ext_127718 ([identity profile] mrs-leary.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] merlinlocations2009-12-28 09:45 pm

new Flickr group for Merlin Locations

I have now created a group on Flickr for Merlin Locations. The idea is that you may like to use it as a place to upload and share your own photos of various locations. (Of course you don't have to use it, but it's there as a resource if you'd like to.)

I have uploaded a few images just to get things started - which made me realise I haven't even shared my images from my second trip to Pierrefonds! (How slack am I...? Very!)

I have also included a 'Flickr group' page on the Merlin Locations website which displays thumbnails of some of the most recently uploaded images.

You can find them here:

Everyone is of course very welcome to add their Merlin Locations photos to the group’s pool. The more, the merrier!

guidelines

You will need to have a Flickr account in order to add your photos to the pool. The way it works is that you upload the images to an account, and them add the relevant images to the group.

You can join Flickr for free. (There are limits on how much you can upload with a free account, but that may not matter to you.) If you really don’t want to open a Flickr account (or you have more photos than a free account can handle), contact me either via the comments or a PM, and I’ll arrange for you to have access to the merlinlocations (paid) account.

Your images are no doubt beautiful in their own right, but adding descriptions and tags (and so on) makes the images even more interesting and useful.

If anyone would like to help with the Flickr group as a prince (known in the mundane world as a moderator), you’d be very welcome! Also, if you have any ideas about how better to use this resource, please pipe up. I am not overly wise in the ways of Flickr, and will appreciate any help or advice.

the website

I'm certainly glad I finally got to work on the website. When I was first thinking about creating this community, my friend [livejournal.com profile] the_muppet suggested I start up a website as well, to cater for fans and other interested people who aren't involved on lj. At the time I didn't have a feel for how popular such a site would be, but since I attached a visitor counter to the site on 22 December, we've had 176 visitors! And that's only counting each visitor (um, based on IP address, I assume) once a day. Not to mention the fact that someone actually got in touch with me via the site to let me know about Balinor's cave...

So that's pretty awesome. And I haven't even done anything much by way of promoting the site yet! (It's on my rather long To Do List.)

what would you like to do most...?

Of course if anyone would like to be more involved in the community, the website, or the Flickr page, feel free to contact me. In the meantime, everyone is very welcome to post and upload and share to their heart's content. ♥

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[identity profile] brightedelweiss.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
WOOHOO FOR FLICKR! Great idea! I might join for easy updates, if that's alright?
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[identity profile] brightedelweiss.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm fiddling with the layout for my journal so I was testing stuff out and got the update. It's also a very relaxing time!

Definitely. Are you keeping merlinlocations to locations for the show, or other various locations in myth, or is that getting to be a bit too broad in subject?
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[identity profile] brightedelweiss.livejournal.com 2009-12-29 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Your welcome! The boys going away and doing the Real Merlin and Arthur certainly made it a lot more legitimate for you to add it in!

And as for a particular interest in Arthuriana...I've had a long love of Arthurian legend that stretches back to when I was eight or something and my father gave me The Once and Future King. I love the legends, both in figuring out their origin but also the way they've changed over the ages. I think that change, if anything, is one of my favorite parts about the legend because as much as it gives a new take on the legend it also tells you something about the time within it was written. Either way, I think my love of all things Arthurian shall be life long!

From a locations standpoint, I do love that most of the legends featuring Merlin actually come with a location you can pinpoint on a map. My dad got me Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape a while ago which is a fascinating read (with gorgeous figures and photographs), a few of the locations that the boys went to are in it...but they didn't go to my favorites...alas!



If that reply made little to no sense I completely understand!
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[identity profile] brightedelweiss.livejournal.com 2010-01-01 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I went through a period where I read every Arthurian book I could get my hands on and then crashed because it was an overload. In the middle of Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy of all things! Which is excellent and a wonderful read, and which I went back to and finished, and loved. But now I'm sort of picky about what I read because there's a lot that isn't that great...and I want the good stuff.

It's such a cool thing. Arthurian legend has been around for centuries and to sort of map the changes in it in reflection to the changes in society and the world is equally as fascinating. There's so much to explore for the rest of our lives! What a fortunate thing for all of us!

Do it! It's worth your while, it has some lovely insight, though everything is limited to Wales, as I think all of the other areas would need their own book. He's a smart guy!

Of course. I haven't actually been to Britain (woe is me) as I'm American (and our complete lack of real myth is depressing...which might be one reason for my love of Arthuriana...) When I'm studying abroad next year I will be sure to visit some of my favorite places that I've marked on my map. The mountains for one!

Thank you! I'm very very fond of it!

[identity profile] misseri44.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I joined the group to get image updates if that's okay, i haven't been to any Merlin location so i cannot share any pic with the group

[identity profile] asifidletyou.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay cool!!!

Added a pic! :)

[identity profile] gealach-ros.livejournal.com 2009-12-28 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome idea, I'll have to check flickr and create an account but'd love to share some of my better Pierrefonds pics (I took more than 500 I guess D: ). \0/

[identity profile] gealach-ros.livejournal.com 2009-12-29 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The flickr-account is created, I joined the group and I'll upload my pics asap.

I planned more of these picspams (I have soooo many pics) but somehow other stuff seemed so much more important lately. So I'm really looking forward to preparing one or two other picspams (until now I only posted pics I took outside the castle), now that series 2 is finished and the filming for series 3 hasn't started yet. :D

I love [livejournal.com profile] merlinlocations and your wonderful website! ♥

(AND I LOVE YOUR DUDE ICON AND YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! *bear hug* ♥ )

[identity profile] nenimefish.livejournal.com 2010-01-05 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I've joined the Flickr group :)

Thank you so much for putting this comm together, it's really useful ♥ The whole site thing and making this info easily available to other fans was a brilliant idea :D

[identity profile] nenimefish.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
♥! I'm just glad that other people are finding them useful :D