A quick video of photos I’ve uploaded to flickr this summer. Made with this script.
Tag: flickr
Likes Creative Commons licenses are irrevocable by .
Thankfully, Flickr, the website from which I took the image, has a handy feature that allows you to see the license history of an image
I didn’t know about the flickr license history. Neat!
Flickr Months
A while ago I thought it might be interesting to be able to search Flickr and organise the results by the month that the photos were taken. Over the last couple of days I’ve made the system a little better. The page searches my Flickr photos and displays them in the months they were taken.
I’ve changed the default search to butterfly as I am taking quite a lot of photos of them at the moment. It is potentially useful to be able to see what to expect at different times of the year. The page takes a parameter of t to display a different search:
https://johnjohnston.info/flickrcal/?t=bird
The main change I made was to add some caching, getting the results of a Flickr search can be slow, so this speeds up repeated searches. I also made the sorting a bit more logical. The display of thumbnails is basic and they just link back to Flickr. I might think of making them look a little better maybe opening a lightbox? I also hope to deal with results of > 500 where I would need more than one call to the Flickr api.
This fits very well with my approach to photography. I think of my photos like a diary rather than great photos. I am still shooting auto 99% of the time. I enjoy looking back at pictures in the same way as I like reading old blog posts. I also think it could become more useful over the yeas in letting me know what to look out for.
I also wonder if I could use the same idea for a search of everyone’s photos using a bounding box to limit the area.
The featured image is of a specked wood, my current favourite butterfly.
Summer Holidays
I started this two weeks ago when I went back to school. So past time for a summer recap:
As usual I took some photos, and I’ve strung them together, pummelvision fashion.
I updated the script a bit to fade the audio and added a gentler audio choice.
reading
- The Last Voice You Hear 11/08/2024 tagged: Mick Herron, ★★★
- The Lost Wife 08/08/2024 tagged: Susanna Moore, ★★★★
- Hide and Seek 03/08/2024 tagged: Ian Rankin, ★★★
- Chain-Gang All-Stars 29/07/2024 tagged: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, ★★★
- The Secret Hours 27/07/2024 tagged: Mick Herron, ★★★★
- The Sun Walks Down by Fiona Mcfarlane 24/07/2024 tagged: Fiona Mcfarlane, ★★★★★
- Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen 18/07/2024 tagged: Michelle Gallen, ★★★★
- Long Island by Colm Tóibín 15/07/2024 tagged: Colm Tóibín, ★★★★★
- The Drowning Pool 07/07/2024 tagged: Ross Macdonald, ★★★★
- Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín 06/07/2024 tagged: Colm Tóibín, ★★★★★
- The Slain Birds 03/07/2024 tagged: Michael Longley, ★★★★
- To the Dogs 02/07/2024 tagged: Louise Welsh, ★★★★
- Clear by Carys Davie 30/06/2024 tagged: Carys Davies, ★★★★★
- Bad Actors by Mick Herron 30/06/2024 tagged: Mick Herron, ★★★★
Noted
I’ve continued trying to write one note a day on ‘something natural’ and recording each months notes.
Under The Weather
This summer has certainly not been good on the weather front, the tail end of a bug which seemed to take a long time to go away also slowed me down for most of July. Although I walked around a fair bit very locally (Kilpatrick Hills, Cochno etc). I didn’t add much to the walk list. I still managed to see a few new things (at least to photograph).
Glow Blogs
I continued working one day a week on Glow Blogs. There was a release (Glow Blogs Update 14 Aug 2024), just after the schools returned. I spent a fair bit of time writing and updating the various sites that comprise the help system. Checking things out and spending a lot more time in the Block Editor. Lots more to come on that front. I feel the use of blogs in teaching has decreased a bit but I believe they can still be useful in lots of different ways.
Online Fun
I’ve continued to use my blog (syndicated to mastodon & Bluesky via micro.blog) instead of X. I noticed a fresh flush of twitter educators coming through to Bluesky after Musk’s support for the extreme right in the UK.
I did a few The DS106 Daily Creates, but less than usual, my favourites were #tdc4584 &
TDC 5491.
I dodged away at a personal Flickr search page, Search Flickr – Results by Month, as I like comparing things I’ve seen throughout the year organised by month. I’ve already something similar for this blog.
Holding Back the Years
As someone with an interest in natural history, I often look forward to seasonal occurrences, the first cuckoo or blackthorn blossom.
I also keep track of some of these things here on my blog and on Flickr. I find searching both places useful for all sorts of reasons, but not for figuring out what to expect or remembering when I’ve heard the first cuckoo.
A while back I, sort of solved the problem here by making a page that allows me to search the blog and order the results by the date without the years.
I’ve been playing about with Flickr searches in the same way and now have a simple page which searches for a tag and order the page by months, ignoring the years. The page loads the tag flora by default. If you give it a t parameter, it will search for that instead: ?t=butterfly. I’ve also brefly tested a u parameter for username. This needs to be a user’s NSID (71428177@N00 not troutcolor), it defaults to mine.
It also also loads the first 500 images, which is a bridge I’ll need to cross for some tags soon.
Update, 22 Aug 2025, I’ve improved this somewhat and moved it here: Flickr By Month. Defaults to butterflies now.
As has become custom I’ve made a video of my years flickr photos. I edited the script a little to use larger images & added a different sound track.
Loch Ardinning – British Dragonfly Society
I’ve visited the loch and the The British Dragonfly site many times. Never this page. Quite delighted to see that the header photo is mine. I presumed picked up from Flickr.
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans – Boston Review suggested by John Naughton was an interesting read. Nice featured image too. I followed the attribution link to Flickr and found I’d, in the dim distant past, favoured it.
Good Call Flickr: the original announcement threw me, I’d no idea how to implement a user agent in my amateur use of the Flickr API or if I’d need to. As a tinker I’ve really enjoyed using the Flickr API over the years. The fact it has never changed has been great for me.
A year of Flickr
Another year, another collection of photos
As usual made with few tweaks of this gist. The featured image made with a similar script. Got a tag for these things now: flickr year, need to find a few posts. I’ve been doing these since 2014 time flies!