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Sheesh, you two are grumpy. Newbies might start to think all the old time u75 photography posters are curmudgeons! :p
 
...hopped on the bandwaggon

Here's my newly created Flickr account (just 6 images at the time of writing)...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveamis/

Joined for a number of reasons even though I've had a photography website for over 4 years. Mainly because it makes submitting competition entries to U75 a lot easier than having to wrestle with HTML when I update my website. Also hoping to get some feedback because I sure as heck don't get any from the website! There is also the felxibility and functionality of Flickr which means I can chop and change as necessary...
 
portman said:
Here's my newly created Flickr account (just 6 images at the time of writing)...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveamis/

Joined for a number of reasons even though I've had a photography website for over 4 years. Mainly because it makes submitting competition entries to U75 a lot easier than having to wrestle with HTML when I update my website. Also hoping to get some feedback because I sure as heck don't get any from the website! There is also the felxibility and functionality of Flickr which means I can chop and change as necessary...
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...now a grand total of 12 recent photos organised into two sets - enjoy (or gently slag off) :D
 
I am on flickr, but I just use it to share snapshots of events and people, so I really wouldn't want any of you lot being critical of my photographic ability! :)

If anyone is interested, though, I have the same login name on there! :D

ETA and here are my photos of the recent Picnic with a View.
 
I've been playing around with a few features in this. Especially the tag search. Typed in the name of the nondescript overspill town I live in on the Thames estuary and found a fair few photographers. Including one who shoots in many of the locations I do - funny that I haven't bumped into him yet! It was interesting looking at his work and seeing how differently someone else interprets a scene from exactly the same location that I've shot from. Have joined the Thurrock group as a result of this...
 
I'm jimofwales on flickr. I love it. Could browse peoples photos for years. They're all so much better than mine! :(

I think I started the urban group a while back (the underused one) and promoted everyone to mod status and then forgot about it. :o
 
After joining Flickr (due to this thread) I have gone a bit nuts: uploaded tons, joined a zillion groups, built up contacts, reorganised and renamed pics, and now scanning a few oldies I've not had online before...

However, there is something not really working in terms of community on Flickr. Perhaps it's an issue of scale, or I haven't found the right groups, but there's hardly any real discussions happening. I have seen some wonderful photos and traded a few PMs but it's a tricky place to (virtually) get to know people.

I'm particularly surprised there aren't more photo competitions. I have found a weekly comp on just Babies & Kids that's excellent, and another general comp running irregularly (with a javascript page for voting, which we could do with here!) so maybe I'm being unfair. But I can't help think that with better management of the groups there could be a lot more going on. It looks like a site that'll keep developing...
 
I'm here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_alef_/sets/

Anyone have any particular groups to recommend? The two I mentioned are here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/themecompetition/ (kids & babies)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iptc/ (general)

One group I joined has a "Top 20 by jury" they quickly rejected one photo I submitted (no big deal) but then deleted my posts on their group forum which, I thought at least, were quite reasonable reflections on the nature of having a jury! Obviously not the group for me...
 
alef said:
After joining Flickr (due to this thread) I have gone a bit nuts: uploaded tons, joined a zillion groups, built up contacts, reorganised and renamed pics, and now scanning a few oldies I've not had online before...

However, there is something not really working in terms of community on Flickr. Perhaps it's an issue of scale, or I haven't found the right groups, but there's hardly any real discussions happening. I have seen some wonderful photos and traded a few PMs but it's a tricky place to (virtually) get to know people.

I'm particularly surprised there aren't more photo competitions. I have found a weekly comp on just Babies & Kids that's excellent, and another general comp running irregularly (with a javascript page for voting, which we could do with here!) so maybe I'm being unfair. But I can't help think that with better management of the groups there could be a lot more going on. It looks like a site that'll keep developing...
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Have you visited Utata? I have found it relatively easy to slip in and out of conversations there - and those threads swell to hundreds of replies pretty quickly sometimes. It's a very warm and welcoming community - possibly a little saccharin at times but certainly gives the feel-good-factor.

They also have comps, of a kind. You don't actually win anything, there is no voting, but you participate in projects. Each Thursday is "Thursday Walk" day, where you go out and photograph things - it gets you actually going out on a particular day with the specific purpose of taking some photos. Then there is "Iron Photographer" - where someone sets out three parameters that must be adhered to then you go out and set up the shot, that one gets you thinking more about compositional elements at specific set ups. Then they have themed projects, such as Utata with the Ants, where you had to photograph from ground level. All in all there are plenty of things to participate in and you get out of it what you put in.

They have a companion website too. (I was featured on their front page a while back *polishes ego*)
 
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