Memorial days past
Photos in The Commons by The Library of Congress.
Library of Congress debuts iconic Great Depression photos
The Library of Congress has created a remarkable set, FSA/OWI Favorites, which includes the “Migrant Mother,” by Dorothea Lange, the original film negative of which […]
Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0
“We are releasing all of the Flickr shapefiles as a single download, available for use under the Creative Commons Zero waiver. That’s fancy-talk for ‘public […]
The National Library of Wales is our 26th Commons partner!
Please join us in welcoming the National Library of Wales, established in 1907, as the 26th Flickr Commons partner! The National Library, which exists to […]
living with clowns
Photos from * cate *. View the complete “living with clowns” set.
Isolated Building Studies
“The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs […]
The final frontier
“In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. This image […]
12 Flickr Superstars
Anytime anybody comes up with something that’s either “the best of” or a list that labels our members as “superstars”, a little part of me […]
5 Questions for velco
We certainly didn’t mean to take a three month haitus between installments of our 5 Questions. (Is it really May? Really?! How did that happen?) […]
Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!
Photos from smooshmasterflex, Helen Beresford, and ninjas_rule.View more photos in our Squirrel Monkey clusters.
Swing-lens panoramas
In a swing-lens camera, the lens actually rotates from side to side when you click the shutter. Exposing the film behind it as it moves. […]
Flickr goes to Tempelhof
Hey, Berlin! Please join Kay in touring the now defunct Tempelhof airport tomorrow (Tuesday). The full details are available on Upcoming. Photos from TheManWhoWasn’tThere, […]