UCU Strikes

My photos from last week's UCU strike action are available as a set and as a slideshow:

Flickr

Perceptive quote from the NY Times:

"No one questions Flickr’s appeal to photographers who post, admire and comment on a wealth of artistic images, many of which are magazine quality. Where Flickr is faltering is with people who want to store and share more mundane snapshots."

I guess Facebook is where people are increasingly turning for casual photo sharing.

United For Education

My photos from today's United For Education day of action are now on Flickr, as a set and as a slideshow:

Leeds UCU Rally

Pictures from last week's Leeds UCU Rally:

Flickr fun

I'm a Flickr devotee, and was interested to discover their App Garden - a place where home-grown applications that use the Flickr API can be promoted.

One that particularly caught my eye is Command-Line Flickr - a retro, textual interface that allows you to browse photostreams and even render individual pictures as ASCII art! Strange but rather cool.

Here's the photo from yesterday's post, rendered in ASCII:

Let It Snow...

We are deeply in the grip of winter at the moment, with plenty of snow on the ground, schools closed, etc. I was at home with the kids today and took my camera outside for the first time in a few weeks, to grab a few shots of interestingly-shaped accumulations of snow. Here, it looks like the nesting box in our back garden has acquired a quiff!