Every year for one week, Nevada’s Black Rock Desert becomes an artistic oasis of self-expression for Burning Man. Roughly 68,000 attendees gathered among an eclectic mix of interactive installations and temporary structures for this year’s 27th annual festival, which ended yesterday. The Cargo Cult art theme guided the construction of creative pieces within the concept of “homegrown technology.” Here’s a small selection of snapshots capturing the experience, and see more photos in the Burning Man 2013 gallery.
Did you attend this event? Share your photos from the festival in the Burning Man groups and tag your shots with burningman2013.
Many scenes of breathtaking destinations — including the Alps in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, and the silhouetted high-rises in Macau — garnered interest in August from photographers capturing wide views of city skylines and wondrous landscapes.
The Flickr team (minus our diligently working support team – thanks guys!) is out of the office today for Labor Day. Whether you’re at Burning Man, traveling, at DragonCon, out camping at Lake Tahoe or elsewhere, or just relaxing, if you are celebrating this holiday in the U.S., we hope you are having a fabulous day off!
Yesterday, we asked you to share your first photos taken with the new Flickr cam with us. We already want to share some of the great submissions with you.
Please continue tagging your photos taken with the new cam #NewFlickrCam and add them to the Flickr for iPhone group where you can also let us know if you have specific feedback. We’ll cover another selection after the weekend.
We are happy to welcome the The Schlesinger Library to The Commons. The Schlesinger Library is part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. It documents the history of women in America, and its holdings are strongest in women’s rights and feminism; health and sexuality; and culinary history.
Help make the photographs you enjoy more discoverable by adding tags and leaving comments. Your contributions and knowledge make these photos even richer. You can check out the whole selection in their sets, and we hope you enjoy this collection as much as we do.
Our last Flickr Friday theme was #PaperPlanes, and here is the weekly selection of your submissions.
We knew you had it in you when we announced the theme last Friday, and as you can see, we had a true paper plane festival this week with all kinds of designs. The models were ranging from beautifully folded, highly aerodynamic ones to diligently cut out examples sporting a very sophisticated appearance — among them was even an X-Wing. It is a wonderful collection and you should check out all of the photos in the Flickr Friday group.
With the new theme we want you to show us the moments when #DreamsCanComeTrue. There are many events in life that are nearly unbelievable and very precious because we never expected them to happen in the first place, or we only imagined them in our wildest fantasies. Show us what you are dreaming of or which of your dreams came true, and we’ll present a selection of your photography right here next Friday. If you find some favorites in the pool, we’d also love to see your favorites in a gallery — check out the thread for more details.
Many of our devices have been on a cycle of convergence. For example, since the introduction of the smartphone, we’ve been relying on them more and more for all our photo needs. In particular, our smartphone cameras are evolving so quickly, that the photo quality itself is getting close to parity with our digital cameras.
At Flickr, we see a growing number of photos coming from your smartphones – especially the iPhone 5, which is currently the most popular camera on Flickr. So today, we’re proud to announce a completely new photo taking experience in our Flickr App that takes full advantage of the depth of capabilities that Apple’s iPhone camera has to offer and more.
In our view, taking a photo should be an enhancement of what you’re experiencing and seeing through your device. We’ve come up with a camera that gives you full control over how your final photo looks, even before you snap the shot. Our goal is to make it effortless for you to have a beautiful result, with simple but powerful features.
Live Customizable Filters & Editing
You spoke, we listened. A lot of Flickr’s new camera features are what you’ve been asking for. We focused on making live inline filters and editing capabilities. Much of what we’ve been able to add is due to our recent addition of KitCam and the GhostBird Software team who created it.
Live Filters let you see how your photo looks while you take it. Swiping through live filters, you can choose composition grids, focus lock and exposure points to better set up your shot. Even our preview tiles let you see what your shot looks like live.
All of our filters are also customizable after you’ve taken the photo. You don’t have to leave the camera and lose focus on your perfectly melting ice cream shot. In addition to our magic wand, we’re adding all the advanced tools so you can enhance, crop, sharpen, balance color, use Levels, add vignette and more – for free. You now have a complete photo studio in your hands.
We’re looking forward to seeing everything that you see through your lens, and maybe some recreations of photos you’ve already shared, enhanced with some of these new features.
Download the latest version of our app and start shooting with your new Flickr camera. Tag your shots with #NewFlickrCam, and post them on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. We will post a selection of our favorite shots on the Flickr Blog soon!
We hope that our Flickr App will become your favorite camera. If you have any questions or feedback, or encounter any bugs, please let us know in the Flickr for iPhone group.
We noticed many distant and close captures of shadowy subjects from our community lately, and here’s a sample of beautifully outlined figures and objects in backlit scenery around the globe.
The inferno, known as the Rim Fire and labeled the biggest wildland fire in the history of California, continues to devour acres of nationally protected landscapes and threatens thousands of structures. More than 200 square miles have already been destroyed in and around one of America’s most treasured national parks, Yosemite. Groves of giant sequoias and a reservoir that serves as a water supply for millions of people are threatened by the blaze, while 3,800 firefighters battle the growing disaster. With claims of 20% containment and firefighting costs exceeding $20 million so far, the massive fire has been spreading since it was first reported in August 17.
We are proud to welcome the DEXTRA Photo Collection from Norway as our latest member of The Commons. The collection was assembled by the photographer Arne Knudsen. who started Knudsen’s Photo Center in 1958 and has throughout his career been an avid collector of photography and photographic objects. Owened by the DNB Savings Foundation and deposited at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, the collection consists of about 1,8 million photos and around 6,000 photo-technical artifacts.
Besides a wide range of vernacular photography, primarily from the 20th century, it consists of extensive photographic material from Knudsen’s own business in Knudsens Fotosenter from the period between 1958 and 2005. Other notable photographers are Teigens Fotoatelier, specializing in architectural photography, Paul A. Røstad, concentrating on social landscapes and agricultural images, and Anders Beer Wilse, who is considered one of the most important Norwegian photographers of all time.
The focus is squarely on commercial photography within the fields of architectural, industrial, fashion, theatre, product and portraiture. As a result the collection is a rich source not only to the cultural history of the 20th century, but also to understanding the industry and business of photography itself.
Help make the photographs you enjoy more discoverable by adding tags and leaving comments. Your contributions and knowledge make these photos even richer. You can check out the whole selection in their sets, and we hope you enjoy this collection as much as we do.
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