28 June 2007

Thing 4—Flickr

Better use Scenario 1, as i don't have a digital camera...




Natural Bridges? Yes, but not Santa Cruz—it's the Durdle Door at Lulworth Cove in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Beautiful shot of a heartbreakingly beautiful place...


Being able to share photographs and comment on them could obviously be useful in an online photography class, but i can even think of a way i could have used this recently: in assisting a graduate student via e-mail to assemble some images for a lecture she was presenting. She had not been able to find images of a suitable level of quality, and rather than having to send separate messages containing several large image files (due to our wretched 10MB limit for attachments), i could have sent links to them all had i saved them in Flickr, where she could then view them in any number of sizes. This is very convenient for both finding images of suitable size and quality, as well as making it easy to use those not restricted by copyright.

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