24
January
2008
Midlanders, get the chance to break a world record this summer for the world’s largest montage of photos. The arts council have teamed up with the BBC and flickr to ask people to submit any photos which depicts life in this part of the world.
www.inthebigpicture.co.uk
The website also offers the latest photos to be added and tips and tricks on how to improve your photos and is managed and maintained by a member of the Birmingham Flickr group. The result will be a massive whacking huge slab of canvas/paper with all the moderated photos placed on it, think of the million pixel project. The results will be shown around the region! The project is mostly powered by flickr, but people don’t need flickr account to take part, cameraphone pics and scans are being accepted.
Picture this with flickr on Ch4
This comes hot on the heals of Channel 4’s involvement with flickr on picture this and last years BBC 4 series where flickr users were able to add photos to a group which showed a random slideshow of shots on the BBCi interactive TV service.
If you have a camera, pick it up and use it, they need 90,000 images by June.
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22
March
2007
Well, when I do finally post some content it’s like weeks overdue!! Sorry folks, the reason why I’m away from my site so much recently is that I have a new job.
Anywho, 11th March saw the St Patricks Day Parade hit the streets of the Irish Quarter in Digbeth, Birmingham. It just so happened that was the day of a Birmingham flickrmeet, so no prizes for guessing where we ended up then. It was a really enjoyable day and you can see the snaps I took over in the photo section of this site. Well it saves having to load up flickr doesn’t it?
Check out the album by clicking the pic!
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20
February
2007
If by any chance you have been checking out my photo pages here, you’ll have seen some manic activity on those pages for sometime now. I appear to have fallen in love with a photo sharing community site called flickr, which has become a very social place to be.
First Black Country Flickrmeet
Sunday just gone was the first Black Country Flickrmeet, which I organised and drummed up membership for, I was truly astonished by the number of people who had been brought together, by the flickr site and our interactions within the various groups, to walk my route around Walsall taking random photos. The day was a successes and not only showed the ability of a social network to arrange such an event but the idea of democracy carries through as members are encouraged to add their own ideas for meetings and the whole thing kinda works in a nice way.
Here are just some of my own photos from the day, which you can view more of on this page, but you’ll find a lot more in the flickr group
Don’t forget to check out the actual black country group on flickr for more.
At first flickr appeared just to be a site for uploading and hosting photos, but because of the social aspects it became much more than that. I was soon joining groups left, right and center partly to gain an audience for comments on my own photos, which at the time were event based, but also to discover other works to be inspired by them and as a by product of that I gained contacts and a social network.
Social documentation through photography
The most surprising thing I got from flickr was the sense of community, feedback and belonging. Not only was it a place to be inspired, pick up new tricks and figure out why shutter priority matters so much, it’s just a great place to hang out in. The great city of Birmingham is home to a vibrant photographic community and some members of the Birmingham group, like Pete Ashton, spun off a meetup group where members could arrange to meet and have a wander around the city centre, taking photos in a group, giving a sense of belonging as well as being able to document the city as it changes. The meets are almost like social documenting.
Inspired by this I decided to help set up a similar thing for the surrounding area to the North West of Birmingham known as the Black Country, all of my higher and further education was carried out in the Black Country and I’m fond of the area as much as I am of Birmingham.
So yeah, much more than just photos.
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