Launched just 6 months ago in March, The Flickr Collection on Getty Images now boasts an impressive 44,000 photographs from Flickr members around the world.

A selection of photographs from the collection have been curated by the Getty Images team to create ‘The Art of Serendipity’ exhibition, which is now on show at the Getty Images Gallery in the heart of central London.

The exhibition is free and open to the public until October 1st. Check out the Getty Images Gallery website for opening times and directions.

If you can’t make it to the exhibition – don’t worry, the nice people at Getty Images have also set up a virtual exhibition in the form of this group pool where you’ll find many of the images from the exhibition.

Try a search for mountaineering on the Flickr map to see more of the world’s mountains up close and personal.

Photos from KovaZg, Captain Interesting, photo61guy, More Altitude, Thomas_M., Andreas W…, and Xevi V.

Photos by laughtonb, sweenpole2001, photosbygar, klaesi, londondan, and NeUR0NRG. See more in the Viaduc de Millau pool.

Tropical Storm Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, has raged across Luzon in the Philippines and has hit the capital region around Manila hard, displacing people and causing loss of life. The first 6 hours of the storm dumped a reported 34 cm (13.4 in) of rain, which is the usual rainfall for a full month and is causing epic flooding. Here are some tag and text searches to find more.

Photos from TwistedHalo, rembcc, mylesgj and crispyparty.

Photos from Dan Landoni, who is yoohoo, joey kennedy, foramenglow, Josh Helfferich, Reed and Erika, and I am being Nate.

If you’re in Munich for Oktoberfest, please consider joining Kay, Shamir and Fiona for a Flickr Photowalk on October 2nd. The full details are available on Upcoming. Prost!

Photo from Mace2000.

Step back into time to the Algiers of yore with a virtual postcard tour from the The Getty Research Institute in The Commons on Flickr. What’s so cool about these postcards is that they are featured in the Getty’s current exhibition, Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City, but anyone with an internet connection can take the tour on Flickr since it’s in The Commons, maps and all. You can even visit the University that Albert Camus attended!

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. – Albert Camus

Photos from the Getty Research Institute

Right now there is a dust storm in Sydney turning the sky and everything under it red. Above are a few images from Flickr members. You can see more by doing a search for sydney dust and sorting by most recent. (Also, if you are in Sydney and see a giant sandworm, don’t move.)

Photos from Highranger, tomhide, africadunc, asphotos, abbt1947, and Andrew Knott.

Featuring photos from Tom Coates‘ Red Dust gallery.

Photos from Fa.bian, Anna Wolf, TommyOshima, ifotog, Queen of MSP, slight clutter, metrolens and jeanettics.
Original post by Kay Kremerskothen.

See more photos using the low-key lighting technique with a search on Flickr for low-key or in the Low Key group.

Photos from Sator Arepo, Peter*, seanmcgrath and Dalla*.

Original post by Shamir Ramjan.