June 16, 2013

New online photo gallery

Baarlo, Limburg

I’ve made changes again to my online photo storage. I alternate between wanting to use a third-party service like Flickr and hosting them myself.

It probably makes more sense to use Flickr, because they will stay there indefinitely without costing me anything (although I have a Pro account) and there’s a user community to share and comment on pictures.

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More pictures of Mile End

Train at Mile End

I took a few more photos around Mile End this afternoon and added them to my Flickr set.

The railway station is about 400 metres from my place. I hear the freight trains go through at night.

For suburban trains, Mile End is on the Belair, Noarlunga and Tonsley lines. It is the nearest stop to Adelaide, just two kilometres away.

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Mile End, South Australia

Junction Street, Mile End

This post contains images of Mile End, South Australia, and surrounding areas including Thebarton, Keswick and the western Adelaide parklands.

The set can also be viewed on Flickr.

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Picture Australia

Picture Australia

Today I discovered the outstanding Picture Australia website.

According to the About page: Picture Australia is an internet-based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time.

When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results.

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Lots of angry residents

angry residents

There are lots of angry people in the world and local newspapers do a good job of reporting them. In fact, local newspapers would struggle to fill their pages if it wasn’t for all the anger out there.

A dedicated website publishes press photographs of angry people. As the author says: “I feel sorry for local news photographers. They are hugely skilled and poorly paid, and sent out to photograph miserable people pointing at dog turds. Here, we celebrate their work.”

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