Happy New Year!
It’s time to tune in for our first ICYMI of the year. With January flying by, let’s take a moment to catch up on this busy month. Thank you for starting off the new year on Flickr by sharing your photography, your perspectives and your love for community. We’re looking forward to the inspiring, creative ways you’ll all capture the world around you as we move into 2026 together.
Building Together: Flickr’s 2025 Highlights
First, up a recap of our 2025 Flickr accomplishments. Make sure to check out our End of Year wrap up on the Flickr blog! We share some of our big wins from 2025 – for example, the addition of the highly requested upgrade to Creative Commons 4.0! If you want to celebrate our product updates, community milestones and some of the creative moments that defined the year, don’t miss our End of Year recap.
Pinterest Moods
We’ve also been enjoying a new year of sharing. We’ve expanded where we showcase your fabulous photography, and that now includes Pinterest! We’re inviting you to explore our new collection of Flickr Mood Boards on Pinterest, where we’ve created boards celebrating Winter, Film Photography, Your Best Shot beauties, and more.
Visit Flickr on Pinterest and pin some of your favorite photos to help give inspiring Flickr photographers a little extra shout-out. If you love creating boards and saving Flickr photos that inspire you, don’t forget to use our built-in share modal—it comes with its very own “share to Pinterest” button, making it seamless to build boards on Pinterest directly from Flickr.
Meet December Photographer of the Month – Hari K Patibanda
Up next, a moment to celebrate our December Photographer of the Month – Hari K Patibanda. Hari’s photography is regularly applauded and enjoyed by the Flickr community so earning a moment in the Photographer of the Month spotlight is well deserved. Hari captures nature photography with vivid colors, movement and creativity so if you love a bird photo, he is sure to become a top favorite of yours. Visit Hari’s site to give him a follow and then check out his feature Photographer of the Month gallery to see some of the photos that earned him this acknowledgement. Congrats, Hari!
Flickr Photo Challenge – Blue Hour
January seems to be moving at warp speed but there is still some time to enter our monthly photo challenge. The sunrises show up late and the sunsets show up early for many of us right now which means plenty of time to capture those Blue Hour shots which just so happens to be our January photo challenge theme! Join us over in the Flickr Photo Challenge group to share those moody Blue Hour pics today. Remember to TAG your submissions with #FlickrPhotoChallenge and #BlueHour for visibility.
If you need to add a little joy to your life in the meantime, take a scroll through our December Winner and Highlights gallery. Joy was in the air last month during our Flickr Photo Challenge so soak it up!
Visit our December Challenge Highlights gallery!
Your Best Shot Winners Announcement, Coming Soon!
Your Best Shot 2025 brought out some of the best photography of the year and we’re ready to announce the winners. Join us Thursday, January 22nd on YouTube for a Livestream announcement hosted by Alastair Jolly. It kicks off tomorrow at 11am PT. See you there!
That’s a wrap on this recap. Keep an eye on the Flickr blog for updates and more Flickr news as it’s announced. See you next month!
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