To My Dear Friend, The Photoshphere

Greg — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:35:36 +0000

© Greg Wasserstrom

I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. It’s not because I don’t care; in fact, I think about you more than once every single day. You’re much busier now than last year, and with so much going on I’m worried that you’re going to forget about me. So here’s a tidbit: it’s the Library of Congress Flickr stream, though I can’t take credit for discovering it. Bryan Schutmaat left it for me in a commen t this morning. Sometimes he sends me things to put up on account of he doesn’t have a blog. Anyway, the stream it’s full of fantastic photographs including mind-blowing color images from the home front during World War II. So take a look at that. Bryan said looking at them was the best part of his day. That rang true for me too. And I had a pretty good day.

In other news, I’ll be posting to Gawker this coming Saturday and Sunday. Come by and take a look if you have a minute.

This is a post from Greg Wasserstrom’s Blog About Photography.

To My Dear Friend, The Photoshphere

Only the Good Shit: The Needles in the Flickr Haystack

Greg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:45:19 +0000

Sometime after midnight Minnesota time, Alec asked the question, “Where is the good stuff on flickr?” It is now 8:45am, and he has received 38 answers to his query, 39 if you count this one right here.

Flickr is full of great stuff, it’s just a matter of finding it. As a veteran Flickr user, I’ve found that the contacts and favorites of somebody decent are usually good places to start. It’s true that you need to have at least one as a jumping off point, but if you’ve gotten yourself this far, well then you’re pretty close.

In any event, I’ve come across some very talented people this way. All these kids below you may have heard of or seen before. Flickr introduced me to their work. There are many others.

Andrew Laumann

Mary Amor

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Pete Voelker

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Jessica Williams

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Bea Fremderman

Update: Joerg has weighed in on the Great Flickr Debate of 2007.

This is a post from Greg Wasserstrom’s Blog About Photography.

Only the Good Shit: The Needles in the Flickr Haystack

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To My Dear Friend, The Photoshphere

Only the Good Shit: The Needles in the Flickr Haystack