Thursday, October 4, 2007

Week 3 Flickr

I love Flickr and could easily waste hours exploring everything it has to offer. I will certainly be making more use of this website. I like not only the fantastic range of photos on the site but also the ability to map them. Playing around with the tags bought up some interesting and sometimes odd indexing results but did enable me to drill down to what I was after in most cases. The results of some of my searches are in the photo links below.

I had the pleasure of living in Mauritius some years ago and have attached some photos from Flickr of this beautiful island. I found the advanced search function userful for this. I have purposely found photos of the real Mauritius, not the touristy Mauritius.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reduit/169917041/ - Grande Gaube beach with the typical casuarina trees shading the beach

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84951145@N00/64836453/ - sugar cane is traditionally planted and harvested by hand.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laiv/349463427/ Port Louis market, a great place for fresh food delivered daily. Very little of it has ever seen a chemical or a modern agricultural machine.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anupnarayanan/1474266491/ the local supermarket in Quatre Bornes where I shopped for groceries. It hasn't changed a bit!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7500443@N02/434939913/ - a beautiful Hindu temple in Port Louis

The flickr 3rd party tools are something I will return to after my brief look at them. Color Pickr is fun and I found all sorts of photos. I object to the advertising links on this webpage. I had a few problems with montagr.

I enjoy lansdcape photography and after enjoying various SLR cameras for several years have reluctantly put my camera aside. I have purchased a quality digital camera and am delighted with it. It has several SLR features but is much more versatile. I like the ability to view what I have just taken and delete what I don't want. Now that I have got the hang of the software I can now store images in a logical way.
Some already feature on my blog.

I am also following the development of blogs by my team and posting comments.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good to see you love Flickr! great blogging!