Flickr, the digital, online photo album...I must admit that as an artist I am rather intrigued with the thought of Flickr. It is a free way to get your work viewed and as long as you take the proper precautions, it should not affect your copyrights as the creator and owner.
However, as far as it's promise to protect all my images Flickr seems to fall short. Not because it's not possible to load them onto the site, but because the site doesn't give me the sufficent control I want over my own albums. (Granted I only spent a few moments setting up my account and loading a few photos so I may have overlooked things... feel free to correct me.)
There are some pics that I would want to keep among only family (embarrassing baby pics for example) and some that I would want among only friends (like my 21st birthday, or last year's St. Patty's Day celebration)... can you select which friends can view which sets and groups in Flickr? Perhaps one day Flickr will give me more control over who has permissions to see what. Until then I am afraid not everything will make it to the online album.
Though I did post some of my own images (you can view them by following the link below) I tend to take alot of pictures of people... so until I get permission to post them online I am afraid my photostream will be rather subdued.
Feel free to take a glimpse if you so desire.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sld_photobox/
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