Thing #5: Flickr

This assignment had me going to delve into the world of Flickr. I must admit that I'm still a hold over from the days of Photobucket; although, I think I may just make the migration sooner than later. (After all, change happens; why fight it?)

So, I'm putting together a presentation I plan on making later this summer on user evaluation, and am in need of boxing images. It actually took me a little while to find a picture I really like, but I think once I start playing with Flickr more I would get better results from my searches.



First, I tried searching the term "boxing." When I did, the images brought back to me looked like this.

O.K., try again with "boxing gloves." First couple of pages were mainly pictures like this one.

I re-thought... what I really want is a picture of a "boxer," so I found pages and pages of this little guy.

Finally, I thought that "boxing ring" would be specific enough to get some images of boxers without bringing up anthropomorphic UPS boxes, cars, underpants, or dogs. While there were some images like this one, I also found a picture I rather liked. It is by claudiogennari and is titled "My son David into the ring for a boxing."

I need to figure out how Flickr's search engine works better for me to have faster and better searches.