To Flickr or Not to Flickr?
November 19, 2007 – 4:48 pmLately I have been thinking about how to better incorporate photos both into this site and my life in general. I have toyed around with an installation of Gallery2, which can be viewed here. It’s not a terrible solution, but it’s also not ideal. It certainly does not make it easy to incorporate photos into a Wordpress-powered blog. The most popular online photo alternative is Flickr, for which I currently have a free account.
Flickr offers both a free and a pro account option. The main restriction to a free Flickr account include only 100MB of uploading per calendar month. While the pro account costs $25 a year, it gives the user unlimited uploads, unlimited storage, and will even make you a sandwich*.
I’m debating whether or not the fee is worth it. Unfortunately, I’m not the best with photos or remembering to take them, as I always seem to forget my camera wherever I’m going. I’d like to get better about that. Like the old saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” So, I’ll leave you with this nifty badge that shows some of my photos. Click on the bottom link to see my entire Flickr photostream.
EDIT (November 21): I bit the bullet and upgraded to a Flickr pro account today. Check out my photostream.
* Not True
4 Responses to “To Flickr or Not to Flickr?”
I have an image gallery with ~6000 images using php gallery. It gives you a LOT of options for your photos that flickr doesn’t — run your own ads, watermarking, just to name a few.
I recently switched over to Flickr for various reasons.
*) I just switched from a 2MP to a 10MP camera.
*) My gallery setup was 3GB+, even using non originals. Now I put all of my 6MB+ originals on Flickr, and they’re retained in all their 10MP goodness.
*) Most of the bandwidth on my site was for google searches coming in on my images. Basically a waste of money on my part.
*) Flickr has a nice community of people that will actually see the images, and potentially care about it
By Ray on Nov 19, 2007
I’ve heard good things about Picasa as well.
The choice for me would come down to this. If I hosted my own site (which I do) and I want/need the extra flexibility of having the pics on my server then I would store the pics locally. But I don’t really have many pictures on my site.
By Jeff on Nov 19, 2007
I use Picasa for managing my photos. I don’t know much about their web app.
By Ray on Nov 20, 2007
Thanks for the tips, guys. I’m already at my upload limit for this month, mostly since I threw up a selection of older photos. I’ll most likely be upgrading to a Pro account soon.
By Chuck on Nov 20, 2007