What’s New?
Things have been busy since we last met for a recap! Last month we awarded our 2025 Your Best Shot contest winners. Then, we celebrated Flickr’s 22nd birthday, and honored Black History Month with a series of features spotlighting the incredible Black creators in our community. If you missed anything along the way, sit back — this is your February ICYMI recap.
22 Years of Flickr
Another year around the sun and we’re so happy to celebrate it with the best photography community around. Flickr turned 22 and we’re grateful to everyone who made those 22 years possible. We thought, what better way to celebrate our big day than to share some interesting stats about what Flickr members love. From cameras, to tags, to favorite Flickr groups, we pulled together some fun facts to share. Celebrate our birthday by the numbers on the Flickr blog.
Your Best Shot 2025 Winners!
If you love a photo contest as much as we do but missed our Your Best Shot Winners announcement livestream, it’s not too late to see the exciting ending to this year’s Your Best Shot Contest! Our winners came from all over the world but shared a love for photography and an eye for stunning composition and storytelling.
If you’d like to see the full YouTube announcement, hosted by Flickr and SmugMug Global Brand Manager, Alastair Jolly, then give the livestream recording a view. He walks through the judging process and some interesting critiques about why these photos took home this year’s Your Best Shot top spots. If you just want to cut to the chase and see the end results, check out the Flickr blog YBS announcement blog and give some applause (or faves) to the winners.
Celebrating Black Photographers on Flickr
February is Black History Month and we’re taking this time to amplify the work of the Black photographers on Flickr with photo features throughout the month along with an Explore Takeover that just went live on February 19th. Last week’s Explore Takeover featured 500 photos that highlighted some of the amazing contributions of Black photographers on Flickr. If you missed it, it’s not too late to give it a scroll and find some faves.
And don’t miss the work of Arlishia Yvonne and J Langston Boyd, two of the photographers featured this month in our Celebrating Black Stories series.
Celebrating Black Stories with Arlishia Yvonne
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Celebrating Black Stories with J Langston Boyd
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Flickr Photo Challenge – Weather
While we are introducing you to inspiring photographers, it isn’t lost on us that you all are pretty inspiring and creative yourself, which is why we’d love for you to join this month’s photo challenge. We know there are plenty of different takes on this theme, and for better or worse, we’re looking for pictures of weather for our February Flickr Photo Challenge. Sunny days, rain filled skies, blizzards that accompany an unexpected snow day. Bring your weather photos over to the challenge!
And while you’re thinking about which approach to weather you want to take, enjoy last month’s Blue Hour challenge winner by Doug aka Douguerreotype. Fading warm light as the sun sets behind the shadowy landscape is met with a dreamy blue scene that we couldn’t skip past. Congrats, Doug!
For more Blue Hour highlights visit our January Challenge gallery!
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!