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My Thoughts on Mat Honan’s Gizmodo Article on How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Flickr Product Chief Markus Spiering Shoots an Old Skool Polaroid Camera at Last Month’s Mission District Photowalk Quote from Mat Honan’s Gizmodo article on Flickr: “Flickr wasn’t a startup anymore,” explains the engineer, “people didn’t really want to work that hard to turn the entire product around. Even if they had, Flickr [was] very techie...

Bigger is Better, Flickr Photos Get Larger With New “Liquid” Photo Page

Old Flickr Photo Page New Flickr Photo Page on a 17″ MacBook Pro New Flickr Photo Page on a 27″ Apple Cinema Display Quick, go to one of your flickr photo pages, right now. You like that bigger photo? Awesome right? Flickr seems to be cranking out one cool thing after another this year and...

A Million Voices — Festival of Colors, Spanish Fork, UT

Festival of Colors, 2012

Robbie Petersen — Festival of Colors, Spanish Fork, UT

Festival of Colors, 2012

American Dreamer — St. Louis, MO

Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO

The Ground Beneath Your Feet — Chicago, IL

Cloud Gate (aka the bean), Millenium Park

Bigger Church — St. Louis, MO

Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Blind Love — Death Valley, CA

Flickr Integrates More Deeply With Pinterest Providing Attribution and Links Back to Flickr Photos

Pinterest has been one of the most popular social sharing sites of the past year. It’s growth has been explosive. Last week Pinterest said that Monday and Tuesday were their highest traffic days ever. Last month Experian said that Pinterest was now the third most popular social network behind Facebook and Twitter. Photographer reaction to...

The Square Crop is My Favorite Crop and More Thoughts on Photo Layout and Design

I know you’re not supposed to have a favorite crop, but the square crop is my favorite. I’m not sure if anybody’s noticed or not, but I think in the past few days Facebook has added a few little redesign elements into our timeline views. Most notably it seems like the “your contacts” that they...

Photo Talk Plus, Episode 19, with Special Guest Jeffrey Sullivan

Thanks to all who participated last night in this wonderful interview of landscape photographer Jeffrey Sullivan. Thanks especially to our show sponsors SmugMug and blurb.

BAMM! Flickr Now Allows Photo Sizes up to 50MB

Good news for Flickr users today. Along with the announcement of a new and improved uploader they’ve also announced that they are increasing the size limits on photos. Pro account users can now upload photos up to 50MB (previously 20MB limit) in size and free accounts can now upload photos up to 30MB (previously 15MB...