Finding these photos can be very time-consuming – especially when your destination consists of 11 Texas counties. Manually searching for town or attraction names is tedious at best. What if there were a way to have great photography delivered to you on a daily basis?
What if you didn’t have to hunt for them any more? What would that be worth to you?
Now. What if I told you it was free and just takes a few simple steps to get set up?
Well, wait no more!
Step 1:
- Visit http://www.flickr.com/places.
- Type in the name of your destination or town/state and click “Search”.
Step 2:
- Review the amazing information you can get from just doing this simple search.
- Popular tags, interesting and recent photo uploads, featured local photographers, and groups that contain photos from your destination.
- Check out what is circled in red in the 2nd photo below ==> You can subscribe to the geofeed via RSS!
- Click on the word “geofeed” to obtain the URL.
- The geofeed pulls photos that are geo-tagged to your destination either manually by you when you place your Flickr photo on a map, or automatically by your smart phone or digital camera.
Step 4:
- Copy and paste the feed’s URL into the reader of your choice (just like you would subscribe to a blog). I like Google Reader.
- Click the “Add” button to subscribe.
- You can rename the feed to something that makes more sense than “Recent Uploads”, as well as place your new feed into a category.
Step 5:
- Bask in the glory of your awesomeness as you watch those beautiful photos get delivered to your Google Reader every single day. Without even trying.
Step 6:
- Click on the photos you like. It will take you to the photo’s page on Flickr.
- Under the “Actions” menu, click on “Invite to/remove from group”.
- Select the group where you’d like to add the photo, and presto! The photographer will be notified that you’ve requested their photo be added to your group.
- They can accept or decline.
So what do you think? Will you do it?
Note: Big props go my friend and sometimes Flickr mentor Brooks Bennett (@BrooksBennett) for teaching me how to do this. Did you know Brooks created TweetChat? Did I mention he’s smart?
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This is fantastic, thanks for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed it, Kathy!
Indeed!! Excellent.. its will really save lots of time getting this done, i will definitely try it out and will get back to you if any issues.
Thanks for posting
I LOVE this! Thank you so much for the step by step!
Thanks biodun and Stephanie for the kind words! I’m really glad you think this post was helpful. I know I used to spend tons of time searching for photos, and this has made it so easy. Let me know how it works for you.
– Sarah