Need to get your Flickr fix on the go? Then go mobile with a great number of applications that are growing in the App Garden. There are apps for specific mobile devices such as the iPhone and the Android, but some of your favorite Flickr apps have been optimized for mobile browsers, too. Here’s a small sample of what’s out there:

For the Android, there’s Around Me, which displays the most interesting Flickr photos of places nearby your current location, giving you the walking or driving directions to reach each place. If you’re looking instead just to upload or browse your contact’s photos, try the Flickr Droid, instead.

FlickIt, an iPhone and iPod Touch application, is a sleek way to upload to Flickr, including posting to groups or Twitter! Or try MobileFotos for uploading and browsing groups, contacts, and favorites. For geo-fun, use Darkslide, which lets you see what’s nearby and notable.

Check out Indicommons, a great way to peruse the new uploads to The Commons on Flickr.

No matter where you are, you can browse through the various [Commons'] institutions’ collections, or search the Commons for items of interest. If you have a Flickr account, you can also help enrich the Commons by adding tags and comments to the various Commons items directly from the application. – David Wilkinson

Are you a mobile developer using the Flickr API and don’t see your app in the App Garden? Get started here. Make sure your apps have relevant tags on their pages so that folks searching for something can easily find it.

Look here to find more great apps for your mobile device.

Applications by dopiaza, andrea.lagala, mike.mosher, mike_bernardo_2000, avon11, and fraserspeirs.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople

Been a long time gone…

Old Constantinople’s still has Turkish delight

On a moonlight night – Jimmy Kennedy (Four Lads).

Photochroms from the Library of Congress (you’ll have to supply your own tunes!).

Can you help the Library of Congress identify these fabulous Commons photochroms they’ve uploaded to their Mystery Pictures set?

If you think you know where the above photochroms were taken, please click through and leave comments and notes on the images with the information! Check out some of the sleuthing in progress:

pinkiesblues says, “I believe this is the Opera in Paris built by Napoleon III. “

epicharmus says, “This [photo on left] is another view of the Old Port (“Vieux-Port”) of Marseille in France, similar to the shot here [photo on right]. The Église Notre-Dame-des-Accoules is visible to the left. “

Photos from the Libary of Congress.

…when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there

The children were nestled all snug in their beds

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads…

Team Flickr wishes you and yours all the very best of the season.

Photos from Canonshot Mole, Selby-Caitlyn, e³°°°, MatthwJ, Squig O, Renee Rendler-Kaplan, Tifty, Jonathan Mc, corypina, and catekustanczi.

Flickr members have been submitting some really fantastic photos to the group pool dedicated to 2009s best shots they’ve taken. We love them! Keep them coming along- we will be featuring more of them on the Flickr Blog. However, Samm Bennett started a contrarian thread for people to submit what they feel is their worst shot of the year, and it’s been really amusing to see the contributions. Some of the descriptions of what went wrong are hilarious- we’ve all been there, right? Enjoy! :)

Photos from there is hope., Jonathan del Bosque, DJ-Dwayne, wokka, winkydo, vesleserena, kightp and kmam.

At FlickrHQ, we’re addicted to Noticings, a game from Tom Taylor and Tom Armitage. It’s a game you play with your photos, Flickr account, tags and geotags. Noticings is a game of noticing things around you. Things that you stumble across when out and about, that are interesting or out of the ordinary. You earn different points for the types of things you notice, like the first noticing in a neighborhood or a typo on a sign.

Here’s a view of the Financial District noticings in San Francisco. Hmmmm, looks like Kevin’s been busy down here!

He’s noticing things around him by photographing them, uploading the photos to Flickr, tagging them with the tag noticings and geo-tagging the location. Then, once a day every day at 15:00 GMT, the previous day’s noticings are pulled into their site and points are awarded. yay! The dashboard tallies the noticings and even has a nifty timer to let you know when the next import happens.

Be sure to check all the rules when you sign up by authorizing your Flickr account. People aren’t noticings (I had to be reminded of that); sometimes different things are highlighted for more points (red was big for a while). Don’t be a spoilsport and just notice up your ‘explored’ images (boo!), it’s not so much about self-promotion as it is playing a fun game with other Flickr folks by noticing the small and large things in the world around you.

What makes the game fun is everyone’s different take on what a noticing is – be creative! Have fun! Hey, there is also an unofficial group on Flickr, too. yay!

Find more games to play in the App Garden.

Noticings is an application from TomT.

Below is an image and video from { tcb }. He’s posting light paintings along with ‘making of’ videos. If you want to see how light paintings are made, check out his set.

If you’d like to see more, check out the Light Painting – The Real Deal group.

Photos and video from Dennis Calvert, jannepaint, maria flash, BURИBLUE, BlaisOne, and { tcb }.

Photos from zokuga, Pete Lodato, M.V. Jantzen, Hans (lumilux.org), and jubileel_insaneone. View more photos with tagged with “snowball fight“.

A selection of photos from Your Best Shot 2009.

Photos from Samm Bennett, ..Peter…, Eric Parks, Grateful Clem, Robert Douglas, lynette1208, Steven Scott Taylor, and little ms lex.

A selection of photos from Your Best Shot 2009.

Photos from c2prods, red white and you, Adam Ames, the_lawson42, HoubieBoubie, sharkbait, and mxl.