Flickr

One lovely discovery I made in wading through the links associated with this exercise was a picture of my street, taken in the early years of the 20th century. It is held in the Brisbane City Council photo collection, and is on Picture Australia. Despite the fact that I have trawled through Picture Qld for this purpose on more than one occasion, it never occurred to me to look in PA or BCC as well. Wouldn't mind an enlargement, to see if the house peeking in from the side of the image is mine! Flickr is a whole universe of imagery. At home, I use Picasa Web Albums, and I confess to not yet being completely comfortable with the idea of our family photos being quite so public. I feel that I'm likely to go so far as tagging my own photos, but probably wouldn't comment on other people's. This is probably a lack of time thing, as much as anything. Can't imagine having enough time to do that, although it might depend on the subject of the photo. The Library of Congress initiative to put difficult to identify photos onto Flickr is great. You never know who is out there who could provide information about them.