Still figuring out the best way to share my photos with you all.

Has anyone got this down yet?  It seems like it should be so easy in the digital age to share your photos with everyone.  There are, after all, so very many options.  This is one, sure, but there is a limit to how many photos I can "store" on Blogger, and it's not like I want to post 75+ photos here on the page for a given event.  Plus, I want the people in the photos to have access to the high-res file for ordering prints or just storing on their own computers.  So that puts most photo processing sites out.  Ritzpix works, you can download and order good quality prints, but it's not the most Mac-friendly, I am not keen on how they display the photos on their site, and I have questions about how long the photos will really stay on there.

So now I'm trying Flickr out a little more.  I signed up for the pro account for a year to see what I think.  My first batch of photos to share is an oldie and way overdue.  These are photos from my sister Katrin's graduation in 2005.  I'm going through an editing or re-editing all my older digital photos now that I have a nicer image-editing set up, and this happened to be among my first batch of images complete.

You can see them all if you go to my photostream, but they are all out of order and everything.  So, if you want to look, it's best to check out the individual sets: 


Graduation ceremony, day 1 (78 photos)

Graduation ceremony, day 2 (14 photos)


Portraits (36 photos)

You can order prints or download any image you want at full size by clicking on "All sizes."

There are still some issues with sharing this way.  For one, I'd like Katrin to be able to batch download entire sets instead of having to download them one by one.  Then there are privacy issues.  If I set the photos to private then I have to send individual invites to everyone who will be allowed to see the images and I won't be able to link the photos here.  If I put them public then anyone can see them.  Fully public means they get published and are searchable on Flickr's site.  I have these set to hidden from the main area, so if you don't know the link, supposedly you won't see them.

Well, anyway, there are far too many photos in there for most of you (who aren't in Katrin's immediate family) to check out, so here are some highlights:

Some of you may recognize this first photo as the reference photo for this drawing.

Note:  if you plan to take a photo like this, PLEASE check to make sure you're not giving your subject reindeer antlers!

The loopy thing on her back was very important.  It signified her new "doctor" status (right Katrin?).

But it made for an awkward pose!