Backup Your Flickr Images

Flickr is easily the most popular photo sharing site and it is very easy for dedicated users to quickly amass a large volume of images on the service. But what happens when you leave the service? Or even if Flickr disappeared? Do you have local copies of all your images? Backing up, whether it be [...]

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Flagcrackers

As promised in my last post, here’s a shot of the Flagcrackers – a traditional folk dance troop (think morris dancers) from North Yorkshire. Although this type of dancing goes back a long way, the Flagcrackers were established over 20 years ago. Since then they have danced at events everywhere from Eire to Belgium and [...]

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Ravens of the Castle

The Leeds Flickr Group had a day out in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire today. The weather was perfect and turnout good. Within the walls of Knaresborough Castle are several Ravens which are looked after by Her Majesty’s Keeper of Castle Ravens, Knaresborough! They’ve been hand reared and so aren’t afraid of humans and you could get [...]

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Print your own camera

Sometimes, despite all the advances in camera technology and the increase in mega-pixels and sensor size, its the simpler things that bring the most joy! This is definitely the case with one Flickr user – Dippold – who has shared a template to build your own camera. A perfect little project to keep you from [...]

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Five Questions

If you follow the Flickr Blog, you may have seen that they’ve been doing a set of interviews with users call ‘five questions‘ . Well over in the Leeds Flickr Group one of the members started a similar thread. I’ll be answering the questions in the thread over there but thought it might be a [...]

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