How distressing…

February 18, 2008 | Category: Photographers

ANOTHER one of my favorite photographers – who went by the Flickr name Reiner1 – has either left (or has been booted out of) the site. If anyone happens to know if he found a new home, drop me a note. This is a link to the google-cache of his old profile on Flickr.

While only a percentage of Reiner’s work was nude (he did mostly portraiture and fashion), he’s German, so my guess is that he grew frustrated with the German Safe-Search issue and deleted his account. I can’t say I blame him for leaving.

My pro-account on Flickr is expiring sometime in the middle of April 08 and I’m debating between junking the whole account or just letting it lapse to the lesser free account and keeping a 100 or so photos up and changing them every once in a while… just to direct people to this site.

Of course, there’s another reason (apart from driving traffic) to maintain a presence on Flickr. Even though Flickr says this won’t happen, I’d rather not have someone else grab my name on Flickr at some point in the future…  if there’s a policy change… say under new ownership by a certain company at Redmond, WA that shall remain nameless and doesn’t take no for an answer.

2 Comments

  1. minnmars
    on February 18th, 2008
    1

    Ya – that’s sad. I know he has an ipernity account, but it doesn’t seem to get updated as often. Seems like alot of people are getting fed up with the flickr censorship that the Yahoo overlords imposed on them.

    http://www.ipernity.com/home/reiner1

  2. machine
    on February 18th, 2008
    2

    Thanks! :)

    I have an account on ipernity as well… but I don’t update it either, preferring to focus on my own site.

    It’s a shame… he was ridiculously prolific.