Flickr ID: LauraSpurlock
Name of Gallery: Assignment # 6 - Photo Folio - Ancient Manuscripts and Texts
It was difficult to decide on a theme for this photo folio. I knew I wanted to follow a theme that included photos of ancient locations and artifacts, but felt that I should further narrow this broad category. I feel connected to ancient texts, documents, and manuscripts, because I have spent so much time studying ancient and modern languages, religion, and history. I also spend a great deal of my free time reading about this topic or watching PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel or National Geographic. I feel particularly connected to the historical Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern areas after spending three years in seminary studying ancient Greece, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Egypt, among other locations, so when I decided to search for photos of ancient documents, I was particularly drawn to photos of texts in these parts of the world. I was interested in finding photos that showed where these ancient languages and their usages intersected with religion and ceremony, so several of the photos that I included contained texts found in churches and tombs, as well as texts used for ritualistic purposes.
I used the following search terms without Boolean Operators:
Religion
Ancient civilization
Ancient civilization writing
Ancient writing
Ancient documents
Ancient texts
Ancient manuscripts
I found useful results from most of these search terms and actually had to create three galleries because I originally found so many photos. I then narrowed the three galleries down to 18 pictures, the limit for one gallery on Flickr. I also further limited my search to only return content under the creative commons license, so the fact that I was able to find so many results was impressive. Aside from the limitation of the number of photos one can include in a gallery, I was impressed with Flickr. I have often used it in the past for projects and find that it is fast and effective, and its option to only return results under a creative commons license is very useful. The site is also very easy to use and navigate in my opinion, and it offers useful tools for locating information and searching such as interactive features, tagging, and tag clouds.
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