Awesome Guy On Flickr

Leanne showed me this guy on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/people/merkley/
This is a link to his "about me" page. Read it. It's awesome.
Then check out his photos. They, too, are awesome (and sexy).
Go have fun now.

NIN Photos

Just finished uploading the NIN photos.
You can find them here.
There are also plenty more photos to be found in the Super Fun Happy Times Group.
You probably also noticed (if you've been able to take your eyes off of me on the crapper) that I've added a Super Fun Happy Times badge down the bottom of the blog. It's fun to look at. Try it.

High Flyers

IMG_7733.JPG
Originally uploaded by Carafaele

Check 'em out... and count yourselves lucky I didn't upload the naked ones!

Shot-Glass Chess

Simon Is Caught By The Fuzz
Originally uploaded by Carafaele

For those of you who just can't get enough of seeing Simon semi-naked, photos of us playing shot-glass chess are now available at Simon and Leanne's Super Fun Happy Times.

Enjoy!

MORE photos from the Sunshine Coast

Tough
Originally uploaded by Carafaele

...at Simon & Leanne's Super Fun Happy Times.
The link is on the sidebar below/left. Check it out.

New Photos!

There are HEAPS of new photos to be seen at the Simon & Leanne's Super Fun Happy Times group - GO CHECK 'EM OUT!

There's some oldies:

There's some newbies (some stoned...shh):

And then there's just some plain beautiful ones:

Joined Jaiku

I succumbed.
You can now see my presence on the left-hand side of my page.
It will fill with my Flickr photos, del.icio.us boomarks, and (oddly enough) my Blog posts. It will also fill with any little messages I send it.
Let's see what it's like.

Canada's Next Top Model

These dogs are vying for the celebrated Cover Model position in the well-known Canadian Dog magazine "Animal Wellness".
The competition is fierce and brutal. All but one of these dogs will fail.
Who do you think will emerge as leader of the pack?

Oh the silly things I have to do...

Oh the silly things I have to do...
Originally uploaded by oreo.girl

I couldn't resist posting this photo for you guys!

It's a dog that can balance another dog on its head!

It's genius!

Hunter Valley Flooding

Some of our photos taken after the recent flooding in the Hunter Valley have been uploaded to our Flickr Group: Simon & Leanne's Super Fun Happy Times

Go check them out!

Err...

Orange Crush
Originally uploaded by Yankees Man

I don't even know what to say about this dog, though the words 'yikes' and 'holy shit' do come to mind...

It really is worth clicking on this photo and taking a look at the guys photostream, there are SO many totally awesome screwy pictures of this dog... FREAKY!

Wollombi on Flickr

There is a Flickr user called "Wollombi" where it seems that locals post their photos.
There are some great photos of the recent floods.
Check them out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wollombi
Wollombi was an island...

New Flickr Group for Simon & Leanne

Because Leanne and I have two different flickr accounts, and because we go to a lot of the same places and take photos together, we have decided to create a group where photos of our adventures together can be seen in one place - this will save you from having to visit both of our accounts.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/simonandleanne/
Such fun!
We will post any photos of events where we were sharing a camera.
If any of you become members, then you can even create discussions about stuff, but with so many other places to do this (MySpace), I doubt that will be a used feature.
Have fun!

Phallus Impudicus

This fungus has no idea why it is so popular with the laydees.

Originally seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnet0uk/239928872/

More Flickr Photos

I started uploading some older photos to Flickr last night. Not many. Some.
I have also started getting together a list of the events that I want to put up onto Flickr.
There are still more to come, and I still have to put up the high rez Infected Mushroom photos, too.
Take a look. Leave comments. It's fun.
I bet.

Finished Uploading TGE

Finally... geeze take forever.
I finally finished uploading the full rez Great Escape images. Man, I wish there was a way to do a batch replacement. It took me that long to do 45 photos.
I will do Infected Mushroom next (25 photos), and I think that will be the last of the photos that I uploaded at a reduced resolution.

Re-Uploading Some Flickr Photos

I'm spending my time at the moment re-uploading my Great Escape and Infected Mushroom photos onto Flickr. The reason is that when I started on Flickr, I resized my photos to save bandwidth when I uploaded them. Now that I'm a pro user, I figure I might as well upload the full-rez version, as it will come in handy if/when I want to print them later.
So I'm currently doing that, rather than going through the photos on my HDD and uploading some of the best of them.
And I'm a little bored, because there is no way (at the moment) to batch replace photos onto Flickr. Which kind of makes sense, until you search for the function and you find out how many people are in the same boat as me (having uploaded reduced rez images when they were a free user). And seeing as I left the title of the photos as their filename, it wouldn't be hard to implement. Just noone has yet.
Why don't I just batch upload them again, like I did the first time? Because I have already created links for them, and I don't want them to change. I'd also lose their descriptions, comments, geocoding, any groups they were put in, as well as the sets they are in. So yes. A bit of a pain.
When it's done I will start going through my older photos and uploading some of them. Hot.

Possible moblog photo upgrade

Hmmmmmmmm... last night I had an idea.
My phone runs on MMC cards, which are half size SD cards (without the "security")... this means a MMC to SD adaptor is a common piece of equipment (there was one in my bag when it was stolen, and I think Alex has one kicking around... but I might be wrong... because, unfortunately, one of his memory cards was in my bag when it was stolen... and it had photos of his on, too).
Anyway.
Basically, I thought that if I had an MMC to SD adaptor, I could easily pop my phone memory card into my Canon, take a photo, pop in back into my phone and upload it to my blog/flickr. All on the move. Which would yield much nicer pictures than my camera phone does at the moment. Which is handy when your photographing mushroom pies.
Of course there are a few problems.

1. I'm not sure I have (or can get) an adaptor
2. My phone may not look for pictures in the DCIM/Canon1xx folder
   
3. A 2-4MB image will take a lot longer to upload than the 400Kb images I am uploading at the moment
4. Swapping the cards will take time - which may not always be available, and will be fiddly
   
5. I'm about to get a new phone (in a few months) that will take decent images anyway (although not as good as my Canon) - and add GPS data to them.

So I'm not so sure it's worth it.
But because I like geeky things like that, and because I'm bored at work, I thought I'd write about it. I would like to try it anyway.

My Flickr Score

Just a silly little site that generates a Flickr "Score."
I obviously don't have that great a score (997), and the whole "score" idea isn't that interesting, but the site does also show a few cool bits of info on my flickr account that I did find interesting. Mainly the "interesting" photos... I want to know how they gauge that.
JadeMonkee's flickr score

Flickr is now Pro

This morning I wasn't able to some of the photos from my weekend up at the Hunter Valley because I exhausted the allocated bandwidth on my free Flickr account... so I took it upon myself to sign up as a Pro now rather than later. Yay, pro!
So now you can see all my photos in their full 7.0 MP glory! Which means you can print them! Or use them as desktop backgrounds (the ones I thought could make good desktop backgrounds are tagged as such). Or order them in an album or a as a calendar or as little schmiko cards or framed or whatever else*. Woohoo!
So now that I am a pro member, I have finished uploading my 24 Hours of Flickr set, and have included the link in the relevant post (as well as above).
I haven't yet submitted my photo to the 24 Hours of Flickr group though (I can only submit one), so if you see one that you think is good/awesome enough, leave a comment (preferably on flickr.com, but if you don't have a flickr login, here will be fine).
Yay! Flickr is FUN!

* not all services available outside of the US.