You’ve probably noticed by now the row of 4 pictures that jumps in before any text. This is my latest flickr photo feed. Revjim got me hooked on flickr once I found out that they accepted emailed photos. It is basically a combination of a (public or private) photo gallery and a weblog, with free accounts being limited to 20MB of uploaded pictures per month. If you don’t have a flickr account yet, get one today for free and start sharing your pictures quickly and easily online. Flickr also has groups and tags, which are tools for sharing and organizing your images. I started the San Gabriel Mountains group this weekend as a place for anyone to share images of outdoors activities or photography from the San Gabriels. Suprisingly, the group already has a second member after just a couple of days.

Now that you are all on the same level with respect to flickr, I’ll get down to the real meat of the issue. I have been using gallery for a couple of years to store and organize my pictures online. Uploading and sorting on gallery is easier than flickr for a large number of pictures, like the newly added Rome Uncut gallery, which has over 300 images from our Honeymoon. A number of these images have been ‘upgraded’ to the appropriate Photography gallery, I’ve just been too busy to highlight any of them here lately, which brings up my ultimate point.

While gallery is great for organizing and storing the large collection of images, flickr provides (through an rss feed grabbed with magpierss) an easy way to show recent images so they actually get out there. I’ve tried to work up gallery’s rss to get somewhat of the same functionality without too much success. On one hand, it would be great if flickr would feed me all of my moblogs through the feed, while not feeding non-moblog images. Then, assuming I could make gallery feed me only the recent photography shots, I could have a feed for each. So far I havent’ been able to make that happen. Ideas?

In the meantime, I’ll try to post some of my more recently added shots here, so that they don’t get buried away in the annals of the gallery and forgotten for good. Here are a couple to start with…