Our photos from the Grand Canyon trip are up on Flickr. We are travelling home today so we will write more about the trip later. For now you can see the photos we took.

Grand Canyon Trip [05.2008] on Flickr

Labels: Grand Canyon, holiday, photos, vacation

Kerri's photo collage thingy always has great photos to look at and reminisce about some of the fun times we've had in the 8 years since we've known each other.

Labels: photos

I heard that the Tucson Unified School District has decided to close Corbett Elementary School so I thought I'd go get some photos of the campus (and of course we took Elway the Dog, too):


See the rest of the Corbett photos here.

After Corbett we decided to head to Alice Vail Middle School:


See the rest of the Vail photos here.

Labels: corbett, photos, schools, vail

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

I have been uploading the last of the wedding photos to Flickr today. There are about 1.5 Gigs worth of photos, so it will be going on for the next several hours. Enjoy!

Labels: photos