My Flickr account allows me to upload a maximum of 2 GB per calendar month.
Sometime back on this trip, I began to think I might accidentally exceed that limit before the trip was over and be stuck towards the end of this month without being able to upload pictures as things happen. So, at that point I started only uploading selected pictures instead of every picture that I didn’t immediately delete.
Here I sit on the 30th of a 31 day month and have only uploaded 1.1 GB, so I’m now uploading a couple hundred older pictures ranging from our mini-trips to Alishan through Chingjing Farm.
We’ve got Halloween stuff today, so I’m sure there will be some pictures of Michelle still to be posted this month, so I’ve left myself some room for more current photos. In November, I’ll continue uploading the older photos.
Incidentally, if you’ve been looking at the photos I’ve been posting on flickr in addition to the ones I post here at lonelocust.com you may not have noticed that flickr offers a few alternate ways to view photos.
The main organizational tools used by flickr are “tags.” Tags are arbitrary keywords assigned by me to my photos for organizational purposes. Ultimately I have to go back a do a lot of additional tagging, because the only tags I regularly use on this trip are TAIWAN (every photo taken here gets that one), TAIPEI (only those taken in Taipei or suburbs) and FAMILY (every picture that has a member of my family or myself in it). At the moment that’s not very useful to people unless they only want to look at pictures of my family or only look at pictures from Taipei.
The tag browser is on the right hand side on my main flickr page, or, you can jump right to a page of tagged photos by going to the address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gridman/tags/taipei/ to look at photos only tagged as taipei, as an example.
You can also browse photos by date. The default for flickr is by upload date, which I think is somewhat stupid, but you can select an option to view them by date taken (My digital cameras all embed the actual photo date in the file, making this automatic.) For a calendar view you can also get to that from the left of my main photo page or go directly there with this address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gridman/date-taken-calendar/.