A picture is worth a thousand words

My evolving website is getting taken to the next level.

I've finally hopped on the photo-sharing bandwagon and embraced Flickr (one of the coolest applications on the web right now, and made in Vancouver to boot). I still have a big photo album on Yahoo! that can be viewed at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/writeimagebc/my_photos but most or all of those images will eventually be transferred over to my Flickr site, which can be accessed by clicking on that odd-looking constantly-changing box of pictures labeled "what is this?"

What made me do the switch? While I enjoy taking pictures for the fun of it, it takes a little of the joy out of it to realize that no one will ever see them unless I actually lead them to the source. That's almost as bad as just keeping prints locked up in a real photo album in my closet. Yahoo!'s traditional photo archiving application just isn't as quick and easy to use for organizing photos. Flickr makes "tagging" simple so that people can actually find my pictures by typing in associated search words.

It seems as though all of Vancouver's bloggers and many of those in other linked communities made the switch long ago.

Besides, it is Father's Day (at least for another two and a half hours). Dad, if you've been wondering where all those photos are that I've been taking all these years, here they are. Enjoy.

tags: Flickr, photos, sharing pictures, photo sharing, Vancouver bloggers