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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Using Flickr

Setting up the Flickr account was simple.  I didn't like having to give out my URL and password in order to link Flickr to my blog, so I'm going to try to use the Blogger applications first.

Choosing my buddy icon for Flickr took quite a bit a time...not because the process was difficult, but because I got bogged down reminiscing over scads of photos on my computer.

I think the idea of tagging makes complete sense.  By linking each picture with certain key words or comments, I can pull them all up very easily for future reference.  I sort of have my email accounts at work set up that way, so the notion transposes easily within my mind.

I was a bit leary of putting my pictures on display for anybody and everybody.  I think it's because I don't feel like I have control over them once they are out there in the public web.  I guess I have to keep telling myself to "think globally."

Here's a link to my photo stream on Flickr.  The photos that I have posted are from my August, 2009 trip to Bermuda.  We've been four times and it just keeps getting better...more expensive, too.       




My husband and I went snorkeling at one of the top beaches on the island, Smith's Bay.  I found this underwater hole in the rock formations and submerged so that Rodger could get a photo of me peeping through.  It took us 5 or 6 attempts because I kept floating back up.  I finally just grabbed onto the rock and held myself in place, just long enough for him to snap the shot.



                    

The 2-3" long Silversides (a minnow-like bait fish) made a huge, swirling tornado around me.  It was so thick that I couldn't see the bottom or straight ahead.  It was one of my favorite adventures despite the fact that it was unnerving and disorienting, at the time.   I had to wait until they cleared away, before proceeding out to the reef.  The whole time I was in there, I kept thinking, "Man, I hope nothing decides to eat them for lunch; because he'll get more than he bargained for, when he finds me in the middle."

Please go check out my other photos that offer just a hint of the glorious colors from God's own pallet, on the beautiful island of Bermuda!

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