Poor, poor, pitiful me.  I just bought another year of Flickr Pro. You have every right to cue the violins, especially the very small ones that are playing just for me.  I know that this is basically a whine.  The thing is, I have almost no traffic on my pictures on Flickr anymore. I get [...]

Since I was wound up trying to get this computer repaired, and then my photo contest results written up, I forgot clean about this year’s Veterans Day.  I usually have this day in mind, as my father served in the Army in World War II, and came out of it with a Purple Heart. This [...]

Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life and other virtual worlds. All rights to featured images are reserved to the artists under appropriate copyright laws. Click on the links as necessary to go to the required blog, Flickr or Koinup page. Please go to these artists’ [...]

I’ve opened a fresh gallery on Flickr, themed around historical and vintage fashion from Second Life.  This is the third gallery I’ve come up with, joining Living the Second Life and Women and the Sea.  Unlike the other two, though, Vintage Second Life Fashion will probably be a rotating exhibit, with new works cycling out [...]

Want a trick to increase your traffic to blog articles or Flickr and Koinup photos?  Use Twitter and TweetMeme.  Almost everyone knows about Twitter by now, of course; and many Residents have a Twitter account.  (I do myself — Harper_G.)  And, if you’re writing a blog on wordpress.com, such as this one, you can set [...]

Of course, we all know what Second Life is really for…. …The fashion, dahlings! But, contrary to appearances, especially on this blog, it’s not all about big ball gowns or outlandish costumes.  One of the most successful newcomers to Grid couture in the past six months has been fri.day, a house that specializes in J. [...]

Flickr has a lovely little function called Galleries, which allows you to put together pictures from the public, safe photos into a collection around a theme that inspires you.  Say, to use a common SL theme, you want to run a gallery of some of the best fashion photos from the Grid.  You choose which [...]

Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life and other virtual worlds. Images used in this article are used under permission of the owners via their participation in the Creative Commons license; otherwise, all rights are reserved. Click on the links as necessary to go to the [...]

The American Veterans Day is coming up in a little under a month.  As I believe I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I have a special appreciation for this day because of my late father, who served in World War II and was wounded in Europe. Last year, I founded a Flickr group dedicated to photos of veterans’ [...]

When Koinup opened up the groups feature, putting them on a nearly even keel with Flickr, they satisfied a pent-up demand.  There was an explosion of group creation within just the first few days, most of them open to more virtual worlds than just Second Life.  This has tapered off with time, of course, but [...]