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Here we are then. All the Fray Bentos pre-digital photographs together in one place at the same time. The photos in the cardboard box on the right, with the green label, are those which have so far been posted to Flickr. So, as you see, I could probably keep going on Flickr for such time as I have left in this vale of tears but, of course, one tends to use one's more interesting "A-list" material early on.
The collection is in complete disarray and badly needs to be put back into some sort of order, probably chronological. Then I might stand a chance of finding any individual photo in less than a month. The internet is responsible. My first internet connection (1999) was by way of NTL's internet television service, at 3p a minute. My bills were typically around ?120 monthly. Fortunately, from the point of view of my solvency, unmetered access came in after about a year. In another year I was made redundant and bought my first computer with part of the payoff money.
"Photo-sharing" was one of the things I first got "into" ...once I had got tired of the trolls on usenet. The trouble was that the photos became horribly disorganised and pulled-about, and I could never be bothered with the tedious business of putting them back in their place once I had used them. After seven years or so of this the collection is in the condition you see above, with many not even in boxes or envelopes.

I am me.

My entire navarzo3 photostream was deleted (or quarantined to make it appear deleted) on the morning of 22 March 2011. I don't know if I will bother re-creating all of the sets, etc. here anymore as this is the second time that my entire image collection has been wiped off the face of the planet without any notification or warning.

As a result of this Flickr has stolen my Pro subscription payment (again!) and although that's a tiny amount in terms of Yahoo's entire income stream, it's illegal under Australian law to withhold money when a service that has been paid for up-front in full is withdrawn or cancelled.

sigh. And Flickr is otherwise a very excellent image sharing service.

I guess Yahoo/Flickr/Channel7 would prefer to drive my Pro account subscription elsewhere (ie. to a photo sharing website not owner by Yahoo or Channel 7)... or onto my own co-located server in a data centre which Yahoo/Flickr/Channel7 would have absolutely no control over.

Craig.