Here are some videos that Jen and I shot while at Disney for Christmas.
Grand Floridian - Music in the background is a live brass band on the second floor. Santa is sitting next to the tree spreading his holiday cheer on Christmas Eve. Jen and I with Santa
Candle Light Processional at Epcot – The narrator is Gary Sinise from Forrest Gump. He recited the Nativity scene while the orchestra and choir sang.
As you probably know I post a lot of my pictures on flickr. Today I saw this link which is a slide show of the best of flickr. I highly recommend flickr and would tell everyone to check it out. Buy the flickr pro, it’s worth it.
[tags]flickr, best of, photography[/tags]
Do you have a Flickr Pro account? Do you want to print your images on Business like cards? Well you are all set! Last night Andy sent me an instant message about moo.com. It simply said something like “Go to moo.com to get some free stuff. Only for Flickr.com Pro users.” When I got over to the site I saw that you can get 10 free cards with your flickr images printed on the front and anything your want on the reverse. This is such a good concept. Here is how it works.
First your must have a Flickr Pro account
This is a marvelous idea. What a great use of the Flickr API. I ordered my 10 free ones yesterday. Hopefully the quality is good because I may be in the market to purchase 100 cards. Heck its only $19.95 for 100! For start-ups and especially photographers this is a great idea for business cards. Display your work on your cards. I will probably be writing about the process and quality once I receive the cards.
Flickr.com released a new functionality this week for there users, GeoTagging. This is a very cool function. It allows you to place your images on a map so that you can virtually see where the picture was taken from. As of now Flickr is the only company out there using this functionality, and it has been a success so far. TechCrunch is reporting that with in the first 24 hours of allowing users to geotag, they have had 1.2 million images placed on a map. However, Fickr will not be the only company getting into this arena. Google’s Picasa is in the works of adding geotagging and will be available to place images on Google earth application. This is still in the beta stages so Flickr will have a pretty good gathering of users before Google can get there application released.
I like the idea of geotagging because it allows a person to search for pictures based on a particular location. Though, I thought it was very time consuming to add images to the map. Flickr allows you to drag and drop an image or a set of images that you want to be geotagged. Hopefully in the future camera makers will add a small GPS chip to the camera which will add metadata to the photo with the latitude and longitude of the picture when it was shot. This would then allow you to easily be able to geotag your photos.
Many people are talking about Flickr’s Geotagging and I would call this a success for yahoo in the web2.0 (if that’s what you want to call it) war. Yahoo has beaten Google in picture geotagging.
[tags]Flickr, GeoTagging, Picasa, Yahoo, Google, Web2.0[/tags]
