When thinking of keywords to search on Flickr, for reasons unbeknownst to me I arrived at the word "Disaster"; surely this would yield some interesting results! When I typed the word into the search box and hit enter, a multitude of pictures came up within seconds. Among them were images that I would not have associated with the word "Disaster"; for instance, a chocolate cake, a beautiful red rose, and a stained glass window depicting Jesus! After perusing through some of the pictures I chose the one of a "Disaster" drill by the Phillipine Coast Guard. In the photo, two members of the PCG prepare to jump from the sides of a moving helicopter into the Pacific Ocean. The purpose of the drill was to see how well the Guard would perform in the event of a "supertyphoon".
Using Flickr was very simple and self-explanatory. I had never accessed the site before, but had no trouble at all learning to use it. will probably use it frequently in the future, if nothing else for entertainment purposes!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/currentnews/3502036304/
The photographer is Aaron Favila (Associated Press)
(I apologize, but I was unable to obtain a correct "image URL" for adding the picture to this post; I have opted, instead, for a link)
I had the same experience with flicker. I typed in pro-Israel (or something to that fact) and I came back with just the opposite. It was a bunch of anti-semitic, anti-Zion garbage. I was disappointed. I had to search forever until I found something that suited my liking. I wonder what the deal is there?
ReplyDeleteI know right! I guess it just comes from people tagging all kinds of random pictures for reasons that aren't really obvious.. kind of makes it interesting to read the posts with the pictures and find out why they were tagged with that word! For example, the chocolate cake I mentioned was apparently one of the baker-blogger's worst, so she tagged it as a "disaster"!
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