FastMover

FastMover
Originally uploaded by JwS.

FlickrExporter & photoblogs

I, like thousands of others use Flickr for my photo sharing needs. With the advent of the sale of Flickr to Yahoo I am sure it will become even more widely known. I had started my photo blog on Blogger and found there was no native upload tool from Blogger for Mac users. Blogger recommended Flickr, so I took a look. Flickr does indeed have a very easy tool to move photos from Flickr to Blogger, and several other blog hosts. By using both I have in effect two photo blogs, one on each host. The Blogger photo blog is to my taste the more "serious", while the Flickr blog is more relaxed. Flickr also has several features that I like, one of which are tags, whereby you can assign a tag to any or all of your shots and when a search is done on that tag, you get to see everyones photos, for example,
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/whatsinyourbag, try it! Being an ardent Mac Powerbook, OS X user I am always on the lookout for cool life hacks and tools to make life more fun. I enjoy using iPhoto and came across a hack to upload photos directly from iPhoto to flickr! It is called FlickrExporter, and was written by Fraser Speirs. It is a plugin and works very well and is available here, http://speirs.org . Spread the word, keep the faith.

the groom...

the groom...
Originally uploaded by JwS.

I felt like I should post a new picture, as I do want this to continue to be a photo blog.

...the joy of WiFi...

I have been wireless on my Powerbook for sometime now, but am learning all the time. One the the joys of wireless that I had heard about and looked forward to was the freedom of communication, anywhere anytime.....so I am at my local Snohomish County Library, in Monroe trying to figure out why I can't send eMail......well then I learned about SMTP servers and authentication. This brought an abrupt halt to anywhere anytime! [Insert aside here] Well that was a shock....in order to use all of the editing tools of Blogger I have to use Firefox, as Blogger does not yet fully support Safari![end aside] Ok, where was I ?, oh, SMTP servers....I was searching one day for cool software for my Powerbook , just to see what other folks are using, and I came across this killer hack. This article tells how to use the OS X BUILT IN MAIL SERVER to make your own SMTP server!! This is apperantly standard equipment on UNIX, which OS X is of course, but who knew? I carefully followed the directions and it works like a charm! Thanks David.

...yes, words too !

I intended to make this a photo only blog. After some consideration I decided to post thoughts and opinions on a vast array of subjects as my mood directs. As to photography, I am back to taking pictures after a home and studio move. The light here in Monroe has been very soft and beautiful, I should have been working, but who says should? I have just recieved a new Sekonic light meter and will post a review soon.