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illustration of a reddish seahorse

9. Increasing Access to Fragile Materials

A man laying on a beac with his head in his hands, shown looking slightly downward on the top of his head

8. Meeting the photographers

men at work building a lighthouse in the open ocean

7. Who Are Those People? Or pets? Or things?

A woman stands near a rock with an american flag waving overhead.

6. The Historical Boundaries of Washington D.C.

a man in a military uniform and a bushy mustache holds a piegon in his hand

5. Decorated War Pigeons

Streamlined mobile home which looks like a very curvy school bus with window awnings on the side and a racing stripe, on a Brisbane suburban street

4. Homegrown Outback Exploration

two people carrying very large baskets on their head walking along a beach

3. The Longest Kayak Journey in the World

hand drawn illustration of a spaceship

2. The UK’s UFO Desk

Three women sitting on Fionn Mac Cumhaill's (Finn Mac Cool) Wishing Chair at the Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim. They're selling tourist trinkets and books containing views of the locality. The woman on the left is barefoot.

1. Classic Photo, Modern Rock

White woman lies on a bed, wearing glasses designed for reading in bed. She is resting a book on her torso.

Research diary: long-term thinking and lots of reading

Welcome, Jenn!

We're proud to welcome the Foundation's first Research Fellow!

Navy corpsmen on a boat looking at a hospital ship

Interview: Navy Medicine on Flickr Commons

Read more about how Navy Medicine uses their Flickr Commons account.

Two photographs of women, side by side in a photo album. There is a ghostly face behind the women in each image

Flickr Commons: Grand Galleries, Admired Albums

Flickr's Albums and Galleries are a great way to find shareable content and curate Flickr Commons massive trove of freely reusable images

Tommy Dodgen, a four year old boy, stands by the largest lamp in the world: Tampa, Florida

Florida Memory on Flickr Commons

How the State Library & Archives of Florida chooses which unique, fascinating, and quirky images to put on Flickr Commons.

Introducing flinumeratr, our first toy