Not only did I get a Flickr account this week, I shelled out some money for a Pro account.

I’ve always pre­ferred to keep my pic­tures local on my server, to be served up through Lightbox2, but hav­ing them on Flickr means that I can have a pho­to­stream, which peo­ple seem to be ask­ing for lately. I’ll also have an online backup of my full-sized prints with access to them any­where in the world (as long as I have inter­net access), and get to share pic­tures of parties/events with the appro­pri­ately involved friends (hint hint, go sign up for an account so I can give you access).

I’m slowly going through my entire col­lec­tion, mak­ing full-scale copies of the impor­tant pho­tos, upload­ing, describ­ing, then tag­ging them. It’s tak­ing a while, because I nor­mally save for web-size only.

Hopefully, peo­ple will give a hand in iden­ti­fy­ing these flow­ers. I have about eight of them iden­ti­fied so far, but until they’re all cor­rectly labelled, I’ll have to live with names like IMG_1033.jpg, thus leav­ing me feel­ing very incom­plete (I know, I know, I’m a bad Taoist — prob­a­bly a part of my mild OCD).

I’ve only been a mem­ber for two days, and my most pop­u­lar photo? Wet doggy by far at 115 views and one favourite already. Why? Probably because of the “thong” tag (which is dis­played much more promi­nently in larger sizes).

Along with Twitter, the signs get­ting more obvi­ous that I’m slowly being pulled into Web 2.0.