Park Life: stark staring
Experimenting with uploading my photographs to this site’s host instead of to the pretty poor service I’ve been getting from Flickr. For the geekily inclined, if I can get this to work well, my backroom will be merely the site’s CSS and my own hard drive, instead of being exposed to the vagaries and adhoc changeableness of an American conglomerate-run service managed by the greedy. My friend Chris is increasingly ascerbic about some of Flickr’s users, describing them as “a grim dictatorship of show-offs”. Whilst I think there’s a show-off in all of us photographers, at the same time, he does have a lovely way of putting these things.
So this is the beginning of my goodbye to the grim dictatorship that is Yahoo and all things Flickr. Since I’ve been using the service to host photographs since 2005, there’s a lot of untying to do, and much of the Dawdon and Swing Bridge websites will be impossible to disentagle, since other people’s photos are being shown there, but as much as can be gone from Flickr, will be gone in coming months. At some point soon I’ll write my list of whys and wherefores as a heed to the unwary.
The photograph is one from my recent series of photographs at Dalton Park. There are about 6 dusty, snowy photographs, and there will be another 6 or so sunny summery ones, when hopefully these spindly twigs will be in leaf. The project is ongoing though, and I’m going to start looking for partners to publish and show the work, possibly in an empty unit in the shopping centre there.
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hooray, that worked, didn’t it?!
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