Gets you thinking about your photos; Nice to read back; Design is fantastic
Disadvantages:
None
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
The sheer amount of websites on offer to display your photography skills (or lack of) is staggering. Pictures of absolutely anything can be found on Flickr (where I tend to put my shots) from shots of cats wearing penguin costumes to penguins not wearing cat costumes. What this does is create an absolutely vast catalogue that, after about 15 minutes, I get bored with.
But then I found Blipfoto.
A word of caution, this way obsession lies. The little USP of this site is that you can only upload one picture a day. Register on the site (quick, easy, free), pick your best, or the one that best sums up your day, stick it on the site and (if you want) write a blurb.
Some people use it as a daily journal (though you don't have to upload a picture every day, just when you want to), some to vent (*sticks hand in the air*), there are even people charting the growth of their kids with pictures taken in the same place on a specific day of the month.
Having been started in Edinburgh there are a lot of members from there, but it really is truly international. There's a Scandinavian guy who uploads pictures from the middle of the North Sea, Kiwis by the score making everyone else jealous with greenery and mountains, and simply everything in between.
It gets gloriously addictive. I'd started shooting anything and everything after getting my dSLR earlier in the year, but Blipfoto, unlike things like Flickr, gets you looking for a 'good' shot every day. It can be something to explain how I'm feeling, or just looking for something artistic and fancy.
Once the shot is online people can view it, comment and rate it. And a nice little 'community' has sprung up. You start to recognise styles when you see the thumbnails of the latest shots on the homepage (you can also arrange them by the latest uploaded, those taken by your 'favourites', the highest rated and just your own shots). It can be interesting just flicking through someone's diary, as well as looking back through your own to see what you were doing on a particular day.
I tend to use it to rant a bit about whatever is on my mind. It's cathartic, and that in itself becomes addictive and I think each day about what I want to write as much as what I want to shoot. It all feels so much more involving than Flickr. I still use that for any and every shot - but it's more of a depository. Blipfoto is a visual diary to share and remember.
