Jasonisms

If you haven't heard already, #Flickr is being acquired by SmugMug thus severing the photocommunity's relationship with Verizon/Yahoo. Hopefully, under the tutelage of SmugMug Flickr can replace Instagram as the world's go-to mobile sharing. I really do need less Facebook in my life. https://petapixel.com/2018/04/20/flickr-has-been-acquired-by-smugmug/

Found this little toy car at the dog park this morning while out walking the dummies. So, being who I am, I decided to take a picture of the little thing. Now, I should mention, this car is about the size of a Monopoly piece. The first image is the original; the second being edited with the Snapseed app on my phone; the third is the Snapseed edit run through the Tsu photo editor powered by  Aviary ; and the final, edited by the Flickr mobile app. Original: Straight Out of the Camera Edited With Snapseed Snapseed Edit Through Tsu Flickr App Edit As you can seen, each image has it's own merits. Well, except for the first one, that one's just terrible. I'm still trying to get used to the new camera on the new phone.

That was very annoying. A year ago I signed up for a Flickr account using my Google ID. Then sometime over the year Yahoo (which owns Flickr) decided only Yahoo ID owners may hold Yahoo property. Gah! In my desire to use Flckr on mobile I decided to revisit Flickr but Yahoo wouldn't take my Google sign-in credentials. Since I never used the service (I think I uploaded 3 images to it) I said screw it  and decided to just go ahead and create a Yahoo ID. On a whim I searched my Gmail account and found the "Welcome to Flickr" email and was able to log in from that email. Then Yahoo wanted me to create a Yahoo ID account since they were doing away with the Google sign-in option. Gah! However, the service wouldn't allow me to merge the existing account with the new Yahoo ID I'd just created. What a pain in the ass. After some twitching and twerking I was able to log into Yahoo with my Google ID and deleted the account, which was also a pain in the ass: enter ...

Whoa! Flickr is getting serious! Free? Terabyte? Full resolution? Did I say, free? I've never used Flickr, preferring Picasaweb (Google+ Photos) for my storage needs, but this offer is tempting, indeed. Nearly unlimited full-resolution uploads? I'm stunned! Stunned, I say! What's Flickr's endgame? Are they just upping the ante, knowing full well that Facebook probably won't, Google already had unlimited uploads (with a Google+ account and at a lower resolution) and most other services with this offer are pay-to-play? Read TechCrunch's article on the move by Yahoo to revamp Flickr.