Tom Eppenberger Jr’s blog

For those of you not paying attention, I’ve been putting lots of video clips up on Flickr the last few weeks. Since they introduced the video capabilities, I’ve been trying to take advantage. Plus, I have about 40-50 video clips of Lane over the last few years that needs to be edited and what not, and then it will find its way up there (slowly but surely).

Awesome! I’ve wanted this ability for a long time now, and my initial impression is that they did a great job. Better yet, WordPress.com already has support for it…

Taken at the Flickr photo frame at Maker Faire.

Hamad Darwish is a professional photographer that was hired by Microsoft to “create genuine images to be a part of the Windows Vista Wallpaper collection.”

Two of his photos made it to the final version of Windows Vista, and now he has posted hi-res versions of all the ones that didn’t make it. There are some great pictures here that would make awesome wallpapers, regardless of the operating system you choose to use.

Besides the Windows Vista photos, he has some other amazing stuff on Flickr that you should check out.

I’ve ordered prints of my photos from Flickr many times in the past, but had always utilized their mail order service.

Well, my Grandma wanted some new photos of Lane to show off at a monthly lunch group that she is having at her house this coming week, so mail delivery wasn’t going to be possible.

I ordered the prints on Flickr, and then chose the option to have them sent to a local Target store that offered one hour processing. Seemed easy enough.

A few minutes later, I placed a second order of prints that were meant to fill up a large number of frames that we got over the holidays. Shortly after I placed the order, I got a call from the Target store saying that they didn’t have paper to print some of the sizes that I had ordered…

The big problem here ended up being that Target cannot fulfill partial orders, it’s all or nothing. So they couldn’t print the 16 photos that they had paper for, and just ignore the 2 that they didn’t have paper for. They also cannot transfer the order the another store, so my only option was canceling the order and re-submitting it to be fulfilled at a different Target store. Whatever.

Sent the order in to a different store and had no further problems, other than having to go to two different Target stores to get all of the photos.

I highly recommend that people use this service when they want to get prints from Flickr. It is super-cheap, super-fast and dead-simple… as long as they have paper…