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Featured birds: East African Crane, Philomachus pugnax, Black-backed Kingfisher, Common Buzzard, Hoopoe, Blue Tit, and Mandarin Duck.

See and share photos in a bird group.

Photos from 10000 wishes, Ger Bosma, kaybsteve, PETEJLB, zahoor-salmi, Blue Melanistic, and E_Rick1502.

“Established in 1997, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi is Australia’s largest free-to-the-public sculpture exhibition with over 100 sculptures by artists from across the world transforming Sydney’s spectacular 2km Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk into a temporary sculpture park for all to enjoy from late October to mid November each year.” – Sculpture by the Sea – Official Group

See more photos of the sculptures on display this year in the official group.

Photos from mark silva, missgeok, smr-t, exito2099, and Keith McInnes Photography.

Performers doing what they do best in recent concerts worldwide.

See more music-performance photos in these groups: Music Photography, Concert Photography, **LIVE in CONCERT**, or search for related groups.

Photos from oscarinn, Yow Wray, awieme1, crazybobbles, hazyskyline, Adam Svasta, Kenny Maths, Tofs Stefano, AnotherSaru, pellephoto, jhwill, Something For Kate, laurent.breillat, Adam Haranghy, and Jaime Fernández.

These analog and digital portraits have been taken by you during the weekend. Make use of our Advanced Search to discover many more beautiful shots of people.

Photos from Ivan Velinov, Flowtopia, rogvon, MaFen, Roobo69, Devesh Uba, and pauline louise.

In the first three photos, October waves dramatically bash Phare du Four off the coast of Brittany, France, and a pair of U.S. lighthouses, the Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse and St. Joseph North Pier Lights. The French lighthouse is already famous for routinely receiving enormous lashings from the Celtic Sea. For the latter two residing in Lake Michigan, superstorm Sandy added extra churn to the waters for an exceptionally thrilling experience for photographers.

Occasionally matching the tops of lighthouse towers, wave crashes can reach up to 90 feet in height. Near the port of Sardinero, Spain, waves from last December appear to completely consume the Lighthouse of Mouro Island and the entire islet it barely holds on to.

Explore and share photos in a lighthouse group.

Photos from Brestitude, wrightTTL, The New No. 2, zeedy2, THEGHOST1, Tunsilk, and MANUELup.

For this Halloween season, we explored where jack-o’-lanterns go beyond your typical porch-decoration and found all sorts of creations for charity fundraisers and flat-out fun for spectators. Thousands of expert carvers — including “World Class Pumpkin Carver” Farmer Mike who shows off his handiwork at the annual Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival — displayed ambitious art projects, and there’s no shortage of events exhibiting pumpkin-inspired artistry at a massive scale. Here are the few featured here: Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular in Roger Williams Park Zoo, The Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze of the Hudson Valley, Pumpkin Inferno in Morrisburg, Canada, and Keene Pumpkin Festival in New Hampshire.

Photos from Frank C. Grace, TOTORORO.RORO, AquaOwl, Muddyrabbit, RachelWolff72, mergenhagan, joshbousel, FrankieCorrado, and Chrisser.

The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, putting more than 7.3 million homes and businesses in the dark and causing at least 16 deaths. – Yahoo! News

Our thoughts and best wishes go out to all of you affected by the hurricane – stay safe!

Photos from scott witt, navid j, thelexiphane, j-riviere, jl_auch, falconn67, PM Breakfast, Lisa Bettany {Mostly Lisa}, and mattlindén. Discover more photos taken during Hurricane Sandy.

“Thousands of raucous San Francisco Giants fans celebrated the climax of Orange October on the streets of San Francisco on Sunday, Oct. 28, as their team swept the Detroit Tigers in the World Series to bring Major League Baseball’s championship trophy to the Bay Area for the second time in three years.” – Yahoo! News

Photos from James Larieau, < Mike >, mike dillon, mrperry, wambamashleyanne, Shawn Clover, and novas0x2a.

“Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm described by forecasters as one of the largest to ever hit the United States, is making its way toward the population-dense East Coast. Evacuations have been ordered from Maryland to Maine, where storm surges and high winds are expected to wipe out power to millions.” – The Lookout on Yahoo! News

For those of you on the East Coast: Tag your photos with “HurricaneSandy” to share the latest status of this storm from your perspective.

See more storm photos in the Hurricane Sandy gallery.

Photos from NASA Goddard Photo and Video, MTAPhotos, Scoboco, and The National Guard.

We’re coming to Austin, Texas, for an epic Flickr Meetup, along with the wonderful local photographers Lotus Carroll and Juan Gonzalez. Meet other Flickr members, take photos — no matter if you’re analog or digital, SLR or mobile — and chat with folks that work at Flickr.

We would love to see you and your camera here: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 10:00 AM Austin Convention Center, Austin TX

Please RSVP on our Flickr Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/flickr/Austin-TX/810462/

Hope to see you in Austin next week or at any of the many other Flickr Meetups happening around the globe.

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