DavePress

Having an iPhone has really liberated me in term of the way that I use Flickr. This would be true of any phone with decent internet connectivity, and indeed there are plenty of handsets out there with better camera functionality than the iPhone. But the ability to easily take a picture and upload it to Flickr via email in a matter of seconds is fantastic - like this, which I took in Chipping Norton yesterday:

This has led me to have a bit of a wonder about Flickr and where the value of it lies. One thing Flickr does brilliantly is to create a community of photographers, from amateurs through to seasoned professionals, who discuss one another’s photos and chat about lenses, resolutions and whatnot.

But Flickr has another community too - people out on the streets with cameraphones, who don’t really care about the angles of the shots they are taking, wh just want to capture the moment and share it online. Such users can easily find themselves at the forefront of important events, thrust into the role of citizen journalist.

These two communities exist side-by-side rather well, despite the fact that they are using the same service for quite different purposes. Which is more important to Flickr, I wonder - and which to society?

Taken as I sped by on my way to Newcastle. I wasn’t driving, honest, officer.

I remember being mesmerised by this on my first (and up ’til now, only) trip to the North East. It’s lost none of its magic for me.

The church in the village we moved to last month.

Spotted this outside the Novotel in Milton Keynes this morning.

How odd!

Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week - it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took - you can find them all here.

I’m not much of a photographer and just use a simple point-and-click Sony, but when the scenery is as good as this, it’s hard to go wrong!

Had a lovely day yesterday in the glorious sunshine. We visited the Suffolk coast, at Dunwich Heath and Southwold, and had a marvelous time. Here’s some photographic evidence. There’s more, should you want it, on my Flickrstream.

Swinging

Originally uploaded by DavePress

Ben didn’t want to go on the big slide thing at Fermyn Woods today, so I felt the need to uphold the Briggs family honour. I think I did so well.