I know that EE has a great photo gallery module to integrate a gallery into the weblog, so no offense! But my webspace doesn’t allow to store my original (high quality, and therefor large sized) all of my pics on the webserver. Does anyone has experience (positive or negative) with the Flickr (flickr.com) photo gallery? Especially a pro account (as I’ve tested the free account). I’ve added 18 photo’s so I’m out of bandwidth for this month already Is it worth the 25 bucks? Or should I just add some webspace? It seems flickr offers unlimited (read: “Unlimited” storage space)...

Any thoughts are welcome

Michel (NL) - 11 July 2005 11:37 AM

I know that EE has a great photo gallery module to integrate a gallery into the weblog, so no offense! But my webspace doesn’t allow to store my original (high quality, and therefor large sized) all of my pics on the webserver. Does anyone has experience (positive or negative) with the Flickr (flickr.com) photo gallery? Especially a pro account (as I’ve tested the free account). I’ve added 18 photo’s so I’m out of bandwidth for this month already Is it worth the 25 bucks? Or should I just add some webspace? It seems flickr offers unlimited (read: “Unlimited” storage space)...

Any thoughts are welcome

Oh, yeah.. it’s worth it.

SheCodes Flickr Account

I must say.. you have a VERY nice set of photos! (Especially the Purty_eyes picture very cute)

Michel (NL) - 11 July 2005 12:21 PM

I must say.. you have a VERY nice set of photos! (Especially the Purty_eyes picture very cute)

Thanks! That’s my 10 month old granddaughter Gracie. Just changed my avatar to post her picture.

my webspace doesn’t allow to store my original (high quality, and therefor large sized) all of my pics on the webserver

Just kind of curious why one stores those online rather than just locally?

Good questions.. asking me the same. However, one of the reasons that justify the flickr space is that i’m running low on diskspace. But I could buy a new disk.. or burn them all on dvd or something. I’m a sucker for ‘online services’ though…

But I could buy a new disk

They are relatively cheap.

I’m a sucker for ‘online services’ though

I’m the exact opposite, I prefer to have it all in my grubby little hands :-)

PXLated - 11 July 2005 01:06 PM

my webspace doesn’t allow to store my original (high quality, and therefor large sized) all of my pics on the webserver

Just kind of curious why one stores those online rather than just locally?

Backups

I have accounts on pbase and smugmug as well.

This is just last year’s pictures:

Total Files Listed:
    12427 File(s) 17,066,387,028 bytes

12427 File(s) 17,066,387,028 bytes

You’re lucky we live in the age of digital cameras…the film and processing would have killed ya a few years ago

If flickr is $25 a month you can easily get a lot more webspace for that much money… If you are gonna use it as backup for your originals is it wise to use some entity online? are they gonna compensate you in anyway if you need to get to your files and they’re gone? External HDs are getting cheaper and DVD technology is getting better and better in the life stacks too.

Currently i have a copy of my photo’s on my laptop, an external drive and my work PC.  I’ll probably start burning to DVD at some point. Problem with archiving is the longer you leave it the more you have to do to get back on track. hell I’m still sorting out photos from weeks ago and i just took ~700 at the British Grand Prix.

DavidJaymz - 12 July 2005 06:54 AM

If flickr is $25 a month you can easily get a lot more webspace for that much money… If you are gonna use it as backup for your originals is it wise to use some entity online? are they gonna compensate you in anyway if you need to get to your files and they’re gone? External HDs are getting cheaper and DVD technology is getting better and better in the life stacks too.

Currently i have a copy of my photo’s on my laptop, an external drive and my work PC.  I’ll probably start burning to DVD at some point. Problem with archiving is the longer you leave it the more you have to do to get back on track. hell I’m still sorting out photos from weeks ago and i just took ~700 at the British Grand Prix.

Nooo That’s true, but it’s 25 bucks a year actually!

DavidJaymz - 12 July 2005 06:54 AM

If flickr is $25 a month you can easily get a lot more webspace for that much money… If you are gonna use it as backup for your originals is it wise to use some entity online? are they gonna compensate you in anyway if you need to get to your files and they’re gone? External HDs are getting cheaper and DVD technology is getting better and better in the life stacks too.

Currently i have a copy of my photo’s on my laptop, an external drive and my work PC.  I’ll probably start burning to DVD at some point. Problem with archiving is the longer you leave it the more you have to do to get back on track. hell I’m still sorting out photos from weeks ago and i just took ~700 at the British Grand Prix.

Flickr isn’t $25 a month. It’s $24.95 a year.

I just started burning to CD in anticipation of reformatting my laptop HD. I have copies on an external harddrive too.

I don’t store full sized images on the ‘Net - but I do store resized graphics I can use for web based stuff.

Today I’m backing up my 2005 images. I store images based on the date since the tool I use downloads them that way.

I’m glad flicker isn’t $25 a month… but still i much prefer having my photo’s on my websites.

A good file naming system is a must! yyyy-mm-dd-location0001.cr2 is mine. means i can easily find the photo i’m looking for. of course the photo’s are split into folders in the same format too…

there are currentley some API tools for Flickr created in PHP and Javascript
this is what i have put togeather using EE and these tools http://david.rencher.us/index/flickr/photos/lumis/
the code for this can be downloaded here http://webdev.yuan.cc/lfvr/ but yeah a gallery interface to the API would be nice i dont really like the AJAX approach

It would be great if the Gallery Function in EE didn’t store the original, that would save a lot of space. But maybe in one of the future releases it will be an option.
I think that’s one of the biggest min-points on the EE gallery. The other things are SUPER!!

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but ... its about Flickr, so I can’t resist.

Before I found Flickr, I was strongly opposed to the use of web based image hosting services. I’d peruse my favorite forums, and whenever someone would post a link to their photos on the web, I would just groan and move on without clicking on the link. These were usually commercial interfaces with advertisements, poor usability, low resolution, pop-ups, must-be-a-member-to-see-pictures, yada yada yada ... I throw up my arms in disgust just thinking about it!

Enter Flickr - inexpensive, original high resolution photo archiving, no-BS ad-free interface, innovative tagging system, local bulk upload clients, open-ended, feeds, and community and I’m sure there are numerous other strengths I haven’t mentioned. I love it - and I’m a web developer who prefers the service over any custom photo gallery I could create. I think the Flickr community is what makes the service stand out the most.

I’ll chime in and say that Flickr is an secure, off-site, space-unlimited warehouse for your photos. Granted they have a 2Gb montly upload limit, but I haven’t felt too restricted by that. I also like that I can choose what parts of my account are private, or, ‘just for storage purposes, not sharing.’

Yep… Flickr is the way to go.  You can directly link all your photo’s so basically you can create a photo gallery on your site without anyone even knowing it is Flickr.

Yea, right until it goes down and the rest of your site is up and so your gallery just looks flakey.  o.O