SorbyRock's photostream  

Enthusiastic observer - particularly landscape, rocks, nature, detail.

Comments on photographs and images are appreciated.

Most images are unmodified - apart from minor photoshop processing of digital camera images to make exposure adjustments.
The few that are greatly modified for particular effects are mostly self evident, and are also documented in the description.

Images are mostly taken using a Nikon SLR D50 digital camera or a Fuji digital snap happy, though I still sometimes use a Nikon film SLR where there is a large range of light intensity.
With digital images, the original raw, TIF or JPEG files have been reduced in size and converted to jpeg for posting on flickr.

All images are posted at a reduced resolution from the originals by reducing the image size, and many have been cropped, often to a square.format.

Some images are taken with a flat bed scanner at moderate to high resolution - these produce high resolution images with a very large file size that can be readily cropped.
Thank you for taking the time to view the photos.

All images are copyright, all rights reserved.
If you wish to use any image, please email me via flickrmail.

If you wish to incorporate images into a favorite mosaic on flickr, there is no need to contact me, providing that there is a link to the relevant flickr image in the description. For blogged images, please provide a link to the relevant flickr webpage.

Sheffield, England.


Quick Links to Sets: normal and detailed view.
Note that the images below link to the photo, not the set.



Patterns and textures: set and detailed view
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181277451/
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181277451/detail/



Details: set and detailed view
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181307720/
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181307720/detail/



Nature: set and detailed view
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181269455/
www.flickr.com/photos/sorby/sets/72157594181269455/detail/

Lichen photos

flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=sorbyrock+lichen...

SorbyRock DNA
bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php?username=91347191@N00

Flickriver Sorbyrock www.flickriver.com/photos/sorby/popular-interesting/



Naturesquare group images:


Dendrites on Ice:
www.flickriver.com/search/ice+dendrite



Explore. Highest no 2 back in 2006 on 1 March
www.flickriver.com/explore/interesting/2006/03/01/



LINKS AND RECORDS

I have an interest in information technology, including indexing of reference libraries and search technology for the internet, tagging etc.
The records below are part of what could be considered as a 'sandbox' and are primarily there for my use.
The links tmay or may not be useful in the longer term.

For my records:
On the 18 May 2006, 48 photos had received 2579 views.
On the 23 May 2006, 50 photos had received 2775 views.
On 1st June 2006 50 photos had been viewed 3008 times.
By the 5 June 2006 , this was 3100 views
22 June 2006 : 3552 views.
6 July 2006: 4012 views.
25 August 2006:5505 views.
20061001 7034 views

On 27 April 2006 the clustermaps counter that is set to record visits to one or more images.was added.
The Clustermaps counter documents the number of visitors to any one or more photo pages at flickr/photos/sorby since April 27 2006:
The flickr visits total includes total visits to all photo images. It gives an indication of activity, though favorited and commented images may be counted twice.

By the 5 June 2006 63 visits to this URL
By the 22 June 2006, 237 visits to this URL.
6 July 2006 318 visits to this URL

Clustermaps visits to this URL since 12 June 2006:
20060921 530 visits
20061001 563 visits
20061107 673 visits total 8298 views
20070430 857 visits total 14974 views
20070529 889 visits, total 16431 views, 20 in Explore
20070701 941 visits, total 17947 views, 20 in Explore
20071019 1,033 visits. total views 20,468, 23 in Explore. Running total of visits to the above URL since 12 Jun 2006: 1,033. Total since archive, i.e. 18 Jun 2007 - present: 106 displayed on current clustermap. .

Some photos that Explore has and does find more interesting are listed on the link below.
These photos differ somewhat from the listing in Scout,.
It does not suffer from the 'bouncy bouncy' interestingness or 'recently dropped out' to reappear again problems that were at times a feature during 2006.
flickr.com/search/?q=sorbyrock&s=int

The top 30 are also available on black:
interestingby.isaias.com.mx/pm.php?id=91347191@N00

The more recent photos uploaded can be seen here, in single column format:
www.flickr.com/search/?q=sorbyrock&s=rec







Scout: flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/scout.php

Flickr DNA
bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php

Interesting by on black
interestingby.isaias.com.mx/


Favorite finder:
bighugelabs.com/flickr/favorites.php

mosaic maker flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/mosaic.php

Thumbnail search using Flickr leech: www.houserdesign.com/flickr/

Spell with flickr
metaatem.net/words/

Flickr inspector:

netomer.de/flickrtools/inspector/?nsid=91347191@N00

netomer.de/flickrtools/inspector/

slideshow in large www.tinou.com/flickrslideshow.jsp?

Clickable icons for your contacts
www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne?

geotagging tools
labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_geocode_bookmarklet/

worldinpictures.org/ geotagged images close to any location

Other flickr tools:
www.flickrbits.com/

Reference for this page:
flickr.com/people/91347191@N00/

Screen name change from sorby_rock to SorbyRock on 20070517, so that it is consistent with tags.

Clustermaps counter for CO2 image



(from 20071028 linked from the Yahoo for Good: Environment website.




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