Taken at Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado.
You know, I really need to upload the rest of my photos from the October road trip. At the moment, though, I’m just testing a new beta version of ecto, 2.2.0 beta 3, and it has a very, very cool Flickr plug-in that pulls photos in very nicely, and then it applies all my fussy drop shadow doodaddery.
This process would be speeded up greatly (like, Warp 10, Mr. Worf greatly) if I could log in automatically to Flickr.
However, I couldn’t log in to my own personal photos to pull them, although I can pull “everyone’s” without special permission (it’s called an API key, but I can’t figure out where to put it). I got around that by using the unique tag I assigned to my “best in show” photosets when I set up a similar plug-in in WordPress. Just so you know, that tag is “blogula.”
I’d rather use ecto because of all the pre-sets; for technical reasons it’s not as easy to use some of my image shadow stuff with their post editing window. Just now I logged a question about how to go about authenticating ecto for Flickr.
Everyone stop scratching your heads, please. Except my husband David, and Dave of DDtB, who also uses ecto.
If I weren’t already a registered user of ecto, you could call this post “demo-bloggery.”
[tags]ecto, WordPress, Flickr, Maroon Bells, Nature, Photography[/tags]
Ha.
Just as I don’t like my blog hosted by someone other than me, I’ve never gotten over the fear that Flickr will one day disappear, stop being free, get bought by Micro$oft, whatever. So I still host all my photos myself.
Of course, I’m also about two years behind in getting things posted. 😛
Yep, all the photos I take get uploaded to my laptop, and the “best” ones are the ones that go on to be part of my Flickr photos. I’ve also got a Gallery page, which is a real pain to upload to since I have to tinker around with a user-unfriendly interface. Photos there are on a different server in the basement.
It’s easier to use Flickr, and now the new ecto beta works, too. The trick is apparently to disregard the Flickr “Ooops!” page message, and to go back to ecto and click “finished.”
It’s really quite slickeroo, all my pre-set drop shadow settings come in automagically.