#10 FLICKR

Experimented with Flickr- was pleasantly surprised.
Tried "St Peters Church" and Riga... obtained a range of views from SPC and of SPC.
High quality photos. The option to vary the size.Most impressive.
Tried "Blackbird"
Obtained many pages of hits...large range of choices of birds ,male and female, fledgelings,nests,groups of birds,...various poses, activities etc.
Found "Melbourne Architecture" group posting, with links to individual contributors,useful and informative. Good to see attempts to apply uniform rules to both captions and tags. Good to find "see" references.
Generally the value and artistic quality of items posted on Flickr ranges from first class to inconsequential and irrelevant; from pictures of historic buildings of the worlds towns ,large and small,to personal holiday snapshots.
The huge number of postings on all imaginable subjects must inevitably lead to some cluttering,despite rules re captions and tags.
No doubt more and more searching will be required to separate the wheat from the chaff, but the choice of quality pictures is enormous.
Umbopo is currently participating in a massive weeding project in our reference centre,to reflect changing user patterns ,and remove irrelevant and unused items.
He had no hesitation in weeding out half a dozen volumes of " illustration indexes ", from past decades ,to the stacks, with Flickr in mind.
Is Flickr ... is good !