I have just deleted my Flickr account, my last link to the corporate social media. It’s a sad moment in a way, as I have been using Flickr for a very, very long time, and so I have dithered much over doing this. But it’s been very long time since Flickr was worth while, the Yahoo takeover in 2008 pretty much killed it, from then on it was just hoping against hope, and since SmugMug took over in 2018 my departure was inevitable, as a previous customer of theirs I don’t have a great opinion of their business, and really just hang on by sheer momentum. For a long time it has been nothing more than a place to dump photos to share somewhere else, and there are better solutions for that nowadays. My more serious work can be found on tf.photography, while the sort of stuff I might have once posted to Flickr will be landing on aye.photos, though I don’t have much of that these days.

One of the consequences of this decision is that my old blog posts will have broken images now. I might fix that as/if/when I notice; it’s a lesson in reliance on external services — keep your stuff yours and self-contained. I’ll also have to fix the SM links on this blog, but that’s, unfortunately, more involved. Anyway, I am off to the darkroom now.