Andy Rankin

I recently mentioned grabbing photos from Flickr to use in blog posts. That got me thinking about photos in general (hey, you’re getting insight to how primitive my thought process is) - something that I’ve always had a lot of interest in and never seem to have enough time to pursue. Maybe someday I’ll post some photos I’ve taken (don’t hold your breath - I’ve thought about blogging my own photos for years and I never get to it).

Most of the photos I take these days are snapshots of the kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love those photos but sometimes I wish I had a half day here or there to photograph other things. I do get to sneak in something semi-creative from time to time. Even though I don’t have much time these days to take my own photos I’m still a fan of photos so from time to time I’d jump on a photo site of some sort or another and just check out some pictures. Of course I’d get sucked in and time would pass and suddenly I’d be late for something so I had to find a better way.

My current approach is to have a few photo feeds in my reader and I try to satisfy my photo quota that way. It seems to be working fine now - although I might swap out some feeds for new ones at some point.

So the point of this post was to mention one of the feeds I have and why I like it. The feed is from Shorpy - The 100 Year Old Photo Blog - and I love it. The photos aren’t always 100 years old - but a lot of them are really old and almost all of them are really interesting.