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We’re baaaaaack! Hard to believe that we’re 21 episodes into this thing . . . did you know that most podcasts are discontinued after just 4 or 5 episodes?

On to the show . . . our photo of the week comes from Basher’s Batey, and we’d like to thank her very much for contributing her work to the group.

Our interview this week, part one of two, is with Helena Zinkham from the Library of Congress. She is one of the team that’s working on the LOC Flickr project. You might have noticed their profile and the photos they’ve uploaded so far. Right now they’re uploading 50 photos a week from the Bain News Service collection, but they’ve already uploaded over 3600 photos. The idea is to make this photos available for people to tag and contribute comments that further contextualize the photos. Stay tuned for the second part next week.

Our question of the week was inspired by some of our interviews. “People often experience life changes which may or may not effect their photography. With or without details, would you like to share how your photography has been effected by these changes?” You can answer the question at the PSP Flickr Group.

While I have you here, I’d like to point you to a new resource on the Web that interacts with Flickr: PhotoShop Express. It’s a Web based tool that allows you to edit and store your photos, plus upload them back to Flickr. Oh, and it’s free.

Speaking of free, we’re having a contest. The purpose of the contest is to promote the podcast — total self interest, I know — but there is some over all benefit: the more popular we become, the better interviews we can get. In that light, I’m giving away 3 domain names that I own. How can you participate in the contest?

You need to promote the podcast on the Web or any other method you can, asking people to come to the Photo Share Podcast and subscribe to the feed. That means you can talk the podcast up on your blog, in your photo stream, on your Flickr profile . . . or any other idea I haven’t thought of. Using our stats package I can tell exactly where our traffic is coming from, so it’ll be pretty easy for me to determine the winner. If you’re doing something interesting you think might not be reflected in our stats, let me know.

To get them you need to either have a Godaddy account or start one (they’re free too). When we announce the winners on the June 16th podcast the first people to contact me will get first choice of the domain name they want. Here are the domains I’ll be giving away:

• http://www.thebestpodcasts.com

• http://www.theslowshow.com

• http://www.whomadewho.org

Just to let you know, next month I’ll probably be having another contest.

Thanks for listening; we’ll talk to you next week!

 

 Photo Share Podcast #21: Flowers, Prizes and The LOC [32:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I know there’s some clever quote from a Prince song about being erotic that I could use here, but I can’t think of it . . . oh, well. Really our interview with Alejandra Guerrero (Corporate Vampire) isn’t about being erotic, but that’s the type of photography she does for work. The interview is about her being put on “restriction” by Flickr even though she was following the community guidelines. In many ways the guidelines are pretty vague, and her restriction seems to be arbitrary because I see pornography all over Flickr (photos that were not taken by the poster –  which is against the guidelines), and these people don’t have their accounts (most often free ones) shut down. Why?

On another subject . . . we have our photo of the week, submitted by Yyellowbird and voted on by people that visited the Photo Share Podcast website. I’m serious, to me that photo doesn’t look like she has a bunch of props around her; do you think that photo’s staged? Anyhow, thanks for the submission and to all the people that voted for the photo. Check out the site to vote on a new set of photos.

Finally, our new question of the week (back to the erotic!): What are your feelings and thoughts about erotic photography on flickr? How do you think Flickr should make the distinction between erotic photography and pornography? You can answer the new question at the PSP Flickr group.

Thanks for listening and have a great week  . . . alright, here are those Prince lyrics to “Erotic City”. ;)

 

 Photo Share Podcast #20: Our Erotic Side [34:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hellooo! That right there is our photo of the week, chosen by people that come to the Photo Share Podcast website. You too can participate by coming to the website to vote. The photo this week was contributed by Andy Sunley. Thanks for this and all your contributions!

This week we had part two of our interview with Chris Seufert, who is a regular contributor to the PSP Flickr group and a professional photographer (really, an all around media creator). One thing that’s interesting is how hard it’s to follow the Flickr community guidelines, that in many ways these are contradicted by some of their own policies found on other pages.

Stay tuned for next week when we have an interview like you’ve never heard on the PSP, when we talk to someone who was put on restriction for not following the guidelines . . . even though she was.

Our question of the week, which you can answer on the PSP Flickr group, is Do you ever use your cell phone for taking photos, and if so how do you share these photos?

Thanks to everyone for listening, we’ll talk to you next week!

 

 Photo Share Podcast #19: Cinco de Mayo [42:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Yup, we’re doing it like pros with this podcast. That’s in reference to our interview with professional media creator Chris Seufert (he works in photography, video, and audio, among other things). This is our first interview with someone who is actually making a living from their photography, and Chris is doing it a little differently than most. He’s actually doing most of his marketing threw Flickr. This is part one of a two part interview.

To the right there is our photo of the week, contributed by Fiction and Photography (name: Alan Nelson). We’d like to thank him for contributing and to everyone who voted.  I’m not sure of the numbers, but I don’t think there’s a lot of black and white photography posted on Flickr (compared to color), so I think it’s nice when we can highlight some of the good ones.

Speaking of black and white photography, here’s our question of the week: Compared to color photography on flickr, why do you think we see so few black and white photos? Does anyone who ordinarily shoots in color decide later that a photo might look nicer in B&W and change it in photo editing software? You can answer the question of the week at the PSP Group on Flickr.

Bonus link: Here’s an article about Flickr that appeared in the Sunday New York Times, in case you missed it.

Thanks for listening, and don’t forget to visit our Flickr group to contribute your photos and answer the question of the week. Have a good week, and we’ll talk with you next.

 

 Photo Share Podcast #18: Doing it like pros [36:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download