Flickr Post-A-Picture
I upgraded to a Pro flickr account on the weekend, and am testing its blog-a-shot feature. If you’re reading this, then it’s working.
The feature is a cool concept too: you upload pictures (or email them), annotate them, and show them off to your friends. To make a blog post, you click on the blog-this button on any picture page, and pick the weblog to post to (and it does the rest). You can select a template for the post too, which is cool in itself.
The reason I decided to upgrade was to up my bandwidth for this month, as I decided to make a book of photos for a gift later this year. There’s a funky service that will print a full-colour, bound book for a reasonable price — all from a flickr account.
For my first book, I picked 80 photos and turned them into contrasty black and white shots, leaving a few (carefully selected) spots of colour. I’m curious to see how it turns out, as a few of the shots were less than 300 DPI.