I spent a lot of Sunday uploading quilt photos to Flickr. I also spent Monday night, Tuesday night and a little while this evening on the project. I believe that I now have all of my digital quilt photos up on Flickr. In any case, there are about 3500 pictures of quilts.
Some observations:
1. I used to take a lot fewer photos than I do now.
2. Adding the digital photos to Flickr is wonderful, because you can organize them in sets. Each photo can be in multiple sets. This means that the Pineapple photo on the right (as usual, if this is your quilt, I will be THRILLED to put your name here!) is in the PIQF 2003 set as well as the Pineapple set (kind of like iTunes allows you to have one song in multiple playlists). I love this! It allows me to think about quilts in a number of different ways.
3. 2003 and three was a good year for quilts. The quilts are more vibrant (less brown, I guess) than now. The designs are good and the techniques are top notch.
4. I scrolled through many, many of the photos as I tried to organize them and it is quite wonderful just to look at a bunch of different quilts.
5. My photography has gotten better.
6. I was also able to discover interesting quilts about which I had forgotten, including a few more Pineapples hidden in the dark corners of my hard drive. .
7. I wish I could blog sets of photos, but it doesn’t seem like I can. Perhaps I can add a link to an entire set of quilts, so you can see them as I blog about them? Here is a link to a set of tree quilts. You can tell me if it works.
I am considering sending my prints off to someplace like Shoebox reprints and getting rid of the boxes and boxes of quilt photos that I have under my desk and in my bottom drawer. I really don’t know what I will do in the long run with all of these quilts on Flickr, but for the moment it is interesting to me. We’ll see what develops.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day.
The link to the tree quilts works. Ravishing, aren’t they? It sounds like a good idea to link to a set of pictures in a blog.
The flowering snowballs are looking good-I recognise that green Kaffe Fasset print! I have used its darker brother in my latest piece.
Good to know. I love the trees that I have been seeing. Thanks! I am pleased with the way the Flowering Snowballs are coming out. It is fun to use the larger prints on it as well. I haven’t uploaded all of those photos to Flickr, but will.
I’m annoyed at Flickr right now. So, you pay to store there? Still trying to decide what to do with all my photo jpgs.
So, you are saying you want to put your old paper photos online (or disk?) and get rid of them!? I’m confused. Wouldn’t you want the real thing as back up at the very least?
Well, when you put it that way, it does sound kind of cheesy and a waste of money. Perhaps I made the wrong decision? It was a good thing to do while I was cajoling the child to do his homework project. I also liked the way I could put the same photos into different sets.
Yes, I am going to put all of my quilt photos into digital format, so they can scroll across the screen and I can actually see them occasionally. I never look at the paper ones now. Other photos, I do keep the paper and will, hopefully, put them in albums someday. Don’t hold your breath.