bigevilempire

Photography has never been a big thing for me. My first experience with photography actually started from a free Sony Cyber-shot digital camera that I won at a company's Christmas party.

Before that Christmas present, I absolutely have nothing to do with photography. I find it troublesome to take photos, develop them and store them in a photo album. It is a tad too cumbersome to share those albums. They typically ended up collecting dust and stashed somewhere in the house. Like the main theme in the story of my life, technology came along and changed everything. That Sony digital camera was a no-brainer and photos taken with that camera often turned out really good. I began to develop some interest in photography.

That solved half the problem. It became easier to take photos, and with digital photos there is no need to develop them. I could just view them on any computer. Now that I have photos, how do I store them somewhere accessible and never really have to worry about losing them when a hard disk crashes. And we all know they do.

Along came Flickr.

Till this day, Flickr is one of the rare web services that I swear by. It really had me taking photos and posting them online for sharing and archiving. It is just so much easier. Today, I actually own a Canon Digital IXUS 70 and a Flickr Pro account. I am a proud owner of 4918 photos in Flickr, organized into 48 album sets. Flickr made a photographer out of me, albeit an amateur hobbyist.

This photo is one of my recent addition.

Like I say, just a hobbyist. Be nice.

For anyone considering storing and sharing photos online, I would recommend Flickr in the blink of an eye. Albums, permissions, comments, an upload tool... they have it all thought up nicely.

In case you are wondering, I am not affiliated to Flickr or Yahoo in any way and they did not pay me a single dime for this.

I just think that it is a web service that simply works.