November 12th, 2007 : Flickr Pro Account
Well I just uploaded a whole bunch of Photos to Flickr today and ran into the “You have more than 200 Photos” issue. I didn’t realize this, but if you have more then 200 photos on Flickr, you can only see the latest 200 of them. Which, for me, defeats the purpose of putting photos online, especially if I am going to be linking to them from other websites. This means that my photo could disappear from a website because it is no longer visible on Flickr.
So I bit the bullet and purchased a Flickr Pro account. I’m already paying Yahoo to access my email via POP3 access, I figure what’s another $25 a year if I can get some more attention as a photographer.
Really, to me, Flickr is all about exposure. I have 18000+ photos sitting on my computer that I don’t even have time to look at. Some of them are really good photos. A few thousand are probably waiting to be deleted, if I ever found time to sit down and sort them. But when I find good ones, I want to be able to share them with other people. If I make greeting cards out of them, I want to have people know that they are out there and available for purchase. My website readership is admittedly low, so gaining all the attention I can will require an outside source of traffic.
Anyway, now that I am actually paying for service I’ll probably be using it a bunch more, so be ready for more photography posts on my part.