Fototastic 2011

Well, it's the last day of the year again so as usual I've done a quick video recap of the year of 2011 on the fototastic blog.

Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all enjoy seeing in the new year with style ;-)





...See you all in 2012

FriendFeed

Taking in to account some of the suggestions from Thomas Hawk's recent post I have joined FriendFeed so if you're a member then please feel free to subscribe to my feed and if you're not then why not join up. My profile can be seen HERE



You may have also noticed that I've changed my blog template back to the classic black one that I used in the past but adjusted the width so that Flickr photos can be posted in medium size without going off the screen. This will also allow me to post larger (non-Flickr) photos which I think will improve the blog.

Any comments or suggestions then please let me know.

Top Flickr Photos

Been getting in to reading a number of Blogs recently and noticed a post over at Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection titled Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr, All Fresh and New for 2008.

I found this post very interesting as I'm not getting many views/comments/favs on new posts to Flickr these days although I put a lot of that down to the fact that I'm not as active on the site as I used to be. I do still need to go through the site and clear out the dead wood and start posting some newer and better shots.

Started looking at my most "interesting" Flickr photos and it's fairly surprising, especially the #1 shot.

Here are my top 10 most interesting Flickr photos...


#1 - Modular Origami Creations


#2 - Slow Traffic Lights By Night


#3 - Naked Blue Flame


#4 - Light Side of the Moon


#5 - Dark & Light


#6 - PC Hard Drive Motor (Super Macro)


#7 - Blue Moon


#8 - Building NYC


#9 - Lava Lamp Macro


#10 - Infrared Cathedral

Photo Appears in Article

Over the weekend I was contacted by someone who wanted to use one of my photos in an online article that they were publishing on www.orato.com this week.

I was happy to let them use it as they said that I would receive credit for the image and also there would be a link from the article to My flickr Photos

The article has now been published and my picture appears on page 2 of www.orato.com/node/3230



It's not the first time that my photographs have appeared on sites but it's the first time that I've actually been asked! Looking on www.technorati.com I found that the same photo was used on someones Blog.



Slow Traffic Lights by Night was also used on another blog. I don't really mind as it's good that people like the photos enough to use them but it's always nice to ask!