As you may have noticed from previous posts, I have not been a participant in the social Internet. Well, I’m making some changes in that realm.

Two of my most recent changes of heart were the subject of my last entry. The first was Twitter and the second was Flickr. I have discovered (as I am sure you noticed) that I could integrate these two services into my blog. You can follow my tweets just below my most recent Flickr photos in the sidebar to the right of this page. But Flickr is what I want to talk about.

The thing is, I never had any desire to post my pictures on such crude a mechanism as Flickr. To me, it lacked style and design and instead had the rough, utilitarian look of so many of the early social networking sites. However, two things have changed my mind.

First, I wanted to take advantage of what I consider a neat trick Flickr offered. I can take a picture with my cell phone and then e-mail it to my Flickr account to be automatically posted on my Flicker page. I can also extend my blog to show the most recent posts on my FLicker page, thus the pictures to the right. My objective is to just take one picture a day of a simple or abstract subject and upload it to the page. Today, for instance, I took a picture of the street near my home where the sun was setting. I just whipped my camera out and the sunlight streamed into the lens. It is a simple but interesting picture. So I uploaded it.

The other reason for my getting a Flickr account was to possibly post entries in the This Week In Photography (TWIP) by-weekly photo contents. TWIP is a podcast I listen to. They have a Flickr group that they use for entering the competition. We’ll see if I choose to submit anything. I suppose if they have a topic of interest to my I shall.