7 posts tagged “flickr”
Ramadan is a good time for many groups to invite their members for "buka bersama" gathering. "Buka bersama" is breaking fasting together in a certain place. More than eating and drinking after daylight fasting, buka bersama becomes interesting for online communities because it is a special time for all to meet and know each other.
Flickr Jakarta meetup had been organized and done yesterday evening. Fortunately, some of the members I know are culinary photographers as well.
Congratulation, folks, hopefully I can join someday.
As several times happened, I was busy creating new layout replacing old one that made horrible extra space in Internet Explorer. Thomas Arie Setiawan helped me guiding simple-but-useful trick for IE regarding to its handling floating div. It works well mostly because all I need is minimalist and extreme simplicity layout. Still, I needed to spend extra days to move front page, archives, individual entries, and about pages. Other worth things: I managed revisions of layout using Subversion on my Ubuntu, resulting experience of better approaches that will be used to handle various software development projects in my office.
Other interesting experiment I had done in April was photoblogging. Having exceeded my limitation for Flickr's free account, I bought pro account. Never let it be only a status labelled by Flickr, I push myself to take many and many pictures, store them in my local hard disk, and choose the best one I can have, then upload to Flickr. I do that daily or during events, raw captures by hand or handled by extra tools like tripod. Either using my old, secondhanded Olympus camera, or quick capturing by my Sony Ericsson mobile phone are all well-done. My current target is documenting almost all situations I meet and experimenting to tell using photos. That is photoblog inside my mind for now.
So, do I really miss April?
Take my shameless promotion: visit my Flickr's photostream.
I am not a gadgets freak. They are mostly expensive enough for me to achieve.
But this one is nice either as a mobile phone or a pocket camera: Sony-Ericsson K510i. Small and practical enough to handle but still clear enough for photoblogging. So, two devices for Flickr!
I think that upgrading to Flickr is now a must. One set consisting kids going to school dissapears from browsing because I am aggressive enough uploading pictures after 200 entries limitation.
Originally uploaded by Ikhlasul Amal.
Free account is nice, always nice. But like any other things which are free, it has a limitation. For Flickr it means limited set and limited pictures browse-able.
Three years ago when I started blogging, I really did not think that someday I will be serious in photoblogging. I was merely a visitor of many friends' collections exposing about various locations they ever visited.
Today I spend more resources for blogging some of my daily life through photos. A noteworthy that I met several "more serious" photographers, Flickr-minded, who give me very nice introductions, spirits, and souls of street photography.
Street photography itself is choosen because it is easy to do, practically "all the time" moment, nice for start-up like me, and suitable for people with limited tools like me.
This picture marks 200 entries in Flickr, with a hope that I have a way to own Flickr's Pro account.
Continuing previous posting about blogging expense, here is in detail...
First, I have been hosting all my web activities (blogs, wikis, and one mail archive website) in DreamHost. They offer more than all I need and USD 7,95/month fits my budget. I even share some resources with some of my friends. So, hosting is safe for two years (also means: I am pushed by deadline two months before ended!).
Second: connection. This is a must, especially if you step into serious or [semi-]professional blogging. After working hours blogging must be accomodated with personal connection. Moreover, you can start planning yourself living with blogging using that kind of Internet connection. I choose Telkom Speedy, based on PT Telkom, Indonesian government owned telecoms company. Price is moderate: enough for providing common-user's need but still more expensive compared to other countries. In Rupiah, they offer three month 50% discount: IDR 150.000/month and free registration. Apart from monthly bill, I must start shopping ADSL modem. I took D-Link, featuring wireless connection for IDR 753.000.
After three months, I will be billed to normal rate, IDR 300.000/month for 384 kbps and 750 MB usage.
Any other expenses? Oh yes: Flickr Pro! USD 24/year, I think it is very valuable since I was addicted. But Flickr Pro is not necessary for everyone. You can totally reject this idea or simply approve it without noise.
Yesterday I went to office armed with my pocket digital camera and took several shots along the street. It was begun from my house's gate and stopped at about 100 meters near my office. I met enough people and several street events (mostly about preparation for one's job).
Selected from 46 pictures, "the exhibit" of this project were set up on my Flickr's account, exposing 14 entries, Project "30 Minutes to Office".
Today, my free account in Flickr has been used for 183 photos – 17 left! I have a plan to purchase Pro account, but I have not yet decided to do it hurrily (money matters!). Unfortunately, I had invested enough for blog hosting and I must think carefully to spend extra for Flickr Pro.
Later I will think...
Wish me luck. :)
Today I read announcement from Flickr that they have set "blog this photo" up for Vox. Vox Team also reported.
This is my experiment to post my Flickr photo, Celebrating Yesterday's Rainfall, to Vox.
