Motorcycle diary of Joy Dutta

Have been contemplating switching to flickr for some time, ofcourse due to its excellent user interface, slideshow, ease of uploading and management.

But it lacks a very important functionality needed by serious photographers. A hobby photographer has to have some means to refer to the large archive of high res photos from the web-sized one he/she puts in a gallery. Put any image in pbase.com, say _dsc1234.jpg and then change its caption. When you try to download or right-click->view-image, you see the filename right away. Makes life a hell lot easy to find that pic from the 200gb external harddisk. Same with fotopic.net. But no such luck with flickr. Put some snap there and forget the original filename forever, for it gets a totally new image sequence number and the original filename serves temporarily as the caption placeholder.

What were the flickr guyz thinking ?

Unless there is a way to do this, I have to use it only for snapshots and not “photographs”.

Pbase.com looks old school, but has a professional look and got the basics right from the beginning. I got to stick with it for a while.

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