Aug 18 2008
We Set Up A Flickr Page To Watch Aiden and Gavin Grow Over 365 Days
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing site. I upload a lot of our family photos in the gallery on our web site, so I had never bought into the Flickr phenomenon before. However, it turns out that I get a free Pro account because I use AT&T as my internet provider, so it was worth a look. I found that Flickr is also a social media site, allowing users to join photo groups, designate other users as buddies, and comment on interesting photos.
“Project 365” is a gimmick that PhotoJoJo introduced. To participate, you upload a photo a day for an entire year. Aiden grew up so fast in his first year that I decided to document Gavin’s growth this way. Aiden will be growing too, so he’s got his own 365 project. For fun, I also joined the “365 Toys” group, and I’m taking a picture of a Transformer a day (in six years, I might have photographed my whole collection if I stick with it). It’s hard to keep to this plan, since it requires taking pictures every day, uploading three of them to Flickr, then adding titles and comments to each one. Too much like work.
All of the Flickr photos are parts of larger photo shoots, but I only upload a single photo per day to Flickr. I may upload some of the complete sets to our web site gallery, but there are many sets that never make it that far (we’ve got twelve gigabytes of photos of Gavin so far, and he’s only three weeks old). It will be interesting to look back in a year and see all the changes that our boys have made in that time. I’ve put a link to our Flickr page on the navigation bar (to the right), so check out our 365 Projects!
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Flickr has been my choice for photo sharing for years. It also makes a great social site as well. The Project 365 is always an awesome idea. I have enjoyed watching others but haven’t done one myself. I am preparing to do one for my son though. He starts kindergarden next week and I want to take a picture every day until he starts 1st Grade and can see how much he changed over a year.
We have always kept our photos on our web site. Our previous web site had photos from 2003-2006 on it, but those were lost when we changed web host providers (we still have the photos backed up at home, but I didn’t see the need to re-upload three years worth of pictures to the internet).
To be honest, I always saw Flickr as a place that catered to people who didn’t have web sites of their own. I didn’t see the value in sharing and community-building. I’ve come around in the last year though. We’re still using our web site to store our online albums, but Flickr will now hold select items for our 365 Projects.
Good luck with your upcoming 365 Project! I know how hard it can be to stick with it!
Michael