Since about a year ago I migrated my snapshots gallery from Gallery to Flickr. Since then I’ve used Flickr for pretty much all my image sharing/hosting needs, including both my snapshots and my photography works. I kept my photography gallery coz it is relatively small, so it hasn’t hit the Gallery scalability bottleneck, and by hosting it myself I get web statistics like who link to my images or where my visitors come from.

I am considering doing more photography professionally, the first steps will be to overhaul my photography website. Instead of just having a gallery/portfolio, the new site is going to have a more “professional” look with portfolio, client list, contact info, an “about” page, and possibly my rates. I’m not sure if I should make up a business name or just continue to use Andrew Ng Images or AYN Images. For the portfolio, I am thinking about using my images off Flickr. I can come up with custom tags for each categories, this way I only have to upload to Flickr with the specific tag(s) and my photography website will show the new images automatically. I can already embed slideshows into webpage, but I will see what other tools are out there. I searched briefly and found a couple tools to generate Flash sites with Flickr images. There is also an API to Flickr, and I’ve coded with PHPFlickr a little bit when I had to migrate all 4000+ images from Gallery to Flickr, so I could do something custom with their API as well.

Anyway, I need to get this site up and running asap, and I’m gonna try some new ways to get some new clients, yes, this includes possibly posting on Craigslist. (or is that not a good idea?)

Feel free to chime in if you have any cool ideas on what I should include or how I should do the new site.

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Flickr introduced a new feature: Collections. It is sorta a math/programming term, but basically you now can organize your Sets into Collections. Collections can either contain other Collections OR Sets, not a mix of both, this I think is kindda strange.

To clarify the concept of Flickr Collections, basically a Set in Flickr is a set of your images, and a single image can be in multiple sets. In most other photo hosting sites or site software, they usually have the concept of albums instead, but in most cases a given image can only be in one album unless you manually add it to more than one. Personally, I like the concept of Sets more. But it becomes anonying when you have too many sets, so the concept of albums and sub-albums becomes desirable. Naturally, they came up with Collections, which are more general than sets, that Collections can contain other Collections or Sets (but not both!). So this gives you something similar to albums and sub-albums but it is more general, because a collection can obviously be in multiple collections. Well, I think this might be confusing to some still, but most of my readers have some kindda math, engineering, or computer science background.

More on Sets and Collections at Wikipedia.

They also allow you to customize your Flickr page layout, you can choose to display sets or collections, or just images. And you can also choose to display the images in medium or small sizes.

What are collections, you ask? A collection is a container into which you can place either sets or other collections, allowing you to create a hierarchy as deep as 5 collections. You can place as many of your sets into a collection as you like, and a set can be in as many different collections as you like.

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