Here's what I have so far; libraries (what a surprise): Captiva and Sanibel in Florida, Manotick and Vernon in Ottawa.
And here's a photo from Douglas Sprott showing a detail of the front of the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library, available through a Creative Commons license:
I have seen online photo accounts before, my first one being a commercial site called PBase.com. When I was working at a biodiversity museum in Kemptville, I met Bev Wigney, who started digital nature photography over nine years ago. Most photographers in that category go for the big, cute and cuddly. Not Bev. Although her subjects were varied, she specialized in photographing insects and arachnids up close (macrophotography). This may not appeal to anyone at first, but in seeing her collection I learned through Bev's photographs and nature blog more about the beauty of our six- and eight-legged neighbours in Eastern Ontario than from most professional biologists. Although mostly self-educated in identifying the "creepy-crawlies"(with help from subscribers to NatureList, a mailing list for naturalists and citizen scientists around Eastern Ontario), Bev's photographs and videos have appeared in at least one photographic exhibition, ten publications to date and over a dozen websites dealing with biology and natural history. Currently, she's travelling across North America and covering her journey in her new blog Journey to the centre. Bev's work is one of the best (if the best) local (Ottawa) examples of online nature photo hosting evolving to more professional aspect.
Returning to the original subject...
I found the exercise a lot of fun (linking the photos to maps was a cool function), although I admit there's quite a learning curve in uploading, managing, linking and whatevering your photos. I won't ever get into Picassa, Google's answer to Flickr. Egads!
-- Greg @ the library
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