Introducing our Latest Flickr iPhone App

Beginning today, you can capture, share and discover more with our updated Flickr app for iPhone and iPod touch, which just happens to be the most popular camera with you, our users.

Capture moments.

We know that some of your best photo moments happen on the fly, so we’ve made it easier to get the perfect shot when inspiration hits. Once you get the shot, there’s a built-in editor to quickly correct, crop, or enhance it with one of the new high res filters.

Share with the world.

When you’re in the mood to share, you can do so simultaneously via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or email. We’ve worked with our partners to ensure that your photos look gorgeous no matter where they are viewed, on or off Flickr.

The new Flickr iPhone App

Just like our Flickr site, you can upload unlimited photos from your camera roll, add your photos to groups and sets, add a venue from Foursquare and tag people. Best of all, the quality of the original photo is always preserved so you can continue to enjoy your photos for years to come.

Discover.

At Flickr, photos are part of our DNA so we put your photos first, starting with the photo view. Want to see more pixels? Tilt your phone to the side and you’ll see the photo in full screen. As you pinch to zoom in, the photo will stay sharp and crisp. When you find something you like, you can comment on and favorite photos with a single tap.

The new Flickr iPhone App

We know that some of you love details, so we didn’t overlook them. You can always see where and how a photo was taken, which sets and groups it belongs to, and who is tagged.

In our new Contacts view, we’ve made it easy to discover photos from your friends or favorite photographers. It’s fast and easy to scroll through your contacts and feel like you were there for your friend’s recent road trip or see the world through the lenses of the photographers you follow.

The new Flickr iPhone App

With all the content in Flickr Groups, you can stay up-to-date with your community. View the photos, connect with people and upload your own images to the groups you love.

Finally, don’t forget to check out the new Explore tab to see the most interesting photos uploaded every day. You can see the photos that have been captured around you, whether you are in the heart of Paris or in your home town.

We’re really excited about all of these changes and we hope you are too! If you haven’t already, head over to the App Store now and get the new Flickr app for iPhone and iPod touch. As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Please join our official Flickr iPhone App Group to see photos from other people using the app and to give us your feedback. Also, be sure to check out our other releases today and to read through some of the tech details of mobile notifications in our engineering blog if that’s your thing.

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Get More From Flickr: Navigate and Explore

We’ve been hard at work making Flickr the best possible experience for photography lovers everywhere. Today we’re excited to share that we have a new, simplified navigation bar and a new Explore page.

Our new nav bar was designed to make browsing Flickr faster and easier so you can quickly get to the photos you love. While we removed many of the old blue links, we made sure that you’re still able to access most of your favorite features right from the nav bar. We think this makes for a simpler and cleaner experience. While some of you might not see the navigation bar already, don’t worry. It will roll out to everyone over the next few days.

Flickr's new Global Navigation and Explore

In addition to the navigation bar, we also created a new Explore page. We know how much you love the justified view of photos that we’ve incorporated into the Contacts, Favorites and Group Pool pages so far. Now we’re bringing that same awesome experience to a new ‘Explore’ landing page. The new layout seamlessly lets you view some of the most stunning and beautiful images uploaded to Flickr. Check out the most interesting photos added in the last 24 hours or go back in time to see amazing photos from the past. Over 8 billion photos have been uploaded to Flickr to date. So start exploring and discovering new photos and photographers!

We’re always eager to hear what you think, so please give us your feedback in the Help forum. If you encounter any bugs, we’d love to hear about that too.

And for you iPhone lovers, be sure to check out our updated Flickr app for iPhone we announced today.

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“Breezy Point Will Be Back”: Everyday Items that Survived the Blaze

As the year’s end approaches, the holiday season is already upon us. It’s a time for family and friends, and for giving thanks to those people and things around us that perhaps go unnoticed or unappreciated in any other season. It’s also a time for reflection and remembrance.

This is the first episode of The Weekly Flickr, a new series by Yahoo! Studios that will each week showcase the work of one or many members within the Flickr community. Today, we go behind the lens with Stephen Nessen, radio reporter and photographer for WNYC New York Public Radio.

He tells us the story behind the photos he took while on assignment just days after Hurricane Sandy demolished Breezy Point in Rockaway, Queens. For most of us, these are ordinary things that we see in our day-to-day lives and sometimes pass by without giving too much credence. But to the people in Breezy, these items are now symbols for future hope.



The Breezy Point Blaze

The waterfront community of Breezy Point was one of the areas hit hardest by Sandy after a fire broke out and burned more than 100 homes to the ground.

“It was a massive fire. Hundreds of firefighters from all over the area came out to fight this blaze but the fact was the whole area was already flooded, so firefighters could not get close enough to extinguish the fire,” Nessen details in the accompanying interview. “What was even more tragic about it is that many firefighters actually have homes there. So these firefighters, many of whom fought on 9/11 extinguished the World Trade Center, they watched their houses go up in flames and stood by and there was nothing they could do about it.”

Nessen visited the beachfront Queens neighborhood as soon as it was safe enough for people to finally return home. That day turned out to be Wednesday, October 31 — two days after the storm hit.

“It looked like a war zone,” Nessen says. “There was sort of an eery silence and then you’d hear someone crying…. And the smell, a mix of sea salt and gas and just burning smoldering trash.”

