The Bookshelf, The Parlor, The Young Texas Reader, the Youtube Channel, and The Monthly

The Texas Bookshelf blog is for single, specific books' reviews and author interviews at http://texasbookshelf.blogspot.com/ . The Texas Parlor ranges more broadly. The Young Texas Reader http://youngtexasreader.blogspot.com/ focuses on the youngest through teenagers. Texas Blog Notes http://texasblognotes.blogspot.com surveys blogs of historical and literary interest. I've started a Will's Texana Youtube collecting channel at http://www.youtube.com/willstexana . Texana Monthly: Reviews, News & Electric Observtions, issued free by email directly to desiring subscribers, may contain some of either blog, but also material not in the blogs; from the summer of 2008, the Monthly may be likely to have fewer snippets, more longer works that do not fit the shorter blog format - but still, all focus on Texas information sources. Your recommendations and participation is invited. Find Will in Houston or at willstexana {at} yahoodotcom

Monday, June 29, 2009

Beautiful Photography - Best of Texas

the Best of Texas group icon   Ok.  I've been keeping a secret.  One method I use to freshen my mind (also called an open barn by some), is to open an RSS feed I have for a special Flickr account.  Flickr, as you probably already know, is a major photographic storage site, a really big buncha pics.  Well, some are good, others are great.  One of the sites is called BEST OF TEXAS where a group of 500 excellent photographers contribute, or pool, their images.  Membership is restricted.  I wanted to see their images regularly so I opened a free Flickr account and started an RSS feed.  Now, when I'm lethargic from a week of 100 degree temps or a month of snow drifts, I just open my RSS feed list and click the "Best of Texas."  The images are not for your casual use; most of the photographers are professional and expect a bit of renumeration for their work.  But just seeing the images re-charges my batteries.  See more at
 

1 comments:

Mattexian said...

That is a cool collection of pics, a lot better I think than any printed and bound set of photos, because of the limitations of real paper publishing.