Showing posts with label Thing 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thing 4. Show all posts
Monday, June 23, 2008
Early Morning Fog
I used Flickr to edit this picture. It sharpened the trees in the foreground while leaving the fog nice and foggy.
Thing 4.2
Finally! I don't know how I missed doing this on all the other tries, but here it is. Now, when I'm back at work at the library, I'll try uploading the pics from story hour.
The library has a Picasa account, but I don't have the password. I think I'll use Flickr, because it is tied to my existing yahoo account. It's so much easier to use existing gmail and yahoo accounts for things. I'm experimenting with my personal photos. I can see using Flickr at the library, but we'll have to be careful about pictures of minors.
The library has a Picasa account, but I don't have the password. I think I'll use Flickr, because it is tied to my existing yahoo account. It's so much easier to use existing gmail and yahoo accounts for things. I'm experimenting with my personal photos. I can see using Flickr at the library, but we'll have to be careful about pictures of minors.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Thing 4.1
I started slowly adding photos to my flickr account. It was surprisingly easy to edit a picture, set up my first set, etc. and I'm moving slightly from hatred to toleration. I still can't get my flickr account to let me put a picture here. When I grab the code, blogger says it's an invalid url, even though it opens if pasted into a note pad or Word doc. I'll keep trying, although I'm going to move on to thing 5 very, very soon.
It also wants me to make a blog there, which just isn't going to happen. How many blogs is enough? (The answer is: none.)
It also wants me to make a blog there, which just isn't going to happen. How many blogs is enough? (The answer is: none.)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Thing 4.0
OK. I've taken several good looks at Flickr, have barely scratched the surface, and may I say again how much I hate working with pictures and graphics?
It just isn't an easy match.
I easily uploaded my first picture, but all the other stuff - the tagging, the licenses, the groups, the pools, the sharing my photos with strangers, all of that just raises my anxiety level.
It was a great big stretch for me to just start taking the occasional digital photo - the previous post mentioned the camera at work, but didn't state that it hadn't visited the library before. Ever. I'm not ready for this much sharing of my private life. Granted, there isn't that much that would be all that interesting.
It just isn't an easy match.
I easily uploaded my first picture, but all the other stuff - the tagging, the licenses, the groups, the pools, the sharing my photos with strangers, all of that just raises my anxiety level.
It was a great big stretch for me to just start taking the occasional digital photo - the previous post mentioned the camera at work, but didn't state that it hadn't visited the library before. Ever. I'm not ready for this much sharing of my private life. Granted, there isn't that much that would be all that interesting.
Thing 3.75
Working on Thing 4, but not very quickly.
As a prelude to blogging about thing 4, I took some photos at story hour. The local royalty from Litchfield's Watercade Festival visited Family Story Hour and read to the children. The children, who happened to all be little girls, were entranced.
The next morning, I took more pictures at Preschool Story Hour. We were rocking to the music from Punk Farm. The author welcomes pictures and letters from young fans, so I might just email him about our story time.
I signed up for an account at flickr, which was very easy since it's part of yahoo now. The ubiquitous yahoo, still a web presence after all these years.
This directly addresses one of my concerns about privacy vs. the new open attitude of web 2.0. I am not comfortable posting pictures from our children's programs online, even with parental permission. The Watercade Royalty I don't worry about, since they are in photos all the time.
Another issue is that currently the library camera isn't working. So I dashed home and brought my digital camera. Whose job is it to make sure a digital camera is available for library use? Not mine. :)
As a prelude to blogging about thing 4, I took some photos at story hour. The local royalty from Litchfield's Watercade Festival visited Family Story Hour and read to the children. The children, who happened to all be little girls, were entranced.
The next morning, I took more pictures at Preschool Story Hour. We were rocking to the music from Punk Farm. The author welcomes pictures and letters from young fans, so I might just email him about our story time.
I signed up for an account at flickr, which was very easy since it's part of yahoo now. The ubiquitous yahoo, still a web presence after all these years.
This directly addresses one of my concerns about privacy vs. the new open attitude of web 2.0. I am not comfortable posting pictures from our children's programs online, even with parental permission. The Watercade Royalty I don't worry about, since they are in photos all the time.
Another issue is that currently the library camera isn't working. So I dashed home and brought my digital camera. Whose job is it to make sure a digital camera is available for library use? Not mine. :)
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