Flickr with a side of Mashups

Continuing with the play of exploring Flickr, I had a lot of fun with the Flickr Color Pickr. It amuses me that I could bounce around on various color choices and the pics matching that color shade would appear. The Montagr disappointed me actually. I love photo montages, and was curious to see how the application worked. I realize the difficulty in finding images that match the various shades in an image in order to create the montage but in very few could I make out what was supposed to be the original image. Thinking about it now, maybe I should have stood a few feet away from the computer screen in order to “see” the image. One part of the app that I liked was the ability to scroll over the images and have individual ones “pop up”. My favorite of the ones I looked at, though, has to be the Trading Card Maker, in which one of the groups is the Librarian Trading Cards. No, I have not created one for myself (though I briefly entertained the idea) but enjoyed clicking on them to read about others in libraryland. Oddly enough, I didn’t see any library folk I know though….

Flickr!

I could just get lost in Flickr, bouncing from one thing to another. I have been on Flickr before, but only for looking at family and friend's uploaded photos. I have never really felt the need to upload images there. I have a personal myspace and facebook account, and usually upload images to share on those. The image I chose to upload to my blog was of the annual hot air balloon festival held in my hometown, uploaded by gilesclement. I do not own one, nor do I actually ride in one (my fear of heights keeps me from doing that) but the simple beauty of lighted ballon against the background of the night sky is magic beyond words.