A picture I found on Flickr

Forget Dewey! Now we know the solution for those, "Ummm...it had a blue cover" reference queries. And it looks so pretty!

Interestingness

Apparently, this is my most "Interesting" photo on my Flickr page. I think the "interestingness" must be based on a combination of number of times viewed and number of comments. This one got to the top of my list because my sister made a comment, so I had views and comments. I had another one which had more views, but this one was rated the most "interesting". Interesting.

Flickr fun with Bubblr

I found this tool on the Flickrbits Webapps page. If you try this, make sure you check it all before you finish, as the finished product can't be edited, and remains on the page for all to see (typos and all!)...ooops!

Flickr

I've been exploring Flickr since I came back from the Web 2.0 seminar at the State Library in July, (I was pretty addicted for a while), so I've done a few things since then. But this week I've tried some new Flickr toys like the Motivational poster maker on the BigHugeLabs site. This is what I ended up with:

It's a bit cheesy isn't it? I used a photo of some books from our collection, which I uploaded to Flickr. I aslo tried the Montager, but couldn't get it to work. There were'nt many options on the page, so I'm not sure where I went wrong. I've also had trouble getting the link to Mappr to work. If anyone has any tips on these I'd appreciate comments.

I've found that it's a little time consuming when you're starting with these things, as you have to sign up and there's usually an email to reply to etc etc...but once you're set up it's pretty easy to use, and I find myself getting lost for a while sometimes in the Explore page, especially if I start looking at other people's favourites....so many photos!

A note to my fellow Glenelg bloggers, I've started a Flickr group with the highly original title of "Glenelg Libraries", so please join in! You'll find it here

I really like Flickr. It's great fun for browsing and playing, and it has even motivated me to read the instruction manual for my camera again!


Apart from the tool I used to create the heading above, which I found here , one of my favourite flickr tools is from BigHugeLabs. It's a Palette Generator, which automatically generates a palette of colours based on any photo you choose from your Flickr library. Most importantly, it gives you the HTML codes for the colours, which you can cut and paste into Blogger, to change the colours of your Blog. It all looks beautiful because the colours are all in the lovely tones of your favourite photograph.


Here's an example of one I've done: