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Flickr and Zooomr and Sobriquet, Oh My!

Well, if you can’t already tell - I’ve been having fun! Not only have I totally re-designed my site (if you only ever read these posts as emails, get your butt over to http://sobriquet.net), I’ve been having lots of fun with Flickr (especially playing around with geotagging my photos - which basically means embedding GPS co-ordinates in them, so you can see where I’ve taken the photos).

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On the geotagging note, I’ve also decided to try out a new photo sharing site, called Zooomr (with 3 O’s). While they’re not quite as advanced as Flickr in terms of features and usability (yet!), they’re definitely taking online photo sharing to a new level. On the surface, Zooomr looks a lot like Flickr. It does, however, have some interesting additions - such as the ability to geotag photos directly on the site, and the ability to add audio comments to photos. I’m still trying to figure out how to USE some of the features (it’s not well documented, and some of the features don’t seem to be particularly intuitive), but on the whole, it looks like an interesting product! I was going to try and include a geotagged Zooomr photo as a demo, but for some reason, I can’t seem to get it working just yet - when I uploaded my photos, Zooomr seemed to strip out all the data (EXIF/IPTC) I’d already included with the pictures! Oops! In the mean time, enjoy this photo I took in Europe in 2003.

Oh, and with the site re-design, you might noticed some new photos in the top banner - the funky coloured ones (my favourites!) were taken in a “luminarium” which graced our shores during the Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games

Ok, so it’s been a while. But, if you have checked back recently, you may have noticed a couple of changes. Well, ok - maybe just one change (which shows itself in a few different places). Basically, I’ve added a new page - “Photography“. Here you can see all of my favourite photos, while I’ve still got the “Family and Friends” photos separate from this site, at http://gallery.sobriquet.net. All the photography photos are also up on Flickr - you may remember me talking about Flickr a while back?

luminarium 047 Anyway, the main purpose of this post was to show you some photos I took while the Commonwealth Games were in Melbourne. Sure, so I didn’t see any of the sporting events, but there were some very funky things happening for the festival. I’ve got some photos of the “luminarium” which was on St Kilda beach (made by the “Architects of Air“, and of the city at night, including the “Fish” which lined the Yarra while the games were on. All these photos are in the commonwealth games 2006 album. Enjoy!

My 23rd at Puggs

And on a more positive note - I’ve finally put up photos from Puggs last weekend when I went out with some friends to celebrate my birthday!

I arranged to meet people on Lygon street, thinking we’d easily be able to find somewhere to go out to dinner. Well, not so easy. So, we ended up just going to the pub for dinner, but it was nice anyway! (I had a nice Irish stew - how fitting for an Irish pub!)

Anyway, check out the album.


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