You may have noticed the odd photo appearing on the sidebar of my blog. I have recently started uploading a selection of my images into flickr. Its quickly becoming a habit, and a time consuming one at that. Every photo has to be lovingly touched up in Photoshop, then tagged with a description and title, tags and added to sets. Then you have to wait ages for the upload!

The thing I enjoy the most is describing each picture. It allows you to take a bit more time over each image, rather than flicking over it in a slide show. It encourages you to find out what you acually saw (e.g. the name of a statue or ship). Also, once tagged you have a great way of quickly finding images you are interested in. Flickr’s 100MB monthly upload limit is going to be very restrictive, which may mean upgrading to the pro account :-(.

I have spent a *lot* of time recently organising and reconciling my digital photo collection and storing them in an easy-to-traverse hierarchical structure. Its amazing how disorganised it can quickly get with lots of duplicates from repeatedly copying the same images to different folders. Photography is one of those things that I would love to do more of, given the time and necessary budget!

Anyway, expect to see a lot more (if you are at all interested) in the near future.