Junction Triangle photo group on Flickr
A few weeks ago I created a Junction Triangle group on Flickr (a photography website). This group allows anyone to join and post photos of our neighbourhood, and you can easily find them by browsing through the group. It will be a good complement to the photo gallery that already exists on this website.
There are currently 15 members and 93 photos in the group (as of August 4 2010). Take a look at the slideshow above, or go directly to the Junction Triangle Flickr group to check it out. And of course, if you're a Flickr member, be sure to join the group and add your own photos too.
There are actually many more photos of the Junction Triangle on Flickr that are not part of the group. Some other ways to find them are:
- Look for photos tagged with "Junction Triangle"
- Look for photos that are geotagged / mapped into the Junction Triangle area.
- Search Flickr for local keywords or phrases like "Junction Triangle", "Symington Toronto", "Railpath", etc..etc...
Please note that the "Junction Triangle" geotag / map on Flickr is inaccurate. I'm not sure how they decided to draw the neighbourhood boundaries, but their Junction Triangle map is a little odd, including much of The Junction and excluding parts of the Junction Triangle. Also, some people have tagged their photos with "Junction Triangle" even when they are well outside of this area.
In any case, have a look around in the Junction Triangle Flickr group and within other parts of Flickr. There's plenty to see there, and some excellent surprises. Post links to some of your favourites in the comments below.
I will probably use some of these photos for some future posts/articles on this website.
Comments
Fuzzy Foto
I've got a few local pictures. Some of them are from High Park, and the waterfront; which is part of my experience living here.
So, how fuzzy are your boundaries?
Not so fuzzy :)
I'd prefer if things in the Junction Triangle group were actually within the railway borders, or right around that edge.
My experience of living here also includes High Park, the waterfront, Duffering Grove, Chinatown, the Humber River, etc. but it doesn't really fit in with the geographical context of this group.
framing
Well, I've certainly got pictures from within the tracks but some of the fuzzy ones are artistic and beautiful. When I do go to High Park these days I seldom take my camera. But many people there do have cameras, so I would guess a good number of people around here would find some artistic stimulation in various nearby places.
On the other hand, if you are getting many pictures from people outside of the community you might not be interested in all their shots - that's understandable.
No big deal, but if it gets you a larger group of local (amateur / less experienced) photographers it might be worth thinking about being flexible. I ran a community photo site for a while and ended up posting many photos that would have been deleted if they were mine just because I wanted to encourage people.
Artistic fuzziness
Yeah, there's definitely plenty of photogenic material outside of our strict railway boundaries, or fuzzier personal neighbourhood boundaries.
The goal of the JT group is to get photos of the neighbourhood, and this can include pics from photographers who don't live here. I think a reasonable goal for a different group would be the opposite: to showcase the work of local photographers, on a wide variety of subjects. There are certainly many excellent local photographers.
Actually, you can find some other excellent non-JT stuff by looking through the JT photo group and then browsing the contributors' other photo albums.
But still, I'd like to keep the JT group filled with JT-specific photos, with maybe a little bit of fuzziness around the edges.
Great idea - really like this
I think it really should stay as a JT site, despite the fact that we all might have interesting photos from "the outside". Love this idea, and looking forward to contributing!
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