I was writing about a pilot the Library of Congress was doing with Flickr. I measured also number of tags, notes and comments and repeated the process several times during last 2 months. Here are some numeric results: As expected, while tags, notes and comments still coming, in general the ...
On Dizengoff street, Tel-Aviv. © Elena Tkachenko ...
The Library of Congress has launched an interesting pilot project with Flickr, which can be characterized as a crowdsourcing experiment. They have uploaded 3115 copyright-free photos from two of the most popular collections and in return they hope the Flickr community will enhance the collections by labeling and commenting images ...
Seems like my wife has found the hobby of her life. She's all about photography now. Books, sites, forums. She's overgrown our little but powerful Canon S70 and got new shiny (not really shiny, but a black one) Canon 400D (aka XTi). S70 is finally mine again! Here are some her ...
We spent half of today in the "Leumi" park of Ramat-Gan. The weather was just wonderful lovely. Here are some photos to let you feel Israel winter: ...
It's blooming time in Israel. Really nice around. My favorite time. The photos are taken by Alenka, my wife. I think she's outgrown out little Canon S70 and needs some SLR camera. Anybody has any advices for buying first digital SLR thing? ...
This is a great picture my wife took. It's Tel-Aviv beach view from a landing plane. Speaking of Tel-Aviv, we've got something unusual happenning here. There was a tornado near the beach and UFO over the city. Btw, I believe I've seen that tornado while driving to work via Tel-Aviv. ...
Remember this famous Mars face? So recently NASA found another one, here in the Earth, in Australia actually. They call it "Ghostly Face In South Australian Desert". I first though it's about upside-down face that reminds Dali paintings, but no. Can you see a ghost face here? That's really stupid ...
© Alenka Tkachenko ...
My wife's been chasing grasshoppers this fall: ...
Future developer? No doubts! ...
Hibiscus blooms again at our home. Actually outdoor it blooms non stop all year here in Israel, serving as a perfect undemanding but beautiful hedge. It's everywhere, every color and every form, there are even Hibiscus trees. But my home Hibiscus blooms two or three months in a row, then ...