Due to the recent changes to Flickr by Yahoo I am in the process of  moving away from Flickr and  setting up  a photostream at Ipernity. I'm moving even though  Flickr is still  the most commonly used photo sharing site and it  is  more dynamic now.     

Flickr  has been re-designed for  iPhoneography. Yahoo's  culture of design is one of people developing brands and imposing it on people, rather than building a culture of design that is rational, emotional and meaningful. The thing I hate most at the moment is when you click out of your stream of contacts' photos you are set back down at the beginning. This completely defeats any social aspect and flings everyone into the everychanging present...no time to comment or reflect just stay at the latest photo.

 The new design  is for the iphone crowd, but it is  monetization  that is  killing the photo-sharing platform. It's time to move on. 

It appears that there has been a mass migration of the old school Flickr  film photographers to Ipernity.   I have followed them because of my desire to belong to this kind of photographic community.  Ipernity has a design that respects the photos much more than Flickr,  but it is a very quiet place. Maybe that will change with the  recent influx. Film is not dead, but  it will only get more expensive in the future. 

I hope the recent influx of photographers to Ipernity  revitalizes the site,   as the  work by  those community of photographers who take their photography seriously   is very important to me. Studying other people's work is how I learn to take better photographs.  I no longer read photography books to do this,  as I once did.