Flickr and Slide Shows

Turns out that one can also create flickr slide shows, but only through third party add-ons (with Picasa it's done within the application). There are several out there--I chose slideflickr to create this one. It was very simple--just enter a user name and a couple of clicks later code is generated. Then paste the code into your blog or Web site.

Newbie's Guides from Webware

The Newbie's Guides from Webware are a good resource for brief capsule-type intros. Subjects so far are Facebook, Google Reader, flickr, and Twitter. Enjoy!

Bead Art from fd's flickr toys

Assignment #10 Play Around with Image Generators

At left is my Great Dane Dori, adopted from Harlequin Haven Great Dane Rescue. You may have seen her in my initial post about flickr. She is my youngest and smallest Dane--in fact we call her a "teacup" Dane because she is so small and delicate.

I created this version of Dori's flickr image with Bead Art from fd's flickr toys. There are four choices for the beads--I used the "disc" option.

Higher Paw-er by Mozart Dane

Higher Paw-er by Mozart Dane,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

This gorgeous 16" x 20" acrylic on canvas painting was created by Mozart, painting with his paws. Mozart paints to bring awareness to the plight of dogs in puppy mills and to raise funds to care for the homeless dogs at Harlequin Haven Great Dane Rescue. Mozart will be featured in a gallery show in December at the Mac Worthington Gallery on the Short North in Columbus, Ohio.

Margaret Boyd, Picasa, Gmail, and flickr, Oh My!

Margaret Boyd,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

Assignment #6 More Flickr Fun

Oh boy! Picasa, Gmail, and flickr all working together! I found a post that explained how to send your photos from Picasa to flickr by emailing the images within Picasa using its Email button. It just so happened that I used my Gmail account to do it, but I had a choice of using my work account. Whatever is in the body of the email serves as the flickr tags, while the title of the email serves as the image title.

Margaret Boyd was the first female graduate of Ohio University, in 1873. Photo courtesy Boyd Family Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio

This image, though I'm guessing at the date of creation, is old enough to be teetering on the brink of being in the Public Domain. Since we don't know who took the photo it would fall into the category of unpublished anonymous and pseudonymous works or work made for hire (corporate authorship). In this category works are under copyright for 120 years from date of creation, so only works created before 1887 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). If we knew the creator of the photo, it would fall into the category of unpublished work which remains under copyright for the life of the author + 70 years--only works from authors who died before 1937 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). As you might now guess, unpublished works have a different schedule for entering the Public Domain. A wonderful reference on this is Peter Hirtle's page. Note that although I'm treating the image as PD, I'm still crediting/citing the repository.

Dori from flickr to You

Dori,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

So now I'm experimenting with posting my images from flickr to Blogger. It's fairly easy too, but as flickr is not a Google product it took a couple of extra steps more than my Picasa to Blogger posting.

This is my youngest Dane, Dori.