Travel photography captures life’s many adventures, and this month we’re celebrating it in our June edition of Through the Lens. Flickr remains a vibrant space for travel photographers to connect and inspire, get to know a couple of them and learn about their tips and tricks today!
Most plants only need water, soil, and light to thrive, but not all of them stick to the standard necessities of living. Hundreds of plant species have developed ways to add an extra source of nutrients when the usual sources are meager. Popularized by Charles Darwin’s “Insectivorous Plants” book that was…
Over 30 species make up the cetacean group called dolphins, and many fans of these playful and agile creatures have shared terrific photos of them seen frolicking around the world. From a stampede near the San Juan Islands to a pink dolphin saying hello in the Amazon River, the friendly and intelligent marine mammals are…
We’re happy to announce that SALT, a cultural institution from Turkey, is joining The Commons today. SALT is an independent not-for-profit cultural institution from Turkey that explores critical and timely issues in visual and material culture.
As part of the year-long celebration of Flickr’s 10th birthday, we invited Flickr members around the world to celebrate by hosting photo walks. More than 1200 participants in nearly 70 locations across the globe showed why Flickr is the best online photo community in the world.
At the end of last month, this year’s first partial solar eclipse was spectacularly visible in some parts of Australia. The partially blocked sun appeared in cloudy skyscapes filled with a spectrum of cool and warm tones taken from photographers based in Adelaide, Perth, and Brisbane.
Few possess the distinctive style of CubaGallery, a designer and photographer from New Zealand who routinely wows us with his Flickr photos. CubaGallery presents the world through a saturated, lush prism of cool blues and warm yellows that transforms the mundane into sumptuous visual delicacies.
It’s not every day we come across a talented conceptual photographer whose personal story makes his work even more powerful and compelling. But when we […]
Our last Flickr Friday theme was #CultivatedLandscape. And those are some beautifully cultivated views you showed us. Fields and fields of flowers, stunning […]
First published 75 years ago in 1939, the Depression-era epic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck, chronicles the Dust Bowl […]