Flickr......such Fun!!

Flickr has certainly come a long way since the early days of Web 2.0.
It is amazing just to see what people are using Flickr for these days. From a personal point of view I decided to upload a few photos from my son's wedding by the beach. His wife is Canadian and they have friends scattered throughout the world. By uploading a few pics and sending the one url or web address the page of photos can be viewed by everyone without all the hassles of sending pictures via email with all the associated problems of file size etc.
Here is the link to Zac and Shawna's wedding.

Understanding the terminology is quite a challenge for many people and words like 'tags' and 'group's can all look a bit ominous until you take a good look at the explanations.
As a trained 'cataloguer' I originally viewed tags with horror wondering why a carefully controlled taxonomy of words to categorise subjects was being thrown to the wind and anybody and everybody could just 'tag' something with whatever word suited them. I can see the value of this now and how by using a tag on a photo it can help that photo be found. For example if you wanted a picture of Denece Sippo you can search in Flickr and because of 'tags' you will find some :)

Groups are a great way to share photos too. I belong to a Group called 'Australian Sunrise and Sunsets' on Flickr
This site has some amazing photos and over 890 members.

Flickr's 3rd Party Services
One of the FUN places online.
Why not create your own magazine cover or turn any photo into a Jigsaw puzzle with Flickr Toys at BIG HUG LABS !

You can even POP ART yourself!