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Macro Monday : Beach/Sand/Dirt

I’m always looking for new ideas and ways to increase my learning with photography. One of the groups I joined on Flickr is Macro Mondays. Every week, a new theme is set then the following Monday, everyone uploads a maximum of five images to the group. This weeks Macro Monday was Beach/Sand/Dirt. The image below seems to be the most popular of my set for the week.

Tags: beach, macro, macro mondays, raynox, sand

If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer

Saw this image via Thomas Hawk on Flickr.

Photo taken by Jeremy Brooks
Uploaded to Flickr by Thomas Hawk

Seems his friend Jeremy Brooks, had a minor run in with this guy while out shooting some photos.

However, Mr. Angry Overreaction Man decided that he now had a problem with me. He confronted me, demanding my camera. Of course, I refused. He got in my face and started threatening me, telling me that I cannot take his photo without his permission. I told him that yes, in fact, I can. He then walked up and bumped into me, trying to act tough. I told him that one more touch and I would call the police.

As I mentioned on Thomas’ photostream, it is well within our rights to photography in public places (unless you live in Quebec)… ask me nice and I’ll be inclined not to post it - or send me a cordial e-mail if you see an image of you that I’ve taken and I’ll likely remove it at your request - be a jerk or worse and it’s going to go up for sure.

Check out Jeremy’s accounting of the incident on his blog.

Digg Jeremy’s original blog post.

Tags: anger, flickr, jeremy hall, photographer, Portrait, rights, thomas hawk

10 Really Useful Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts (and more)

Found this older post on DPS, I use a couple of these and they are great scripts!

Here’s another great link as well over at Steeev’s Flikr Projects. The one I use from this the most is the Multi Group Sender…

Better flickr Firefox extension is supposed to be another good one, adds a bunch of menu items to flickr. Looks like it incorporates a couple of ones I use already (Rich edit, buddy icon reply), will have to check it out!

Last but not least for now, here’s one that overlays the EXIF data on the photo (if available) when you roll over it.

Tags: DPS, flickr, greasemonkey

6 Million People…

There are a ton of flickr groups out there - a ton! Came across this one through our threesixtyfive group - it’s called 6 Million People.

During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered approximately six million Jews. According to the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Holocaust is the name used to define a systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored campaign of persecution and murder. Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in pre-World War II Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of all European Jews by the War’s end. The goal of this group is to collect 6 million pictures of different people, with one person in each picture, as a representation of the massive number of Jews the Nazis murdered during World War and to help remember both them and the other victims of Nazi Germany.

Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, others targeted for death included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies) and at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, or maltreatment. The Germans killed tens of thousands of non-Jewish Polish intellectual and religious leaders, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be socially unacceptable were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.

The United Nations General Assembly reaffirms that ‘the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice.”

Please help us remember the holocaust dutifully and respectfully by adding your photos– of you, your loved ones and others– to our pool. Add as many photos as you want, but please submit no more than 1 picture of any person, so that in the end we will have close to 6 million pictures of people, with a different person the subject of each picture. It’s going to take a long time to add up to 6 million pictures—that’s 200,000 Flickr pages with 30 images each—but our goal is 6 years or less. When we complete the project, it will be a memorial to those who died, and will provide us a with a way to visualize all those people. Thank you for helping and supporting us in our goal.

Sources: www.ushmm.org & www.un.org

The rules are simple:

1. Please respect the tone of this group and its members.
2. Post as many photos as you like.
3. Each photo should include exactly 1 person
4. Please submit no more than 1 picture of any person.
5. Only pictures taken of you, by you, or by friends & family
6. No porn
7. At some point, pictures in this project may be used non-commercially outside of Flickr to help promote the group and in keeping with the spirit of the group. No one’s photo will be prominently used without their explicit permission.
8. (Optional) Tag your photos “6 Million People” or 6MillionPeople.
9. (Optional) Please add lots & lots of photos that fit the group rules. We’ll need 60,000 members to add 100 pictures each; it’ll be hard, but we can do it.

Sounds awesome, I’m in. If I’ve taken a photo of you, chances are I’ll be adding you to the group. You can view the photos I’m adding at my 6 Million People set.

Tags: 6 million people, flickr, portraits, self-portraits

Abandoned… on flickr Places.

Turns out my Abandoned photo (below) is currently the most interesting from Spruce Grove on flickr Places, which means it’s the feature photo for people searching/viewing photos from Spruce Grove!

Edit your photos! On Flickr!

Flickr just announced a partnership with Picnik to allow online editing of photos from your flickr account - free! I think I’ll still stick to Lightroom and Photoshop though… Read the story over at the flickr blog.

Tags: flickr, photo editing, picnik

Most Popular Cameras on flickr

Interesting… showing Canon Digital Rebel XTi and XT at the top of the list of DSLR cameras used on flickr. See the graphs on flickr’s camera finder.

flickr Places

The folks at flickr have been busy updating the maps in the geotagging area of things… they’ve also added flickr Places:

The Places project is our way of saying thank you to all our members who’ve taken the time to put their gorgeous photos on a map. Browse the whole globe, from your hometown to your favorite place, or places you’ve never even heard of…

It’s pretty cool… you can check out flickr Places here, and you can also check out Photos taken in Spruce Grove on flickr!

Tags: flickr, geotag, geotagging, places, spruce grove