Adding Flickr photos

Between 2005 and 2013, all of my new photos lived at Flickr, once a rapidly growing photo sharing community. The photos were all nicely organised into albums, tagged, and usually had locations associated with them as well.

When Instagram came along, I largely switched over to it, and stopped posting new photos on Flickr. Sadly Instagram didn’t have most of those features, but it’s where the crowd was, and it’s where I continue to post photos to this day.

I imported all those Instagram photos last year, and cross-post any new photos from Instagram to this site soon afterwards.

I’d always intended to do the same with the older photos from Flickr. Well, as of today, they’re available here in the photography section. I’m slowly working through them all to organise everything a bit better, but you can already browse all the photos, or explore by place, album or tag.

Incorporating Instagram photos

Instagram has been home to my photos for over a decade now, as they make it easy to share photos with friends. While Instagram will continue to be the place I share photos, I plan to add those new photos here as well.

I’m starting to work through my old photos to import them into the site. The first batch of 1,600+ photos from Instagram (2013 to now) is available in the photography section, with some ongoing work to tag them for easier exploration, and to improve navigation and loading speeds.

There were some challenges with getting the photos from the Instagram archive into the site as it doesn’t include some data that would useful - like a link to the original Instagram post - but I found various workarounds. I may share some details on that in a later post.

Hello Hugo

This site has been online in one form or another since about 1995, but since 2014 I haven’t given it much attention.

In 2022 I decided it was time for a bit of a clean start, and the old Drupal site got taken down and replaced by a simple single page site. Now in 2024 I think it’s perhaps time to try and breathe a bit of life back into the site.

With the help of Hugo, the excellent static site generator, I’ve given the site an update to make it simple to manage content. Wish me luck.