Mon 7 Jan 2008
A few months ago, Jonathan Landsman posted a nice tribute and request for donations to thank me for all of my Photo IDs and other Williams photos. Jonathan’s idea was to give me a “pro” account at flickr so that I could upload all of my pictures and have more flexibility in organizing and storing them, and possibly also allow me to get other photography equipment. Thanks to readers’ generous gifts, I now have a pro account and enough money to renew this account in the future (it is $25 a year).
I have been working on uploading all of my Williams photos to flickr. When I upload them, I can give them tags, which describe what is in them. Here are some that might interest you (you may have seen some of the photos before if you are a frequent EphBlog reader):
EphBlog, Williams, Track, Student Center, Williams-Mystic, Photography winter study class. Here is a list of all my tags.
I am working on uploading all of my Williams pictures. Some of the categories are woefully incomplete right now, especially the running ones — I have hundreds of running pictures, of which only a tiny fraction are on flickr. I think I have put up all of my EphBlog pictures and scenic pictures of Williamstown, which you can access from the links above.
What to do with the rest of the money? I was planning to pool it with some of my own in order to buy myself a camera — the camera I have been using belonged to my parents and I knew I was going to have to give it back to them this vacation. But then for Christmas, they gave me a wicked awesome camera all my own. So now I don’t need a camera. And I received 3 GB of memory cards, so that should be enough. Thus, I am planning to use the rest of the money to buy:
1. A tripod. As in this picture of the Congo church, readers pitied me for lying on the ground to take nighttime pictures, and suggested EphBlog could provide me with a tripod. This may occur.
2. More years of being a pro on flickr. If I fail to renew my pro account, I can only see my most recent 200 pictures. This would be sad. I will probably pay flickr $25 a year from now on, and it makes sense for this money to come from EphBlog for a few years after I graduate, as long as I keep posting pictures of Williams and occasionally link from EphBlog to those pictures.
I’ll let you know when I have a full set of photos up, and when I spend more of the money. Thanks again, everyone.
January 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
& thank you for taking the photographs and sharing them with us.
Enjoy the camera and tripod and using flickr (which is, of course, nice for us too since it lets you share with us). Through flickr, Shutterfly, or one of the other services, you can make bound printed albums. If you have the time to select the pictures, label them, and put them in the order you want, that might be a great way of using up a bit more of your EphBlog money. If your subject is, say, a team or your Mystic adventures, other people from your group can preview, order, and buy copies of the album through the service if they want. It’s pretty time-consuming to get everything just right, though.
Anyway, again thank you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I just recently found your Photo IDs and really enjoyed getting to see pictures of the campus and trying to see how many I knew off the top of my head. It was a welcome distraction from trying to write my thesis. Thanks!
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
You’re welcome, and thank you both for your kind words.