Photos from TripTrip Photography, Kristal, and flp_.
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With over 14 million images in their collection, the Nationaal Archief is the largest public archive in the Netherlands, and we’re thrilled to have them join The Commons on Flickr today.

Their archivists have selected about 400 photos from a range of topics for you to see, including the Arbeids inspectie (Labour Inspectorate Collection), a number of fascinating studies of working conditions in various companies during the early years of the 20th century…

…Documentary of the 1928 Olympische Spelen (Olympic Games), held in Amsterdam…

…And some incredible imagery of life in Tweede Wereldoorlog (Second World War)…

You might also notice that some of the collection is of individual pages from albums, complete with notations in Dutch. It would be interesting to see if there are any transcribers in our midst… it’s been great to see multilingual contributions from you on most all of the other Commons members’ content!

Welkom!

Thanks to everyone that contributed photos to the Freedom 2008 Group. Photos from the group will be on display at the Dray Walk Gallery (part of The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London) between October 29th and November 9th.

If you’re in the London on October 29th, be sure to come pop along to the preview evening and say hi! More details on Upcoming.

A selection of photos from the Freedom 2008 group pool by Diana Lucas Leavengood, toastyoneuk, bitrot, and DJ Bass.

Photos from greeblemonkey, mariangrimes, and ArTeTeTrA [ArTe e TeTrA SoLo a TrAtTi]. View more photos in our leaf clusters.

With a hop from Warsaw to London, we meet our next interviewee, Brett Walker.

Selected by Bart Pogoda in our last interview, Brett’s fans have the following to say about his photography:

“…I can not find the words that would do him justice.It s just not possible to sum up in a few lines the impact his images have.I only hope that he will never get tired of showing us.He is needed,like a medicine. Thank you.” — semimortal79

“You make Flickr a real place, with you pure raw beauty, your portraits with their whole life written in the black and white, the real world you bring into this virtual one…” — ndrgrnd

“the Devil lives in England … and he’s got the nerve to database his souls on Flickr! Hats off, to the Dark Lord.” — page thirteen

1. Brett, we know it’s a tough question, but if you had to pick just one camera to shoot with from now until the end of time, what would that be?

Brett: Canon 5D mk2+24mm 1.2.

2. A (possibly) tough question… Tell us your favourite photos on Flickr, and why you like them. First, a favourite from your photostream?

Brett: It just all fell in to place, I had low expectations of the shot. She now sits for me regularly.

And from another Flickr member?

Brett: It’s perfect. I was with him when he shot this in the street. I missed every frame — John Gladdy nailed it in one.

3. What’s one tip that you would share with someone who’s just picking up a camera?

Brett: Set to automatic and shoot till your finger bleeds.

4. When we interview peeps for employment here at Team Flickr, we always ask: “Kittens, babies, sunsets or flowers? Pick one.”

Brett: Kittens every time.

5. Which Flickr member should we ask these 5 questions of next?

Brett: Susan Mac!

Heather: Thanks, Brett. We’ll be back soon when we ask 5 Questions of Susan Mac.

Photos from Brett Walker, John Gladdy, and sMacshot.

Previously, 5 Questions for Kevin Meredith, Steph Goralnick, Olivia Wright, Eric Lafforgue, Maciej Dakowicz, Swiatek Wojtkowiak, and Bart Pogoda.

Photos from pinkyhonor. View more in her “it’s all coming back to me now” set.

Photos from akulis2. View his entire pinhole bicycle set.

August 8th, 2008 was a most auspicious day, and members from around the Flickrverse shared a slice of their life in Flickr 888. Those photographs are now available as postcards published by our friends at MOO.

While we have our favourites (featured above), we wanted to make the end result more inclusive and MOO has built a system that will allow you to create your own Flickr 888 Postcard Pack. Select up to 20 images from those contributed to the group pool to create your own unique pack.

From now until the end of October, you can get 30% off the price of a postcard pack — just enter the following code into the discount field at checkout: mooflickr888.

Our favourite Flickr 888 photos from mpix123, youngdoo, *lemonade*, VAM! Photography, Éole, lomokev, James_at_Slack, davebushe, Venvierra, and *momster.

We’ve rolled out the new Flickr Home Page to all of our members. Why the change? The layout, design and new features now surfaces much more of the action going on around you.

There’s a screencast (featured below) that will provide an introduction to your new Home Page and we’ve updated our FAQs.

Team Flickr would like to thank all of the members who participated in our sneak preview by reporting bugs and/or providing valuable feedback as we fine tuned our design and implementation. You guys rock!

If you encounter bugs/issues or have feedback, please head over to the Help Forum.

Our sister blog, code.flickr has launched their own string of 5 Questions:

“This is our version, asking questions of those that develop, hack and fiddle with Flickr in new and interesting ways. Of course we couldn’t start with anyone else but KrazyDad (aka Jim Bumgardner).

Jim founded the Flickr Hacks group back in the day, a great place to hang out and ask question if you want to learn how to bend Flickr to your will. In 2006 he also coauthored the Flickr Hacks book for O’Reilly and happily for us he hasn’t stopped tinkering with Flickr yet.

So, without any further ado, 5 Questions for Jim Bumgardner.”

Photos from krazydad / jbum.