My instagram features household cats Raven and Taco plus downstairs restaurant cat Maggie. This is Taco.
It lets you post pictures, often with some sort of caption, and see what other people are posting. Unlike Facebook, it doesn’t play fast and loose with what you see, but gives you a stream composed of everyone you’re following.
Instagram features a number of filters as well as some basic editing tools that can be applied to uploaded photos. You can add extra filters with the 100 Cameras in 1 app or if you would like to edit the image extensively, try Pixlr-o-matic (http://pixlr.com/).
Random thrift store objects make great Instagram pictures.
What do I post overall? Here’s a breakdown of the last 100 Instagram photos on my stream. Only five categories (event, books, and writing process photos) might be considered promotional; you’ll note those pictures occur roughly one in five times; even there, none of them directly sell a book, just mention it, and many are focused on other people and/or their work.
- things that amused or delighted me: 17
- food I’ve cooked: 12
- the cats: 10
- miscellaneous travel photos: 7
- miscellaneous household photos: 7
- miscellaneous event photos: 6
- books: 5
- my writing process: 5
- birds: 4
- flowers: 3
- photos from the cat calendar Aunt Nona gave us for Christmas with sundry amusing handwritten additions: 3
- refrigerator poems: 3
- restaurant food: 3
- sunsets: 3
- clouds: 2
- dioramas constructed of household objects: 2
- my shoes: 2
- rainbows: 2
- the foam on top of my latte, hashtagged #seattle: 2
- photos of friends/family: 2
- other people at events: 1
- selfies with people at events: 1
- selfies: 1
- things that creeped me out: 1
- holiday collage: 1
