Permanent Tourist

by Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about photo sharing

  • Self portrait with Jo in a hotel in Reims, France, 2006

    The end of Flickr

    After many years sharing photos on Flickr, I’ve decided to migrate them all here and close up shop on the photo sharing service.

  • Ten years at Flickr

    A brief history of ten years using the online photo-sharing service Flickr.

  • Make sure you use the correct license when you publish your photos online

    If you have a social media account or an account at one of the photo sharing websites, you need to make sure that your photos are published using the appropriate license. Flickr allows you to offer your photos under a specific Creative Commons license which allows those downloading the photos to pass them on or use…

  • Instagram Direct

    Instagram is an “app” for smartphones, which allows you to snap a photo, apply a filter effect (if you like) and upload it to the Instagram service. From there, you can share the photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and a bazillion other social media services. Let’s face it: there are only a few reasons for…

  • Photo sharing

    The latest version of the mobile phone app from Flickr, released yesterday, helps me to continue to prune my photo sharing accounts elsewhere.

  • Sharing photos online

    Just news on a change of how I upload and share photographs online. I have decided that as a part of the re-design of my website for 2009, I am no longer going to place copyright notices on my photos, nor am I going to place so much emphasis on selling pictures online. If people…