Category Archives: photography
Using IrfanView for image slideshows
Andy Mabbett explains how to make images into slideshows, with optional audio, using “IrfanView”, a Windows-based software package that is free for non-commercial use. Continue reading
Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please
Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers.
Open-licensing your images. What it means and how to do it.
Andy Mabbett gives an introduction to the concept of open-licensing images, and explains how you can contribute to the community by open-licensing yours.
Portrait with Brompton Bike
Portraits of Andy Mabbett, part of the Birmingham Cyclists project by Pete, aka Dividenthal.
Sharing images openly is better than uploading to single sites
Ian Emes’ ‘French Windows’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’ at Ikon
Ian Emes’ video for Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’, ‘French Windows’, is part of an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, until September 2010
Taxonomic machine tags
0000-0001-5882-6823Images on Flickr (and other sites?) can be tagged with “machine tags“. For living things, these can convey taxonomic information. For example: taxonomy:binomial=Larus melanocephalus taxonomy:genus=Larus Flickr collapses these to: “larusmelanocephalus” and “larus“, but note that subtracting one from the other … Continue reading
