{"id":415,"date":"2008-01-17T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-10-09T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:05:45","slug":"library_of_congress_and_flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/library_of_congress_and_flickr.php","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress and Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">Flickr<\/a> and The Library of Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.com\/2008\/01\/16\/many-hands-make-light-work\/\">announced a project together<\/a> to put a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/\">load of the Libraries photos<\/a> up and to ask the public to create meta data for these photos &#8211; tags, notes etc.<\/p>\n<p>This is a phenomenal achievement for Flickr in my mind, looking through these photos there are some really absolutely amazing shots showing American life in the early 1900s, depression years, the war etc.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time over lunch browsing some of these, the machinery, clothes, culture, cars, architecture, it is all just amazing I wish there were such a good record of the UK available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the images are just great to look at like the one below from 1911, that&#8217;s a hand held large format camera, amazing.<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/2162646403\/in\/set-72157603624867509\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2381\/2162646403_fcbbe516d3_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>Others show the truly amazing work that photographers did in those days and frankly makes me wish I can even come close to this kind of shot on my digital cameras.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=2179139715&amp;size=o\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2275\/2179139715_aee94d399c_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=2179913094&amp;size=o\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2358\/2179913094_3a1591008e_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>Click on these images and look at them, they are phenomenally well done the richness and dynamic range of color in those shots far out paces the results I tend to see on digital.&nbsp; I wish self developing color slides wasn&#8217;t such a pain else I&#8217;d start doing medium format color transparencies right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr and The Library of Congress announced a project together to put a whole load of the Libraries photos up and to ask the public to create meta data for these photos &#8211; tags, notes etc. This is a phenomenal achievement for Flickr in my mind, looking through these photos there are some really absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}