We’re here, just a day late. We started off talking about an old friend of mine, Todd, who’s doing some interesting photography work with found photos and story telling (he’s a pretty good photographer too). You can find Todd’s Flickr photostream here. Hopefully he’ll be a guest on a future show.
Our photo of the week, which you can see above, is from Greg in Ontario. It’s an interesting low light photo taken at 800 iso; look at the large size and you can see how much he had to push.
Because of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a lot of new equipment was release last week, and a bunch of it had integration with Flickr, like this DVR and a really nifty wireless network picture frame that takes photos from an RSS photo feed like those found on Flickr.
Also in the news, we talked about the financial troubles of Yahoo! and how that might affect Flickr, if at all. This article in the NY Times paints a pretty bleak picture (no pun intended), and speculates about the possible purchase of Yahoo! by Microsoft.
And that brings us to the new question of the week, ” If Yahoo merged with another company, do you think Flickr would be affected and how?”.
You can leave comments either on the Photo Share Podcast Flickr group, by email, or by calling our comment line at 206-339-7374.
Our question last week, “How do you feel about people critiquing your photos on Flickr?”, generated more or less similar responses: people aren’t really on Flickr to get critiques. It’s a social site where people can meet and learn about photography. But other people don’t mind the critiques. I guess it depends if you actually submit your photos to a group whose purpose is the critiquing of photos.
Anyhow, talk with you next week.
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