Flickr celebrated the 5th year anniversary of the launch of The Commons today. The massive collection of public domain photos now includes more than 250,000 images from 56 different libraries, archives, and museums.
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Wowzers. Time flies! As we come to the end of another year of blogging about the wonderful world of photography, here’s a roundup of the top 10 most popular posts of the past 12 months. It’s a list of advice, inspiration, creativity, and interesting news stories.
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This is probably the strangest and most awkward thing you’ll see today. It’s a short 5-minute video titled “The World’s Most Downloaded Man” that chronicles photographer Fernado Martins’ journey to meet Jesper Bruun, the world’s best-selling stock photography model. It’s actually part of a marketing effort for Martins’ photo studio, Câmera Clara Photography Studio in Brazil. For some strange reason the video is going viral online, despite the fact that Yuri Arcurs (the world’s top selling microstock photographer who works with Bruun) has come forward to say that Bruun isn’t actually the world’s top selling model. The whole thing doesn’t make much sense to us — kinda like this performance art piece.

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As 2011 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the past year:

1. Portraits of Dogs as They Shake Off Water
2. Men Photographed in Stereotypical Pin-Up Poses
3. How to Transfer a Photograph Onto a Block of Wood
4. Large Objects Shot as Miniatures Using a Giant Coin and Tilt-Shift Effects
5. Eagle Owl Attacking Camera at 1000fps
6. First Ever Photograph of a Human Being
7. Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher at 1000 Frames per Second
8. Monkey Hijacks Photographer’s Camera and Shoots Self-Portraits
9. Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beans
10. Trippy Multidirectional Face Illusions

Image credit: Fireworks by Verpletterend

As 2010 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the past year:

1. Scientific Curiosity Captured in Photos
2. Apollo 11 Launch at 500 Frames per Second
3. Flamethrower Versus Fire Extinguisher at 1000 Frames per Second
4. House Season Finale Filmed Entirely with Canon 5D Mark II
5. 7 Steps to Taking Clone Photographs
6. First Ever Photograph of a Human Being
7. Dogs Filmed at 1000 Frames Per Second
8. People Magazine Uses Photo without Permission, Receives Cake Invoice
9. 4 Creative Projects that Bend the Reality of Street Scenes
10. Ansel Adams Garage Sale Mystery Apparently Solved

Image credit: Happy New Year !!! by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton