How to use Flickr images in a blog, how to find and use HTML scripts to place Flickr photos or videos in your blog

So you want to know how to find and use HTML scripts to place Flickr images in your blog?

First you create a Flickr account, either the free or paid account.

Then either email your image to your Flickr account, or upload your image to your account any of 10 ways. For this article I am assuming you already have posted one or many images or photos you want to use on your blog to your Flickr account.

Then, here's the magic part! Flickr provides the script to post your image to any website including your own! Since Flickr is worldwide and uses Flash to display the image, it should display much faster than if it is on a local server in Paro, or Thailand or wherever even in the US, because they use Akamai servers which are all over the world.

Where is the script? When you are at your Flickr site looking at the image you wish to use click on the item "ALL SIZES" at the top of the image.

From there choose the size you want to use, such as "MEDIUM". From the MEDIUM scroll down and you will see the text in pink :

To link to this photo on other websites you can either:

1. Copy and paste this HTML into your webpage:
(And the HTML script is right there within the little box.) Copy the script and embed it into any HTML, and when connected to the Web the image will appear!
For example:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3444186962/" title="Cat - Cute peed on bed by Steve D, on Flickr" > <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3444186962_5651ea1920.jpg" width="500" height="300" alt="Cat - Cute peed on bed" /> </a>

A note - the other choice:
2. Grab the photo's URL:
"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3444186962_5651ea1920.jpg"
Is an "absolute reference" to a specific location on Flickrs servers - I have not found to be as reliable as the other method for some reasons.

Now for the next to last part of this lesson - you can edit the HTML because it is just TEXT! You can edit it so that it doesn't hurl the end users browser back to Flickr, but to any place you choose, or is not a hot link at all. For example:

<a href="http://www.papayayoga.com/" title="Cat - Cute peed on bed by Steve D on Papayayoga's Website" > <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3444186962_5651ea1920.jpg" width="500" height="300" alt="Cat - Cute peed on bed" /> </a>

This script can be posted directly into your blog and it should display a cartoon by Steve D, and link to the Papayayoga Website...

The last part of this lesson is that you should be able to pick up the script for any image from just as I described, because all of the images on my Flickr site (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/) are listed as Creative Commons, and thus the script to embed images or video for all of them is public.

The next lesson is How to Improve Search results also called SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Let me know if you need any help with this because when one knows something one tends to forget to point out little details that the other person may not be equipted to figure out on their own...
Cheers!

By the way to display the code in this blog post I used the Code and Pre tags in HTML, and Note that you must URL encode "<" to the tag equalvant & l t ; and ">" to & g t ; (without the spaces). See how the font changed too? This indicates it is inside the code and pre tags. (How it appears depends on the CSS in use.)

Here's the result --

Photo Fine Art - 8 Stands Alone, Looking the Other Way

How I created this image - I found stones laying around on the ground at the University of Washington during one of those great impromptu outdoor lunches this early spring where all the cherry trees begin to blossom down the main walkway between the Art and Music Schools.

I stacked the broken stone in the U of the horseshoe-shaped courtyard on the east side of the UW Art School Building.

Later I combined a photo of the stacked stone with a crane and streetlight in front of the Microsoft construction shot out of the top of my car (while working at Microsoft recently on a great project.)

Using Photoshop I merged the two images and gave the background a light and dark effect.

When using Photoshop to create fine art I feel much like someone who becomes one with art -- like someone who drives a racecar and feels to be one with the car.

Best viewed larger so one can see the itaglio print type texture - click on the image to go to Flickr.

What Annie Leibovitz learned from John Lennon

Leibovitz:
"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. You're not there in the room talking to someone about something else while you're really trying to take their picture. You know, talking about the weather or the Knicks game because you're trying to pretend you're not really taking pictures. I always think that's funny. We're not really taking pictures here! This will make you relax! Lennon was very straightforward and helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well."
http://www.powells.com/authors/leibovitz.html
Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks
Dave Weich, http://www.Powells.com

tender shots of solders coming back from Iraq

They are such tender photographs of service folks coming back from Iraq... photographer Suzanne Opton's shots:

http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.aspx?aID=d4d92aa2-69ff-4d92-bc73-8be784345b4a

The one of Claxton is perhaps the most telling. See for yourself.