How does vision draw someone to a piece of earth? on Flickriver

How does vision draw someone to a piece of earth?

"How does vision, this tyrant of the senses, draw someone to a piece of earth? What do the eyes rest upon -- mind disengaged, heart not -- that combines senses and affection into a homeland? Do the eyes conspire with other senses in a kind of synesthetic faculty; an ability to respond to the colors of place as if they were taste and scent, sound and touch? On walks in my desert home a yellow cottonwood leaf stings my tongue like lemon, the indigo and copper margins of the river in shadow inflict the bruise of a frail wind on my skin. Somehow in the day's prismatic clarity, even in the untrustworthy moonlight, these orgs of blood and nerves understand that light is the language of the desert." --- Ellen Meloy, from The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone and Sky Copyright 2002 by Ellen Meloy Part of the set, Anthropology of Color.

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About Flickriver

Flickriver is an new way to explore and view Flickr photographs.

It's a personal project of Alex Sirota (aka iosart).

Flickriver enhances your photo browsing experience in several ways:

River of photos - the photographs are always displayed as one continuous stream - you can view thousands of photos without ever needing to hit 'next' and waiting for the next page to load! This is also known as "infinite scroll". Check out my most interesting photos for an example
Large images - size really matters when you truly want to appreciate the beauty of photography
Black background - most photographs just look better on black - won't you agree?
User most interesting photos - see other people's photos ordered by interestingness
Most interesting Pool photos - see photos in any Pool ordered by interestingness
Random order view - explore any user's or group's photos in random order
Photos of user's contacts - see recent photos from contacts of any user
Keyboard navigation - you can press j/k to go to next/previous photo. Hitting space also allows quickly jumping to the next photo. v opens the original Flickr page for the currently visible photo

Beyond the features above, Flickriver has many additional Flickr photo views - user recent photos, favorites, sets, user and everyone's photos by tag, everyone's most interesting and recent photos, group and pool photos and more. Also, Flickriver follows the Flickr URL structure as much as possible, so you can easily go back and forth between the two.

Important: Flickriver uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr.

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Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

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To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

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"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder