"You spent the year with new gear, with old gear, with hand-me-down gear. You spent the year shooting, snapping, cropping, and sharpening. You spent the year capturing people, places, abstracts, and snapshots. You spent the year learning, avoiding, obsessing, driving your friends and family coo-coo crazy. Surely, you got something to show for it! Show us your one favorite photo that you took in 2006." Emdot

If you’d like to share your best of 2006, you can do so in this Flickr Central discussion.

Photos from emdot, missmarple79, striatic, ambientlight, catherine buca and sx70manipulator.

Photos from gwen, ljcybergal, longristra and annabelletexter.
See more photos tagged with "elvis" or peruse the elvis clusters.

As previously announced on the site, today’s upgrade day at the primary data center. We expect about two hours of downtime (sorry this is a long one!) but to come back faster, better and stronger than ever.

We went offline at approximately 10:00pm (2000h, UTC-8: view in your timezone) and will be back around 12am.

Update @ 11:08pm: back a little earlier than planned. Good!

10 sets for your viewing pleasure discovered while surfing favourites:

• santarctica 2006,  sandwichgirl
• Crap cams, BosseB
• House of Cards, *estrella
• Fauna Humana/ Human Fauna, Margarita Dittborn Valle
• characters, Orrin
• (Mostly) My Little People, Janusfinder
• dollparts, mymsie
• TtV, traskblueribbon
• Evokes Emotion,  judę
• My Favs, Damned Thing

Photos from val ayres and portal23.

Photo from Modest and Jill, featured by Striatic in this Flickr Central topic.

Photos from endbradley, Mattie & Den, arkworld, LeFoxy, thelenders, notcatherinezeta, and stationary. See more photos tagged with "Christmas morning." 

As usual, there’s a whole world of Flickring going on. Pinoy Flickr ‘addicts’ hold exhibit in Manila while, on the other side of the globe, Paul Stamatiou, (Georgia Tech student, former Yahoo! intern and ace blogger) writes up an excellent and comprehensive post entitled Gift Ideas for the Flickr Fanatic.

Finally Time Magazine has a great piece on Flickr member Ali Kurshid, as part of their "Person of the Year: You" issue (on stands now).

… Khurshid is more than willing to wax romantic about the unifying, globalizing greatness of the Flickr community. "I love the world coming together in one place and just sharing all that’s in it," he says. "I feel like I get to see the world like it really, truly is. Not by stereotyping a people or a country."

Even more than blogs or video-sharing sites, Flickr has the power to forge international bonds because it works in an entirely nonverbal medium.

We couldn’t have said better ourselves! You can find Ali’s photos on Flickr along with those of Lavannya Goradia who also gets quoted in the article. 

On this day in 1773 "the Sons of Liberty, three groups of 50 Boston residents each organized by Samuel Adams, burst from the Old South Meeting House and headed toward Griffin’s Wharf, dressed as Mohawks in hopes to disguise their true identities to avoid reprimand and punishment. Three ships — the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver — were loaded with hundreds of crates of tea." — Wikipedia

Photo from blamethedog.
See more photos tagged with "Boston + Tea + Party."

Photos from jenkardux. See more photos in our Chanukah and Hannukah clusters.