Photos for 2008-04-01

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Photos, Worksafe No Comments » April 2008

Photos for 2008-03-31

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Photos, Worksafe No Comments » March 2008

Photos For 2008-03-30

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Photos, Worksafe No Comments » March 2008

Photos for 2008-03-29

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Photos, Worksafe No Comments » March 2008

How I Pick The Photos

Someone sent me an email this morning asking how I pick the photos featured here. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, so I figured I’d explain.

I’ve got a private website running on my home web server that is powered by a bunch of software I wrote. That software hits the Flickr site and digs for photos that are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license for a given day and that have a high likelihood of being good.

That process presents me with a list of 500 or so really decent photos and another 300-400 that are tossed out right away. I review that page of thumbnails for those that jump out at me in some way and save those to a “holding pen” of sorts. I deliberately skip any photos that have a high likelihood of getting someone in trouble for all of the posts so far. The category “Worksafe” on this site embodies that. I can see a time when a “NotWorksafe” category is added that would be exactly that, but not now.

Anyway, I then go through that holding pen and review those. There’s usually 15-20 or so. So, I whittle it down to the 10 I like the best and post those. That’s pretty much it.

Because the software powering that site is pretty intense, I’m not opening it up for public use at this point. However, if you’d like to be a contributor to this site (and post your own picks), you can let me know and I’ll get you access to that photo engine.

Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Meta No Comments » March 2008

Photos for 2008-03-28

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. I have to say that choosing today’s photos was fairly difficult. There were lots of good ones to choose from. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Photos for 3-27-2008

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions. Today seems heavily dominated by desaturated images. Don’t know what that says about my mood when picking them, but here they are.

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Photos for 2008-03-26

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Photos for 2008-03-25

Here are 10 of the best photos added to the commons yesterday. Click through to the full article for the larger versions.

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Welcome

From The Commons is a volunteer project whose goal is to highlight the very best in Creative Commons content. The photo section is the first place we started, but will not be where we end. We want to also highlight fiction, poetry, essays, blog entries, paintings and the rest of the full gamut of creative content that people donate to the commons.

We believe that when people share their work with the rest of us under the terms of the licenses that Creative Commons provide everyone benefits.

All of the work on the project is done entirely by volunteers. If you’d like to join up, you should subscribe to the general discussion mailing list.

Posted by J Wynia Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments » March 2008

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