Now evaluating cloud file storage and sharing provider jottacloud. Must say that I am quite impressed. Nice mobile app and easy to organise and share photo albums.

https://www.jottacloud.com

#CloudStorage #PhotoSharing #privacy #jottacloud

In trying to move away from #GooglePhotos for #PhotoSharing (as in many photos for #FamilyEvents/#FriendEvents), I’ve realized how there’s no real good way to do this these day. The web interfaces are all meh to blah.

Is #Flickr still a thing? Do people still use it?

#photography #photosharing

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Ich habe mir Dank @dansup nun auch einen @pixelfed Account angelegt und meinen ersten Post (inkl. ein paar Making of's ) veröffentlicht:

✨ https://pixelfed.social/janvoth

#Pixelfed #Fediverse #Photography #photosharing

Ich habe mir Dank @dansup nun auch einen pixelfed@mastodon.social Account angelegt und meinen ersten Post (inkl. ein paar Making of's ) veröffentlicht:

✨ https://pixelfed.social/janvoth

#Pixelfed #Fediverse #Photography #photosharing

Shots from the area in and around the Cayo district in #Belize. We stayed at an amazing ecolodge and nature reserve called Chaa Creek. The first image shows a blue Morpho butterfly getting handsy with yours truly.

#photographoftheday #photography #history #NaturePhotography #centralamerica #travel #travelphotography #travelwithme #art #potd #photoamateurs #photosharing #InsectsofMastodon

Xunantnuich is my #PhotoOfTheDay today. These are Mayan ruins. At its peak about 200,000 people lived in this metro area.

The Belizean mainland is stunning, sparsely populated rugged landscapes. The Maya Mountains are mostly rainforest jungle.

More shots from the Cayo district in the B series (in the comments, as always).

#photographoftheday #photography #history #NaturePhotography #centralamerica #travel #travelphotography #travelwithme #art #potd #photoamateurs #photosharing #archaeology

By the way here's that airport in San Ignacio I mentioned above. Very quaint. Excuse the heavy editing on the first one, it was too much fun to do.

#photographoftheday #photography #nature #NaturePhotography #jungle #centralamerica #travel #travelphotography #potd #photosharing #airports #Art #belize

B series today is more aerial shots of #Belize, including two where you can see the jungle meet the ocean. I took these on a flight from San Ignacio to the Cayes where we were staying for some diving. There was no airport in San Ignacio the first time I went....a happy development for people who want to see both the jungle and the ocean on their stay.

#photographoftheday #photography #nature #NaturePhotography #ocean #centralamerica #travel #travelphotography #potd #photosharing #scuba

The Blue Hole is my #PhotoOfTheDay today. I've done many dives in Belize over two trips there, but never dived this. So much to see and do I guess.

More aerial shots in the B series (in the comments, as always). Tomorrow I'll finish up #Belize by posting photos from the Cayo jungle. That will be quite different.

#photographoftheday #photography #nature #NaturePhotography #ocean #centralamerica #travel #travelphotography #travelwithme #art #potd #photoamateurs #photosharing #scuba #diving

Browse by camera or lens type! @glass #glassApp #tryGlass #photoSharing

https://glass.photo/highlights/camera-lens-feeds

Feeding the Pixels

I use an automated, commercial service(1) to post my photos to Instagram & Facebook (and birdsite, in the past). It's worth it, to me, to be able to shoot, edit, and schedule on the weekend and have posts show up all week long.

Unfortunately, that same service doesn't support ActivityPub. Several people have asked and, maybe, it'll show up later...but it is an impediment to my process. So, I found Instagram2Fedi (https://github.com/Horhik/Instagram2Fedi) (or I2M, from here on) and started building what I wanted.

What did I want? It's not a perfect solution but I wanted a cron job that looks for new Instagram posts and, if it finds them, mirrors them to PixelFed. (There are lots of ways this solution could be better but, as of now, either Instagram doesn't support them or my posting service doesn't.).

So, first, I2M requires you to provide Instagram credentials so that it can login on your behalf to scrape your images & repost them. (In the Fediverse, I can generate an API token like it's 2022...but not so much for IG.). Unfortunately, this didn't work for me -- instead of getting authenticated, I got a challenge that required me to copy a link, go to a browser, paste it, agree that this was, in fact, me, and...by that time, I2M had failed out. Endless loop.

After a lot of reading, testing, and playing, I realized something important: IG doesn't require credentials the first time you browse. You can do that anonymously. It's only after you've browsed over some threshold that it'll require a login. So, even though I'm not exactly a Python programmer, I started poking at I2M and made the credentials optional.

This led to my second problem...as written, I2M wants to run continuously. Scrape, post, sleep, scrape post, sleep. while True:. So, I added a new config option to say, hey, I really only want to run this once.

Now I had what I wanted. If I was a normal geek, I would've added that to crontab and called it a day...but I haven't spent the last few years in Kubernetes for nothing. All the automation around here happens on the k8s cluster and this is not going to be an exception. Spent a bit of time putting it together and, now, a job runs once an hour to see if I've posted anything to IG. If I have, it magically appears in @Neilcar@pixelfed.social.

I've submitted a pull request for all the changes to I2M and, if anybody else would benefit from sharing the k8s YAML, I'm happy to clean that up & add it to.

#PixelFed #instagram #automation #photosharing #RubeGoldberg #Instagram2Fedi @horhik

Can anybody tell me how I can #share from #pixelfed to #mastodon in a way that you all can see the #photos and not only a link like the above? (I used the share-link of pixelfed in my browser). #photosharing #askfedi

I joined Mastodon about two weeks back and just about getting to interact with more people as Mastodon user base increases and enjoying it.

I would also suggest everyone to try out Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) - a decentralized photo sharing service which also uses ActivityPub, which means Mastodon and Pixelfed are interoperable.

I am on Pixelfed at https://pixelfed.social/kamath, hoping to see more people using it as well.

#Pixelfed #ActivityPub #PhotoSharing #MastIndia

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#photography #amateurphotography #photosharing

#ThrowBackThursday #Archaeology #1970
Camping in #MachuPicchu was inspiring, sleeping in the agricultural huts with a few backpackers, fewer tourists then.
One morning a Guardia came in, asked to hang up his sidearm, he didn't want to desecrate the ruins carrying it. So 1970.
Fast forward, bountiful #PhotoSharing, #GPS tracks online, #GoogleEarth #placemarking.
Download Machupicchu Sites #KML
http://www.jqjacobs.net/andes/kml/machupicchu.kml
with many selected photo embeds in the placemark balloons.

I was writing this in 2014....

http://giovannisavinophotography.com/blog/2014/05/the-unsustainable-age-of-sharing/

#fotografia #photography #sharing #copyright #photosharing #dirittidautore
#Free #art #arte #gratis

Some image compression thoughts All that said, compressed jpg looks much better on fine details than WebP
So for your Photographic work maybe compressed jpg and your social photos WebP

#Photography #Photosharing #internet

Some image compression thoughts for saving space on #mastodon WebP clearly wins and is why insta and others do it.
These are the files sizes after compression in tinyjpg

#Photography #Photosharing #internet