Heads up! There are quite a few meetups happening this weekend. If you are near any of these places head on over to shoot some photos and meet other Flickr members IRL (In Real Life). * New York, NY * Atlanta, GA * Los Angeles, CA * Oakland, CA * St. Louis, MO * [...]

Two weeks ago we brought you the new hi-res images in the lightbox and today we’re releasing those amazing hi-res images directly on the main photo page. Hi-res images on the photo page let you share all the detail side by side with the context of your photos. Location, time, camera, title, description, tags and [...]

While nowadays, redscale film can be bought premade, it is based on a simple technique: In essence, photographic film ...

  Photos from TGKW, kenny mccartney, kktp_, and Lazyousuf.

    The UFO-like monument on the Buzludzha peak in Bulgaria, built by the countries former communist regime to commemorate the events in 1891 when the socialists assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement, was opened in 1981, but abandoned after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Today, the trespassing [...]

      Introduced in 2008, the Kodak Professional Ektar 100 film is said to be "the finest-grain color negative film with high saturation and vivid colors available on the market". We’ll leave it to you to decide on the attributes of the film, but the photos added to the Kodak Ektar 100 group and [...]

Today, we have another great story to tell. Eweliyi, Flickr member since 2008, just recently came back from a trip to meet her Flickr friends across the globe, and she was eager to tell us about it. This is Eweliyi’s story: What I love the most about Flickr are the people that I meet here. [...]

  Koinobori, meaning "carp streamer" in Japanese, are carp-shaped wind socks traditionally flown in Japan to celebrate Tango no Sekku (端午の節句?), a traditional calendrical event which is now designated a national holiday; Children’s Day. These wind socks are made by drawing carp patterns on paper, cloth or other nonwoven fabric. They are then allowed to [...]

               Today we are celebrating Star Wars Day. Join the celebration by taking a Star Wars related photo and tagging it with starwarsday. If you are looking for some inspiration, enjoy some more thematic photos in our tag clusters and our search results. Photos from laurenmarek, JD Hancock, billythecoker, Stox – Ideas Playground, ShadowOfMyFormerSelf, [...]

When it comes to viewing photos, bigger is so much better. Today’s high resolution screens let you explore the details of an image better than ever That’s why we’re very excited to introduce two new photo sizes, 2048 and 1600 pixels. They are already available in the lightbox and will be rolled out to the [...]

Today, we want to introduce you to Carolyn Lagattuta, who lives in Santa Cruz and is known as catklein on Flickr. She contacted us a few weeks ago to tell us her Flickr story which she describes as a true journey of inspiration. Before joining Flickr in 2006, Carolyn had a nagging feeling that something [...]

Making sure you receive proper attribution when your photos on Flickr are shared elsewhere on the web is very important to us. Given the sheer volume of fantastic photography that you upload to Flickr on a daily basis, it’s no surprise that photos on Flickr are amongst the most popular content pinned to Pinterest. Today, [...]