BloggingAmigos

I’m a Computer Programmer by day and Photographer by night. I used to live, breath and eat photography in college and I’m still a active shooter. Over the years I’ve given several goes at having a photo blog and haven’t had a lot of success. One of the major reasons is because it always ended up being very time consuming to select, edit upload, post and link in the photo. Well I am here today to tell you there is an easier way, the way I know embrace.

The solution is to use Flickr. It’s that simple. Get yourself an account, they have free version and for pay version. I shelled out the extra cash for a pro account which allows me unlimited space. It’s very easy to become familiar with Flickr in a short amount of time. It’s simple to upload and organize your photos, something that is very cumbersome in a normal blog setting.

So now you have some photos posted to Flickr and you want to embed them in your blog. Login to Flickr and browse to the photo you want to blog. Above the photo will be a “Blog This” icon, click it to walk through the blogging process. The first time you try blogging a photo, it will walk you through attaching a blog to flickr. You’ll need to know your blog address (url), and user name & password. You can then give your post a title and some text to accompany the photo.

All said and done, I think this is the simpliest work flow for having a photoblog.

Benefits in short… Flickr will…

• Host your images and freeing up space on your web server.
• Manage your images with an amazing GUI.
• Allow you to resize them on the web.
• Provide you a good back up in-case of some disaster, heaven forbid.
• Make it easier for you to photo blog easier and faster.

If you are uploading many photos (more than 1) to Flickr, I would suggest a third party uploader. They are readily avaialble on the internet. I use JUploader for the Mac.

Lastly, Flickr has a great FAQ page if you run into any hick-ups.