The Question
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:03:25 +0000
From: Ingrid Harrald <ingrid@inletkeeper.org>
I currently coordinate a small group of water quality monitoring volunteers. Our protocols require our volunteers to photo-document their site (both upstream and downstream). We have yet to find an efficient way to organize and store our photos. Are there any other groups that do this, and if so, how do you organize your photos?
Thanks for your help!
Ingrid
Responses
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:15:04 -0400
From: Eric Eckl <eric.eckl@waterwordsthatwork.com>
Ingrid,
You should check out an online photo service called Flickr: www.flickr.com
What's really great about Flickr is you can assign multiple tags to each photo, such as: Pennsylvania, Susquehanna, Fishing, 2006, children, etc...
Then you can search your collection by keyword. Once you get the hang of it, it's a big improvement over putting your pictures into folders.
Free Flickr accounts are free. Pro Flickr accounts are cheap.
Good luck with your search.
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Eric Eckl
Water Words That Work
P.O. Box 2182
Falls Church, VA 22042-2182
(703) 822-4265
Cell: (703) 635-4380
eric.eckl@waterwordsthatwork.com
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:04:57 -0400
From: Carolyn Sibner <hvama.carolyn@adelphia.net>
Hi Ingrid,
Shutterfly.com is another online photo service that is also free and well
organized. You can also have it print out your photos with captions on the
back, at no extra cost, so you don't have to write on the date and location
by hand.
I also downloaded their software for free and use it to organize and fix my
photos on my computer.
Hope this helps,
Carolyn
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:00:12 -0700
From: ED <ed@spcwc.org>
Another way to go, if you maintain a website is to install free software
called Coppermine.
It is a great way to store and share your photos and key word searches are
included.
Check my site http://www.spcwc.org/photos
Mondy Lariz, Executive Director
Stevens & Permanente Creeks
Watershed Council
2353 Venndale Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
(408) 356-8258
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:35:20 -0400
From: Eric Eckl <eric.eckl@waterwordsthatwork.com>
Well, another advantage of Flickr (Disclosure: I'm a HUGE fan) is that a lot
of users have elected to share their photos for others to use.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Then you can start entering terms in the search box. If you like a photo,
you can use it according to whatever terms the photographer stipulates. So
Flickr is a great place to both keep the photos you took, and to find the
photos you wish you had taken.
For example, I put a post on my blog today that mentioned a rain garden. I
don't have a picture of a rain garden, but I found one on Flickr in about
two minutes. The photographer stipulated that others are free to use the
photo so long as they credit her. So I used the photo and credited her. Just
mouse over the photo to see the credit.
http://waterwordsthatwork.com/2007/07/25/groundwater-a-word-that-works-or-no
t/
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Eric Eckl
Water Words That Work
P.O. Box 2182
Falls Church, VA 22042-2182
(703) 822-4265
Cell: (703) 635-4380
eric.eckl@waterwordsthatwork.com
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