How do you organize yours?

I’m so giddy! :)

More on that here.

Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off.

And now? Many people are going around and whining that this is censorship! Lyke OMG!!!1!!!1 I can’t believe you said the “C-word”!

This obviously has something to do with local laws and such for these nations and I’m sure that Flickr wouldn’t institute that policy unless they felt they had to, yet there are many people just going around different areas of Flickr causing trouble about it. It’s really not a big deal, people. I’ve come across many, many, people who live in those countries but have “regular” Yahoo IDs. Get one of those! Or how about go to Google for your porn?

Okay, that’s really not the issue at hand right now. Whether or not you agree with the new bit in the TOS is completely irrelevant here. What is getting on my nerves is that these people are whining about it everywhere.

Why can no one be mature these days? Why must they take every little minor infraction so personal and force everyone in the community to suffer their whines?

For instance, the announcement about the Flickr book (the one I mentioned before) had a healthy thread going until someone decided to jump in and say, “well I’m not buying it because you censor!” Um, dude, did anyone ask you? And every-freaking-where he posts this huge image that has some German in it but also says in English, “Think, Flickr, think!” Someone else posts an image that says, “I won’t post photos until flickr has removed all filters. Let’s start to boycott them. We are the community!” Yeah, and I’m part of the community, too, and I say who the crap cares if you upload images or not? How about you all take the discussions somewhere where you will actually be heard instead of looking like a crying baby?

That’s what annoys me. Take your complaints to Flickr and leave the rest of us out of it. Because you know what? I’ll guarantee you most people don’t give a flying flip and all your incessant whining is just going to make them want to support Flickr in this decision just to “show you.”

You want to whine about something? How about do something useful with your time like trying to stop hunger? Or bring world peace? Sheesh, just grow up people!

/incoherent rant.

Anyway, my image was chosen! Hey, I don’t care how menial this is, I’m excited!

That’s my photo. I went to the zoo that day with my sister-in-law Morgan and my niece and Sarah and Elijah, of course. I submitted this photo rather than an animal or something (since that was what I had the majority of and in my opinion were some of the best from the day) because to me, it just looks like everyone’s having fun… even the fish!

So anyway, I can’t wait to redeem my coupon code to get my free book, either, this is fun. :) Yay!

The groups, for example. I realized that I was just in way too many of them, there was simply no way I could participate in them all. I found myself leaving groups that I didn’t even realize I was in, groups that I’d never submitted anything to, etc. I went from about 130 groups or more to 74, not including those 8 I administer. I’m still going through groups, trying to see if there are any that I can leave. I just want to participate with a few that really match my interests. If it’s one thing that annoys me about Flickr though, it’s the fact that it doesn’t list my groups alphabetically on the group page. Ohhh that bugs me, it’s so hard to find the one I want without Ctrl+F-ing it. :P

I removed a contact or two. One suddenly disappeared from Flickr with all of her photos. One I never talk to, have never enjoyed their photostream, etc.

I’ve done some set organization, too. Created a couple and moved photos over, deleted a couple, rearranged them all. Heck, I deleted 209 photos from one particular set, saving about 50 in that set, moving them to another. Don’t worry, it’s nothing you’d miss. They were all horrible, bad, old scans I had every intention of re-doing and updating… but months later I still haven’t and their very presence annoyed me. Haha, Flickr asked me about 4 times if I seriously wanted to delete those 209 photos or what.

But speaking of sets, I’ve always been a little unsure of how I should organize them. As of now, there are a few general categories but the rest are all categorized by location and the set list is growing all the time. How do you organize yours?

Oh, and while you’re here, how about a photo of my neighbor’s clematis? You know, to welcome you to September…

UPDATE: Oh. My. Gosh. This is. The. COOLEST. Thing EVER. I’m going to be here all night adding my photos to this map, I can feel it! Muahahahahaha
http://flickr.com/photos/anela/map/

For instance, check out Quarrion‘s set of flowers and nature!

Addition: also check out Bellablue’s photostream – wow!