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The view from my room last night.

Oakland Bridge at dawn.

Warf & Oakland Bridge.

Rocket monument on the Embarcadero.

Hyatt Regency fancy lights.

More Hyatt Regency Madness.

Cristophe Coenraets warms up.

The Haight circa 2012 CE

Technical Details:
Nikon D50

I used Picasa on my laptop to import the JPEG files to my hard drive.

Picasa automatically sync the photo to my Goggle+ account ‘in the cloud’.

I transfered the photos to be edited to my Nexus 7 via the Picasa Tools applet.

Edited these photos using the Adobe Photoshop Explorer applet.

This was composed on the WordPress applet.

I followed this painful path since I wanted to exercise three applets so I could take the Nexus 7 out for a spin around the Google ecosystem. Life would have been simple if the Nexus 7 could read the SD in my camera via the USB mount on the Camera. But alas this will not work with the Nexus 7. There are rumors that if I have an SD reader I can read the SD card directly via USB.

Day Two Pictures are here.

Social Photos: Transferring photos between Flickr, Facebook and Google+ 1 comment

For photographers, professionals and hobbyists seeking a larger audience, FLICKR has a lot to recommend it. According to Harold Davis:

If I conducted a survey of what people thought was the most important social media site for photographers, I bet most people would say Facebook, or maybe Twitter. But not so fast. Flickr is far and away the most important social media site for photographers—partly because it is a community aimed squarely at photographers…Using Flickr is an indispensable part of finding an audience; as photographer G. Dan Mitchell notes, “almost any photographer should have a presence there.” Landscape photographer Jeff Clow adds, “If you would have told me five years ago that I would have a large portfolio represented by Getty, I would have laughed out loud. But it has happened through the magic that I call Flickr magic.”

Simply put here are some reasons why you should use FLICKR if you want to improve the exposure of your photos and improve your photos

Simple Assignment of copyrights
- Facebook’s terms and conditions states that they can use your photos as they see fit if you don’t have a prior copyright set on each photo.
- Flickr makes copyright assignment simple (standard copyright: all rights reserved is the default) and allows several forms of the Creative Commons Licensing.
- Creative Commons licensing in turn exposes your photos to the photo sharing and distribution network of Create Commons.
Ease of blocking right-click downloads
- this is not the default but it is fairly straight forward to do. Of course, the cleaver can always copy any image that is transmitted to your browser.
Accurate, simple GEO coding
Exposure your photos to other photographers
- who may comment and critique your photos
Make your photos available to be reviewed by Getty Images for inclusion into their distribution network
Make your photos available to be search within the Creative Commons distribution network
Ease of uploading:
- Browser uploading and a Flickr local client for uploading
- Support for Flickr loading from within Adobe LightRoom and ACDSee (among others)

However, many folks like to use Facebook and Google+ for obvious social reasons and others may have commercial reasons. What to do. Loading photos separately to all three sites is time consuming and error prone. The problem of copy right registration remains on Facebook and Google+ unless you really want to let Mr. Zukerman make even more money of you.

Recently a new web based solution has appeared. The site: Social Photos allows users to drag and drop photos between the three sites: Facebook, Google+ and Flickr. I have been using the product for a few weeks and really like it. I always post FIRST to Flickr and setup my copyrights and group. Then I use Social Photos to drag selected photos to Google+ (I have to admit that I don’t use Facebook for political reasons so I have not tried that interface but I assume it works as well as the Flickr to Google+). Nice product, Highly recommended.