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Showing posts with label Posterous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Posterous. Show all posts
Friday, 25 February 2011
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Facebook, mud and catkins....
So far so interesting. There is a huge amount of things to start to learn about facebook and I am just talking the first few steps. It is quite intriguing though. I have spent the morning working out how to link things to my account. The afternoon was for play - wellies mud and catkins..
One of the main things I have been working on is linking my web presence and finding ways of supporting each in the most efficient way. This is where Posterous comes in. Initially I used this service as an easy way to post blog updates from my iPhone. It worked really well - you write a quick email and post it to Posterous and bang the content flows to wherever. It was also posted to my Posterous blog site which, if I am honest, I never looked at as I was using Blogger.com. However, with the arrival of facebook I am now not so dismissive, indeed there may come a time when I stop working on blogger and just use support Posterous. This, though, is unlikely as blogger.com is part of Google and you would hope that this would give the service an edge when searches are made on Google. The second reason why this might not happen is that Posterous is so easy to use that I don't have to do anything and both blogs are updated.
Having spent the morning starting to understand facebook this afternoon I felt like doing something more creative. On came the wellies and I was out splatting through the mud in my local park. What is it with me and mud? Well there was a serious reason for this. I wanted to capture some catkin photographs and now is the right time to do that. Sure enough there was a great show of catkins and I will enjoy working through the images over the next day or so. Now do I publish them to flickr or facebook? Decisions Decisions.
Simon Marchini LRPS
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
A Facebook new boy....
Well I have gone and done it - I've joined Facebook. At the moment I feel very much like a new boy at school - everything is very new and just a little frightening but I am sure over the weeks and months ahead this will change - I hope so anyway.
I have some help in this whole new endeavour - my son is a veteran facebooker - 4 years which I think makes him almost there at the start. I am trying to link all my updates into one place so I am using Posterous to publish this to face book and blog. If there was a photo attached then this would also go to Flickr as well. This should make things a whole lot easier - lets hope so.
Well here goes - I just about to test the system.
Simon Marchini LRPS
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Friday, 1 January 2010
Start of something good....
As I look at this I can't help but think of David Hockney. Over the past few months I have become more aware of his work - especially his later work around the Wolds of East Yorkshire. Now I don't at what level this may have influenced me, if at all, but I feel it is there. Perhaps Calke Abbey has a similar effect that the Wolds has on Hockney, my family does have deep connections with this area - although I suspect the game keepers of old may have been less than charitable about my ancestors - but that is a whole new story.
Back to the present. This has been a great start I hope that it's a portent for the year. This, of course, is nonsense but you always have to live in hope. One final thing about blogging. The earlier blog entry I wrote live, actually in the woods and I found this a very powerful thing to do. Whether the prose were any good is not the point. It helped me clarify what I was experiencing - always important when dealing with any artistic endeavour. Anyway onwards and upwards.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Reflective mood....
Perhaps it is the winter chill or more likely the year ending has started me off in a reflective mood and how the last few months have worked out.
The year started with high hopes which were soon dashed as I had to withdraw from the MA course. At the time this seemed like a big thing but now with benefit of some distance it was not. I hadf wanted to do the course but the reality is that I just like making the photographs that I do rather than for any greater academic purpose.
I'm starting to get the itch to go out to the east coast for the day - probably over the Christmas period - boxing day or new year's day are usually good as people recover from their previous days and nights activities the last thing they want to do is go out and bird watch. Mandy and I had a wonderful day at Rutland Water one boxing day. The place was deserted apart from the wildlife. Brilliant.
So what will the new year bring? Who knows other than more interesting experiences to enjoy. One of these I suspect may well come via flickr. I have spent the last few weeks working on this and slowly it appears to be paying dividends. It is such a wonderful way of experiencing photography from all over the world. There is a whole range of photographs from the best you will see any where to some which you wonder why put them out there - but that is the beauty of flickr - you just don't know what you are going to see. One of the down side of flickr is that your photography will appear in all sorts of strange places - to date my work has appeared in eco warrior news letters and anger management blogs. This can be frustrating but if you publish your work on flickr it is something that you have to come to terms with.
The contacts list is slowly growing. To date I have people who are interested in my photography from all the fours corners of the globe - the latest is from Qatar. This means that my work is being enjoyed by wider group of people than I would ever have hoped for. It also means that I get to experience their views on photography and this has as much to do with their culture and location as their respective photographic skills. It is a fascinating journey.
Another thing I will probably be exploring is the updating the blog on the go. The Posterous experience is catching - it is so simple - especially when using the iPhone. One note of caution though - it can be a long winded thing uploading photos if you are out of reach of a 3G network
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Watermead
The noise and furry of a large group of swans is a sight to see. It is made worse by the birds expectation to be feed. Pandamonium is let loose when some actually does feed them. Makes taking photos easier though!
I'm on line at: www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac http://simonmarchini.blogspot.com www.simonmarchini.co.uk I hope you enjoy
Friday, 4 December 2009
Getting all web 2.0...
As you may have noticed from the last few posts in quick succession I have been trying out Posterous. This is a service that lets you upload to numerous web apps at the same time. So far it seems to work well. All you have to do is set up a simple account with Posterous and then select the other web apps you want to send your stuff to and that is it. It is really simple. However, there are one or two issues - all minor I have found so far.
The first is that the text appears unformatted. This means if you want to maintain a look and feel for something - such as this blog - you can't or at least I have yet to discover how to. The second is posting photos to flickr. I use quite a lot of keywords in my photos and these usually transfer over to flickr. Again, at the moment this doesn't happen. Also you can't post photos to sets by this method - as you can when posting to flickr directly.
However, given these minor problems, which I may well find an answer to over the coming days, the service appears to be really quite efficient. One entry and you are done.
I found out about Posterous from the ever interesting podcast Art of Photography. It is worth checking out.
Finally I am out tomorrow playing with my toy. Hopefully I will have some interesting photos to post over the next day or so.
More iPhone tests
Like any new systems there are few teething problems. Hopefully this is the last test. Anyway here goes.
I'm on line at:
http://simonmarchini.blogspot.com
I hope you enjoy
Another iPhone attempt
Another posting from the iPhone. It really should only be used when I am out and about - typing is really difficult with th iPhone keyboard!
I'm on line at: www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac http://simonmarchini.blogspot.com www.simonmarchini.co.uk I hope you enjoy
Live from the iPhone...
I would be lying if I said this was taken with me iPhone. This for two reasons: first the iphone camera is not very good and second this photo is nearly 30 years old.
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