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Hi all,

Looking to start using my Flickr a bit more for things other than using it as a platform to link images to other sites. Interested mainly in seascape & landscape stuff and become involved in discussions and such in order to meet up with people etc.

So if anyone can recommend some decent groups to join that would be great, or if you use flickr yourself for seascapes/landscapes let me know your username so I can check out your stuff for a bit of inspiration (and no, I'm not on the hunt for followers as I'm not bothered in the slightest about being "popular") :).

Admins, please feel free to move this to a more appropriate section if needed.

Cheers,
Iain

My flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brookser/
 
This is an old discussion, but most of the comments I made on it are still valid and apply to Flickr as a whole, not just one group - http://www.flickr.com/groups/stphotographers/discuss/72157618700046089/ - getting feedback on Flickr is a tricky business, best summed up by saying that over a period of time you'll generally get back what you put in. You need to make comments and give feedback in order to get the same in return.
 
All you'll get on Flickr is praise, or a slagging off. Either of which are utterly useless unless they also tell you why they're praising you, or slagging you off. Real crit on Flickr is a rare thing indeed.

Personally I'd avoid the Flickrverse. Just use it as some useful free storage. Just too many people talking b******s on there.
 
Pookeyhead said:
All you'll get on Flickr is praise, or a slagging off. Either of which are utterly useless unless they also tell you why they're praising you, or slagging you off. Real crit on Flickr is a rare thing indeed.
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So.. much the same as TP then.
 
I'm currently locked out flickr because, reasons, (yahoo ate my PW and I'm attempting to get it back via e-mail) but my advice is to find local photography groups in your area via groups and photographs of your home area and add members as friends. I met a older gentleman with donkey's years of experince who became my mentor this way.
 
@XA2inmypocket

"Photography’s strength comes from the visceral, emotional responses it evokes. But the
capacity to spark Rorschach reactions gives photography both its power and its problems
(Harper 2002). Interpretation, judgment, and imagination move to the eyes of the beholder.
The personality, cultural values, and ideologies of the viewer, as well as the context in which
the images are presented, all shape the meaning of pictures (Berger 1972).

Letting a picture speak its thousand words can result in a thousand deceptions."

(cited from Schonberg 2002).
 
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” Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other.”

William Eggelston
 
XA2inmypocket said:
The difference is that on Flickr, we as photographers, mainly talk through images, where as here, many people prefer to use words for some reason?
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And most of our words here have very little to do with photography.

I challenge anyone to find criticism/critique on TP that's any better than that found on Flickr. They can start with the birding sub-forum, which as far as I can see is mostly ritualised abuse within a small clique and shouting negative comments at new members that dare make a post.


.. one of these days we need to organise a Fenland meet..
 
Rapscallion said:
” Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other.”

William Eggelston
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Interesting that a great deal of his books have words in them then.
 
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