A selection of photos from Your Best Shot 2009. Contribute your own!

Photos from AJ_UK, formalfallacy @ Dublin (Victor), Justin Timperio, djniks, skiplecariboo, and Há-Zé.

A selection of black and white photos from Your Best Shot 2009. Contribute your own!

Photos from ,evelafontaine, Monochrome Chicken, but_those_are, Christine Lebrasseur, Derek Bremner, and clairebelles.

A selection of photos from the Your Best Shot 2009 group pool featuring our feline overlords (hi, Dan!). To view more photos or share your own best shot, check out Your Best Shot 2009.

Photos from jm2c, migowa, psycoded, Mr. Embrey, Novanto, miss ota, JumpyJames, and Noelas.

A great way to find new favorites on Flickr is to see what your friends are favoriting!

Developer Scott Mongrain is growing a fun application in the App Garden called Lurvely. It fetches Flickr photos you’ve added as favorites, brings you photo recommendations from your friends that they’ve favorited, and allows you to favorite new images you’ve noticed there. It’s a great way to explore parts of Flickr you’ve not yet seen and a cool way to see what your contacts enjoy, too.

Here’s an example of how it works. Last night, I saw Kevin’s photograph of the full moon over the Bay Bridge and added it to my faves. Using Lurvely, I can see what other images have been favorited by the people who also faved his photo. I can also see what he’s added to his favorites recently.

Why not check out the other fun apps in the App Garden that allow you to take a walk down the path of favorites and see where your trail of discovery leads you.

Application by scottmon.

December 1st is World AIDs Day and this year, AIDSgov wants to know how you’re facing AIDs. If you’d like to participate, download this sign (PDF), take a photo of yourself with it, and then share it in Facing AIDS for World AIDS Day. The full details are available in the group.

Photos from Flipped Out, dawessner and alexfille.
View more photos in the Facing AIDS for World AIDS Day group pool.

It’s become somewhat of a tradition within the Flickrverse to look back over the last year and share a “best shot”. We hope that you’ll review the last year and share a photo in Your Best Shot 2009.

It can be the photo or video that most expresses your growth as a photographer, captures that special moment, or just plain rocks your socks off. It’s as simple as that.

We’ll be featuring a few of our favourites over the coming weeks here on FlickrBlog. Check out these two discussion topics within Flickr Central for a look back at 2007 and 2008.

Illustration by Timoni Grone.

Photos from Peter Tsai Photography, Gooner-Licious, pwils10, and gchic.

A few of the delicious looking Thanksgiving dinner plates uploaded today. Let’s eat!

Photos from J. Bedhead, karma1221, mlephotos, william couch, Roadsidepictures, b.campbell65, RG of CS-in a dark place, Iohnathaneric, jerdlngr, JulieFrick, akki14, _rockinfree, aaronisnotcool, equusignis, w9jim, BillRhodesPhoto, Marissa Babin, jetgirlart, sameold2008, sharkbayte, k a y l a m a e, marytsao, pbenmay, LDHNY, and catchinglights.

And there’s more!

Photos from Ezra S F, wwfloyd, beegeye, Metius, StripeyAnne, and sweetgoddess71.

Photochrom prints are produced from black and white negatives through a colorization process and were popular in the latter 19th through early 20th centuries. The Library of Congress has a wonderful collection, and have shared more in some recent uploads with a lovely mix of urban and pastoral views of Holland, included in the Photochrom Travel Views set.