Kerri and I have re-tooled our Flickr photos. Rather than having the typical "tags" on each photo, we have only tagged people (and dogs) in the photos. For example, a photo of Jeff and Kerri playing football would not contain any mention of football or playing, but would only be tagged with "jeff" and "kerri". The descriptions of the photos are where we might add those kinds of key words. Every photo on our Flickr account has been tagged in this manner.

So why is this important?

We wanted to make it easier to search for specific photos in our collection. When we want to find a photo of a specific friend for a specific reason, we generally had to browse through nearly 15,000 photographs. That's pretty tedious. Now we can get results via a specific search. For example, a search for the tags "Mateo" and "Marluce" will provide results with both kids in it (click here to see the results). On Flickr we can sort by popularity and date as well, to further narrow down results.

Furthermore, we can narrow down results by people who we DON'T want to see in the photo, either. For example: A search for tags "Mateo" and "Marluce" but excluding photos with "Jeff" and "Kerri" in them would show only photos with Mateo and Marluce, but nothing where Jeff and Kerri are present (click here to see the results).

Even cooler is that we can search by date. A search for "Jeff" and "Kerri" between 1/1/2002 and 12/31/2003 would only show results from within those two years (click here to see the results). So what are you waiting for? Get searching and find some great photos you didn't know existed... of you!

Labels: family, kids, photos, site info

Tell me this isn't adorable! She was smiling and giggling the whole time, it was so cute!

Labels: kids, school