Library porn

While I have peered at people's photos on flickr before, I've not actually done too much searching. Time to change that! My primary search today has been with a focus: I want library porn. You know, the beautiful buildings, the stunning old books, the staircases... all of that. There's a book that has actually been published somewhere full of library porn, and boy, it really is. But flickr is full of this kind of thing, too. Like this:


'The Old Library', by (Eric) 2007

I particularly like the way the photographer has put notes on the photo to point out different features - where his camera was, reflections he liked, and so on. Flickr really is a great resource for photographers to show off... as long as people can find what they've put up. I found this doing a search for 'library', but I bet, on a different day, with other photos uploaded in the meantime, I might not get it so quickly.

Another way I've seen flickr used is for online stores, advertising their products. Wyrding Studios, for example, make handmade jewellery, and as pieces get made, they upload the pictures to flickr. Some of these will be commission pieces, but others will be part of the weekly update, in which they upload all the new pieces to their storefront, and people can buy them. By having them on flickr earlier, though, people can scope out what they might want - and they can go through and get an idea of what kind of thing they might want to commission. The flickr stream for Wyrding Studios is here. I wish they'd tag more, though: it would be nice to be able to search for specific stones, or metals, or styles, and see all the pictures right there. There is some of that functionality on their website, but I'd love to see it in the stream, too.

I was going to put some jewellery porn up here, to end the post off, but then I ended up doing another random search, and instead, I'll end (maybe more appropriately, given my blog title), with this:


'Intellectual Hour' by un4gtableann, 2007

(Though I suppose I should have taken a picture of myself, instead! Or, at least, my socks (I have woven blue ones, all heavy cotton and funky patterns, today), my books).