Slipping and sliding and flickering through dreams

This week's things are right up my street, as I'm a picture addict.   Friends and family find endless amusement in the sheer quantities of photos I am able to take when I have my camera with me (current record is 587 for one week's holiday), and over the last couple of years I've been teaching myself image manipulation software - first GIMP and now Photoshop.   I have accounts on three photosharing websites - Picasa, Photobucket and Flickr - and I use them all for slightly different purposes.   Picasa is my site of choice for bulk uploading of photos to share, as I have the Picasa software on my laptop at home and so uploading there is incredibly easy.   Photobucket I use to store images that I want to post elsewhere individually, on forums or blogs/LiveJournal, or (with a URL shortener) on Twitter.   And Flickr is where I post my 'good' photos, more as a showcase.   I also use Facebook for photo sharing with friends.   Obviously all the sites basically do the same thing, but I think the way that I use them is quite reflective of how they are used in general.

For Thing 7, I'm therefore already well on my way.   The photos I have on Flickr already are a selection of pictures taken on various travels around the UK and the world in the last few years, and I've cropped and touched them up in Photoshop before uploading.   I have given them all a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence which means that I've chosen to permit other people to redistribute and modify my images as long as they credit me, and allow the same conditions when reposting or modifying.   I really approve of Creative Commons licences as a way to choose a less restrictive form of copyright, and as someone who also creates from other people's work I benefit from other people doing the same.   Since putting my photos up on Flickr I've seen my licence used, as I was contacted twice by a company producing free online travel guides asking for permission to include images I'd taken on their website.   These are the images that were used:

Included in Schmap Guide to Washington DC


Included in Schmap Guide to Brisbane

This week, for Thing 7, I have uploaded a few new photos that I took of my library in the snow in January, and added them to a new set to keep them separate from my other photos. I've joined the Ox23 group and added one of my photos to the pool - hopefully later in the week I'll have time to take a few more photos of the VHL and add those too.   I've also had a lot of fun geo-tagging my photos - as most of them were taken on my travels and so I had to zoom all over the world to find the locations to tag them with.