I’ve been experimenting with using Flickr again. There are some innovations of more modern photo sharing that it simply hasn’t kept up with. For example, there’s a guy who spams the largest Seattle photo group with generated images of waify women looking different kinds of plaintive and wispy, and there’s no way for me to tell Flickr, “don’t show me anything from this guy.” It’s frustrating that its model of sociability hasn’t evolved with some of the baseline functions of social media.
I’ve been trying to clean up and organize my old catalogs of photo files from across a couple of iPhoto and Lightroom catalogs, and every time I begin, I just get absolutely stranded in memory.
I’m spending more time tooling around Flickr lately, and realized quite suddenly just how much of my history is there. Different homes, at least two careers, friends and family and a whole lot of just life is in pictures that I shared there.
I’ve had my X100VI for nearly a year and still learned a bunch from this video by John Greengo: Mastering Fujifilm X100 VI Exposure Controls
I miss the days when I had a bunch of pals hanging out on Flickr.
I’m getting a feel for the new Fuji, appreciating the range of jpeg settings and having fun finding looks that I like. The neighborhood pea patch provides a lot of opportunities to try things out.
Gosh do I feel it when Jedda says
The thing is, if I get overwhelmed sorting through photos and don’t post them in a “timely” manner, I end up never posting them. 07/17/2024
Whether it’s photos, quick posts or more lengthy things I think of writing and sharing, the overwhelm -> just-not-doing-it loop is so powerful. In my case it’s not just the sorting/editing of photos; it’s also the constant self-questioning of “is this the right thing to post?” or “is this the right place?” or “should fix the design first?” that get in my way, every time.