But as he continued his journey through the stricken community what he found, and captured in his photos, were images of survival, resilience and a community bound for rebirth.

When the Ordinary Become Extraordinary

He found and photographed items that somehow survived the massive fire: three religious statues, handmade wooden signs, a grandmother’s corning ware dish and a holiday plate given as an anniversary gift.

Religious statue-3

“As I was walking around this blackened rubble I came across this set of three religious statues and it was quite remarkable because all around it were burned out buildings that were still smoldering with smoke. Yet these religious statues are almost perfectly intact,” Nessen explains. “For the people that live in the area seeing a religious statue survive through the fire definitely is an inspiration and definitely gives them a hope about rebuilding in the future.”

Fallen woodent sign at Breezy Point, Far Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy

The handmade signs he photographed were made by a man who has lived in Breezy for more than three decades with his wife Annette.

“I met the man who built the signs, Walter Connolly. They are made of wood. Everything in this area burned to the ground but somehow these road signs didn’t burn.”

The couple’s home did not burn to the ground during the hurricane, but was left unlivable due to water damage.

Today, Walter and Annette tell Nessen they are “still looking for a decent apartment in Bay Ridge…. As far as progress on our home we have begun to gut out the house this week as we had to wait for insurance adjusters to give the okay.”

To date, most of the debris remains at all the destroy homes in the Breezy point community.

Recovered items from firefighters home

During his visit to Breezy, Nessen also met firefighter Kieran Burke, whose home was completely destroyed in the fire.

“He was a firefighter on 9/11,” says Nessen. “This is a guy who has seen tragedy, who has seen destruction.”

As Nessen watched Kieran sift through the rubble of what used to be his home, the firefighter finds a remnant that signals hope.

“A Christmas plate that his wife made on their second wedding anniversary,” Nessen says. “This little little plate, brought him so much joy and it was like great this survived, we are going to be okay.”

Burke is currently living in an apartment in Brooklyn, according to Nessen.

Breezy’s Coming Back: Hope for the Future

“This is loss, this is love, this is all the stuff stories are made of,” Nessen says. “I am absolutely convinced that Breezy point will be back. They are coming back, they are already out there, they are already cleaning up. This is a hard working community sort of blue collar workers who know how to get the job done.”

Stephen Nessen’s photostream can be viewed here.

Want to be featured on The Weekly Flickr? We are looking for your photos that amaze, delight, and inspire. Share your photos with us here on Flickr. Tweet us at #theweeklyflickr.

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Your Best Shot 2012: Playing with Fire

Catching Fire

Fascination with fire [Explored #30]

Spark the fire

Fire snakes

Photos from AmyJanelle, Mr:Mac, Murray Hall, and JaredBrill, all submitted recently to Your Best Shot 2012.

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Weekend Samplr

leaving thorns behind

in blue   রাজা ও অন্যান্য!

DSC_0630~2  After the Rain..

  Together Apart

Telemark

Photos from laura zalenga, slight clutter, meghla_akashe_pori_:), michaeliao27, b_juhasz, Michael Salmela, and Meyer Felix, all uploaded over the weekend.

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Your Best Shot 2012: Through the Looking Glass

upside down

refraction

2012_Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk

Amapolas magicas * "Entre amapolas"

Just remember folks: try not to spend too much time lens gazing and prism peering, or you might end up like this kid.

Photos from MINA▼, rampx, Cecilia Temperli, and jacilluch, all submitted recently to Your Best Shot 2012.

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Your Best Shot 2012: Umbrella Love

Silhouette

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Photowalk in Antwerp

Jiujiang Lu, Shanghai

These rain resistant shots were discovered by TPorter2006, whose umbrella gallery is just one of many she’s assembled of stunning photos from our Your Best Shot 2012 group.

Photos from Andrey Baydak, Ute Kluge, Giu Behringer, and alex robertson.

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Your Best Shot 2012: Backlit Silhouettes

Sunrise @ Bàu Trắng, Phan Thiết

Evening racing Fans - Goodwood Revival   177-Myanmar-Amarapur-UBein-

Mystery Prague

Untitled   Heaven Sent

Morning Bromo

Photos from Khánh Hmoong, jamesst1968, Shridhar Sethuram, chalabala.cz, .ali scott, Boy_Wonder, and AndrewPrawiro, all submitted recently to Your Best Shot 2012.

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Water droplets: Macro photos of refraction spheres

IMG_5641.CR2-2012

Morning Dew *Explore*

In the rain

Kniphotia or "Red Hot Pokers" flower refraction in water drops

Early morning laser show

Ornamental drops cling to assorted surfaces for a dazzling display.

Share your macro photos like these in the Water Drops group.

Photos from Ernst Vikne, West Leigh, Wroot Down, Muzby1801, and High rez.

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Santa Dash 2012 in Liverpool

Liverpool Santa Dash 2012

Santa Dash 2012

Looks like we've been spotted

LIVERPOOL SANTA DASH

Liverpool Santa Dash 2012

The 8th annual Santa Dash attracted around 8,500 participants this year in Liverpool, U.K., on December 2. Festive runners jogged a 5K run in Christmas-red and Hanukkah-blue Santa outfits in attempt to beat the Guinness World Record of most Santas in one place.

Photos from Eric The Fish (2012), Les Sands, wellsie82, ONETERRY. AKA TERRY KEARNEY, and Terry Bouch.

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