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Flogr – A Flickr powered photoblog

Michael — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:55:50 +0000

Introduction

Flogr shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details, geo data, and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile. With flogr you can control which photos are shown by specifying the flickr tag(s) to include so you can show only your best photographs if you choose.

Flogr is powered by PHP, MySQL (optional), and Flickr. It is an easy to setup and easy to customize alternative for folks that currently hack their own photoblog using MT or WordPress, or those trying to make Gallery or Pixelpost work with Flickr. If you use Flickr and want to have your own photoblog, but don’t want to hack blog software or upload the same pictures multiple times (to flickr and pixelpost for example) then Flogr may be what you’re after.

Demo

Features

Customizable photoblog interface for your flickr photos
Photo details overlay displays description, EXIF data, tags, geo data, and comments
Thumbnail viewer displays photos by date taken, photoset, and tag
Slimbox photo slideshow
Flickr tag cloud page
Flickr groups support
RSS 2.0 support

Kudos

Requirements

PHP version 4 or >
MySQL (optional)

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Flogr is free to use. Want to share the love? You can by feeding my caffeine addiction or buying me a beer. Thanks!

Dinner with friends

Michael — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:06:19 +0000

It was great to see you all! Thank you so much for making the trek to meet up!

From Christmas 2007

New photos page

Michael — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:36:19 +0000

Recently I’ve been thinking about getting back into the habit of taking pictures daily (or at least regularly), but I wasn’t wild about my current system of posting a picture to flickr and then manually uploading, titling, and commenting the photo again on my photoblog site which uses pixelpost. But tonight I found a nice WordPress plugin called FAlbum that may finally set me free from my multiple photo upload routine. FAlbum let’s you display your flickr pictures through your WordPress theme, which to me, makes it feel a little more personal. So head on over to the new photos page and have a look around.

Don’t worry I float

Michael — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:40:48 +0000

We’ve been getting a bit of rain lately. The first picture was taken in August and the second picture was taken on 11/5.

Map of Springfield

Michael — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:47:53 +0000

On Photography

Michael — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:56:19 +0000

In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images.

Susan Sontag
Excerpt from On Photography

North Shore – Maui

Michael — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:42:12 +0000

North Shore – Maui

Destin

Michael — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:48:58 +0000

Destin

Digital photography tutorials

Michael — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:35:36 +0000

A collection of digital photography tutorials.

Light Box

Michael — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:43:44 +0000

A few weeks ago I posted about a light box bulding tutorial I found on the web. I thought I’d show you how my light box turned out. It’s a little rough, but it produced some pictures that I think turned out pretty well considering I took them.

Here are a couple of shots of this vase that I posted earlier.

I’m reminded of my light box (which I haven’t used since) because of another “build your own” tutorial I came across today. It looks a little more stable than my current light box. I think I’ll give it a go this weekend.