Landscape, Nature And Travel Photography

Earlier today Flickr announced on their blog they’ve kicked off Phase 2 of their effort to build the Flickr Collection on Getty Images by sending out invitations to various Flickr photographers. (See Building the Flickr Collection on Getty Images) I was one of the many photographers who received an invitation and decided to check it [...]

Today Flickr announced a limited partnership with Getty to create a Flickr Stock Collection.  In short you need to be discovered by Getty photo editors and additional details are forthcoming.
The great folks at Getty Images and Flickr are joining forces to create a collection of royalty free, rights ready and rights managed photographs. This announcement [...]

There have been many stories over the past few years about copyright infringement on Flickr. To date most have been about individuals maliciously downloading the work of others to resell it as their own or companies using photographs commercially violating either the licensing restrictions of the photo or ignoring the need for a model release. [...]

Photoshelter on Tuesday March 4th released a Flickr Importer to enable Flickr members to migrate their photographs to their service. The import function is hardly as noteworthy as the export function of the tool which allows Photoshelter members to export watermarked images to Flickr. In an odd twist reported on March 5th Flickr disabled the [...]

Join me at the Media Web Meet Up III: The Producers where I’ll be a panelist with fellow photographer Lane Hartwell, legal expert Jason Schultz from the Electronic FrontierFoundation (EFF) and announced last night Heather Champ from Flickr.
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Subject: The Producers – people creating content for [...]

This weekend I got to take a peek at the Photophlow site that is now in a limited beta and experience the Flickr community like never before. At the moment the site is growing through an invitation only process not unlike Googles Gmail back in the day. What is unique about Photophlow is the truly [...]

Yesterday Dave Winer announced the release of FlickerFan. FlickrFan (see FlickrFan.org for product details) enables Flickr users with a MacMini connected to their TV to display photography from their Flickr Contacts. This automatic feed is actually very cool and the type of use is a really nice way of displaying some great photography in a [...]

Self-admittedly I am a statistics junky. If I employ a service, I like to monitor the traffic and trends. I’ve done this since the day I launched my web site and I’ve done it for my Digital Railroad, Photoshelter, and PodBean (for my podcast) accounts as well. I’ve found some tools for Flickr but they’ve [...]