Lamanai Ruins, Belize

Lamanai Ruins, Belize
Originally uploaded by amazingknittingkitty.

Last March my husband and I went on a Western Caribbean cruise for our anniversary. One of our favorite experiences was in Belize where we visited the Lamanai Ruins. There were three large structures like this, and we were allowed to climb two of them. The view from the top was amazing and we could see even more ruins that had been over taken by the jungle.

Using Flickr was surprisingly easy. I started by wandering around the house taking photos of bookish type things, stacks of book, our various bookcases, etc...

I found the upload process no difficult than uploading photos to Costco. It was the tagging process that I found the most interesting. It reminded me of being at the iSchool and my intro to cataloging class- I must confess that was my only cataloging class. It was fun to think of all the ways to identify the objects in my pictures, and let's just say the tag IKEA was included.

I only meant to upload and tag the 5 shots I'd taken for the purpose of using with Flickr, but I was inspired enough to upload some other shots in my digital library like this one. I felt them to be more visually interesting than my bookcases.

I found it very intuitive to go back in to delete tags (like the one assigned to my bookcase) and change descriptions, even adding this photo to my blog proved to be pain free.

Personally, I don't think Flickr is viable for all photos, at least not the way I use them. Indexing hundreds of photos would make my brain melt. But for the few exceptional photos, the tagging could be quite useful and browsing through other public photos is quite entertaining.