then you get flickr. Nevertheless I prefer Brians saloon! There's definitely 
no Ted at flickr that tells you his extremely appreciated "Photographer 
Suggestions #1-3"!!!!

Cheers

Didier





>anyone checked out the site www.flickr.com ?
>I hit it by accident while googling the ricoh grd.
>its a global snapshot site.
>As the ricoh grd has been in Japan for awhile now, there are lots of
>shots taken with it. Fascinating how different the aesthetic is.
>Much quirkier snapshots than I used to seeing. Lots are snaps of
>technology and toys.
>Eric