They call him Flickr

They call him Flickr, Flickr, faster than lightning

No one you see, is smarter than he

And we know Flickr, lives in a world full of wonder

Flying there, right there, right in front of me

Now I am not the most technologically adept person and I prefer to be shown how to use something rather than have to read the instructions. (OK I’m lazy) but I was surprised how easy it was to get a grasp of Flickr. And it is a wonderful program.
I must however admit to a bit of a drama as far as copying my photos onto Flickr went and it was due to my stubbornness (my mother would have called it pig-headedness) that it was such a drama.
My friend David had taken some wonderful photos of a rainbow on our way back from a trip to the country and I was determined that these were the photos I was going to use in Flickr and then also add them to my blog.
David burnt the 60 odd photos onto a cd - so far so good - and I brought them to work in anticipation of a five minute job. Uh uh. I couldn’t manage to get just four of these photos onto Flickr and I didn’t want to load all 64 photos onto the computer. To cut a long story short nothing worked. I then decided to do it from home only to find my computer completely outdated for these files. Once again I took the cd to work and drama after drama I abandoned my attempts. Being a bit more determined the next day I returned armed with cd and decided on a different tact. Wonderful this time I was able to upload the required files into a folder on the computer. I then tried to transfer these photos into Flickr only to finally find that they were TOO BIG. Ah that must have been the original problem. They were all over 5 MB and to use files over 5 MB you need to upgrade your membership with Flickr and pay for the privilege. So it was back to David’s computer to make the files smaller which I then emailed to myself and easy peasy, job done.
Now yes I could have used other photos but I did learn a lot. I’m not sure if I really needed to learn what I did but learn I did.