Photos galore

I’ve found Flickr to be a great service for sharing photos. I’ve been using it for years now under the free account service, which limits you to 200 active photos. At first I thought that’d be more than enough but I quickly found it just isn’t, so I bit the bullet and forked over the $25. I know, I know…it’s only $25 but hey…it’s me.

And it seems I did so at the right time because with the upgrade I got an extra three months free. So I’m set for over a year and can now upload unlimited photos to Flickr (and videos too, apparently).

Not that there’s any new photos in there yet, but with this upgrade I’ll certainly be posting a lot more photos to the pool, many of which I’ll probably be using in posts here.

The one catch to the whole plan was bridging the gap between Picasa and Flickr. Picasa is a photo manager I’ve been using since I got a digital camera and have found it very nice and handy for organize and for touch-up. But Picasa is Google’s product and, of course, Google has their own on-line photo service so it doesn’t natively play well with Flickr.

But, naturally, someone figured out how to fix that problem. A quick look found the Picasa2Flickr plugin. And it works as advertised. It’s nothing fancy and doesn’t integrate with Picasa the way you might think, but it saves me the trouble of going into Picasa, finding the photos I want, then marking/copying them, then going to Flickr and uploading. So if the Picasa gap has hindered your Flickr-ing, no worries.

If you’re in the mood, stop by The Morning Toast on Flickr and peruse. During my own perusing I’ve found there are a lot of crappy pictures up there! Hopefully I can fix that real soon!