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May 26, 2005

Flickr surfing...
Posted by Jess in Day to Day

Everyone has heard of Flickr, the photo-sharing site, and yet I always thought of it more as a photo storage site than anything. Until now.

Matt introduced me to a new fun pastime for us, surfing Flickr photos. If you go to "Everyone's Photos" on Flickr, it displays the most recently updated pictures. These change so quickly, hitting Refresh on your browser will cause a new block of pictures to appear.

Well, would you know, we had SO much fun one night with our respective laptops on the couch hitting refresh, laughing, and looking at photostreams.

Each picture tells a story. There are some wonderful photographers out there. There are some amateurs. There are mothers diligently capturing all 300 frames of their child's first birthday. There are pictures of cityscapes from views one might normally never get to see. There are rare birds, and babies with their eyes crossed. Among an album filled with the contents of the inside of someone's trunk, there is a captivating picture of a toothless man. Never have I thought a streetlight could be so beautiful if the light is just right. The most amazing photos I have seen are things that I never in a million years would have even thought to take a photo of.

And that's just from hitting 'refresh' once.

The Flickr user names are just as personality-filled as the photos themselves, from Uncleboatshoes to Fast Eddie.

Here's one you can all enjoy perusing, those of bEEfEatEr's. I've gotten his permission to share with you all what had me and Matt captivated for hours.

Happy Flickr surfing. Who thought normalcy could be so out of this world?

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Thanks for posting!

Posted by: ambien at June 12, 2005 03:27 PM

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