Flickr Notes

One of the worst features of Flickr, I find, is the ability for users to add "notes" to photographs. I don't mean the comments (though God only knows how annoying those 'I'm an admin for blah blah blah and we'd like you to add this to blah blah blah' comments are), but the ability to "tag" areas of an image. Take this for example:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3112472619/

This is a perfectly good photo of US troops sorting an enormous number of parcels over Christmas during WW2. However, I think it has been completely ruined by a huge number of inane, unfunny notes plastered all over it. Most of them are lame attempts at humour or shit captions, and woefully out of place.

Notes can be disabled, and I do wish they would do so with all photographs in the Commons. I find it incredibly annoying that the second my mouse hovers over some of these most popular of photographs, up pop a hundred crappy comments. Flickr, take note!

Flickr Gallery - First World War in the Air

Concluding my little theme of late, I have created a Flickr Gallery of some of the most interesting WW1 aviation photos I have found on the site.

You can view it at http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoplod/galleries/72157625687189714/

Bizarre Visitors

Yesterday, I uploaded around 136 images from last weekend's Chertsey Town vs Dorking football match. As is often the case, I received a spike in the number of visitors to my photo stream, but I also received dozens of "Favourite" notifications. Had I been discovered by some photo agency, earmarking my images for future attention?

No. Bizarrely, I'd been invaded by a Sock Fetishist. I had a look at his collection of "favourites" on Flickr - expecting to find sports & football images - but instead found numerous pictures of men...in socks.

Weird.