Reflecting...

Flickr have sent me a message that they will delete over 2000 of my photos hosted on their site, because I no longer have a 'Pro' account & therefore can only have 1000 photos there. Part of me is, of course, outraged by this - having been a 'Pro' member for about 10 years before they put the price up to over AUD$60 per year - part of me is kind of okay with it, as long as they start the removal from the oldest → newest & not the other way around. While it may be of some use to me, to see how I progressed as a photographer over a decade of hits'n'misses, it's not necessarily something that anyone else is interested in trawling through & I'd probably prefer it if people saw the newest 1000 which are a world away in quality from the place where I started

It is annoying, as Flickr is easily the best photo-hosting site I've found. I've been using a free account with 500px for the last year since the price rise & it's not as easy to use, limits the number of photos you can post at a time & just doesn't have the same sense of community that I found on Flickr. Despite all this, I still find it hard to assign a value of AUD$60+ to it...

In other news, after a week of humidity, Winter is coming... outside right now it's quite windy & the temperature has definitely dropped a few degrees since Friday's ridiculous-for-mid-Autumn 27○. To celebrate the change to the cooler seasons, L-SP has caught a cold from somewhere & I'm doing my best to keep it away from me. That she's been on night-shift most of the last week, has made that a little easier, but the next few days on a common circadian rhythm will be the real test