blogging

After starting the new job, I did what I typically do to get my feet under me - immersion. Like every job I've had since the 90s, there's a level of situational awareness that is necessary to get anything accomplished. That takes time and focus, but even with that there are details that slide by. The world isn't perfect and I'm most certainly not perfect. As with most things, though, perfection isn't the issue.

People like pictures. When I started blogging over a decade ago, I didn't have pictures or images to use and I didn't want to break any copyright laws (a lot of bloggers, then and now, didn't care). Because of that, I bought a camera and started shooting pictures of just about everything everywhere I went in an age when cameras on phones weren't evolved out of the technological ooze just yet. Now, armed with a Flickr Pro account, I presently have 16,585 images at my disposal.

And it still isn't enough. And, frankly, there are sometimes better images out there than my own (hey, I'm getting better!). That's why images made available for use either through Creative Commons licensing or public domain are so worthwhile and why I've used the Creative Commons licensing - I give to the pool, I use from the pool with no worry - like the image to the right. I'm not female or blonde, but the 'Why?' seemed quite worthwhile for this aspect of the post. And through Flickr, the link code allows the image to be used while also allowing the user to see the original image. But how do you find those images on Flickr?