Rambling about photos, photoblogs, flickr, and more.
Do you ever feel like you are on internet overload? Like you want to look at 3 sites at ONCE? Like you can’t stop surfing flickr.com yet you are dying to go thru your own pictures so you can upload them? But at the same time you want to go out and take photos? It’s like “AAAAAAAaaaaaaackkkkkkkkk!”. Look at my pictures! No! I want to go look at pictures! No! I want to go out and take pictures! It’s like internet ADD. But really it’s internet addiction.
Photojunkie (link || another link) has been on my blogroll since this blog was in it’s past incarnation. I LOVE his nickname. I can’t think of a better name than photojunkie. I’m a photojunkie for sure. I can lose an entire day AND night to flickr and photoblogs and moblogs and camera sites and my own photos. I’ve lost many hours in Photojunkie’s photoblog! 
Also, he is in Toronto, where I REALLY want to live, and where M is from. It’s my dream to live in Toronto and find other photo buddies to go photo-ing with. It’s such a photogenic city and area. I thought “pixeladdict” would be a good nickname for me, but that dot-com is taken (I’ve been wanting to start a nice photoblog for a long time).
I’ve been wanting to do a nice photoblog for a long time, but the truth is I have so many blogs (this blog, the family blog [a toned down version of this blog], a fitness blog, my Backyard Blog, a pretty much defunct religous exploration [or lack thereof] blog, a travel blog for when I travel, a defunct cat blog, a dog blog… ack!) and a fotki premium account and a flickr pro account… that how in the hell can I start and faithfully maintain a photoblog? I don’t see how I can, especially when I actually forget to post in some of my other blogs.
Flickr allows you to email a photo (like from your camera phone) straight to your blog. The photo then shows up on the blog and in your flickr account. But you can only have one active email address for that at a time. So when I’m out and about, away from the computer, I have to have chosen beforehand which blog I’d like to be able to email photos to from my camera phone. They don’t seem to have plans to change this either. So… my main flickr account which is a “pro” account, is associated with The Pug’s blog, for no reason except that’s just how things started out for me.
But to email photos to this blog, I have a different flickr account which is not pro, user “miamyselfandi”. I feel bad sorta, like I don’t want to take advantage of flickr, but if they’d offer the feature, I’d close the free account. It’s not that I want to be double-dipping, but there are literally days where I want to send a Pug-Meetup pic to the pug’s blog and an hour later send a funny pic of something else to this, my main blog. I wish flickr would allow us to have more than one “email2blog” email address at one time. Fotki.com allows you to have a different email address for every album, so it’s obviously not that hard. The addresses are computer-generated on the fly and can be changed at any time. It’s really cool. In reality though, I don’t email many photos to this blog, so I don’t think I’m really taking advantage of flickr.
Anyway, the best thing I can do right now is get OFF THE COMPUTER and go get lunch, and bring my camera with me. Really. It IS addicting.