As usual, that's me going out on a limb just to get a shot. To boot, i never even got the branches pushed aside enough, or had wide-enough a lens, or found good enough an angle for that spectacular view: no matter how raging the currents, chocolate-ty brown water is chocolate-ty brown water. Saturday, however, was a nice spring day.

Zooomr, an incredibly advanced, feature-rich, photo sharing community much like http://Flickr.com, offers free Pro accounts to bloggers who sign up and link back to Zooomr. For one year, they allow unlimited monthly full-resolution image uploading, storage, viewing, linking, and downloading. They promise to allow full access to the images after the first year, even if those Pro accounts do not renew, what an offer!

On the fore, http://Zooomr.com uses only an alternative login, Open ID, an emerging way to reuse your identity across multiple sites. Since developers at LiveJournal invented Open ID, naturally users of http://LiveJournal.com, http://Vox.com, and other Six Apart platforms can log into Zooomr and create an account without creating another identity and maintaining yet another password. Open ID lets users on these and all other enabled servers login into Zooomr and not only post images but also comment on others. Put simply, unlike Flickr, which now requires users create and use a Yahoo identity, Zooomr admits folks manywhere without yet another password. Quite a boon for replying, isn't this how social media should work!

LiveJournal keepers could follow the instructions at Zooomr, but rather than use MyOpenID, simply log into Zooomr and create your account! Bypassing MyOpenID frees you from its Terms of Service, a lengthy and vague license for a brave new tangled legal world with an identity service for a fourth party. Instead, Zooomr asks only a brief set of rules. Recently AOL (via http://OpenID.aol.com) and Yahoo (http://IDproxy.net) have begun providing Open ID support too, for all Instant Messenger screennames and Yahoo identities.