As the most popular photo-sharing site on the web, Flickr has such a vast wealth of imagery that it’s impossible to look at everything. Luckily the people at Flickr make it possible for anyone with the interest and skill to create their own ways of displaying and discovering images. Some of the sites that people have come up with are truly stunning, and frankly make it a lot more fun to browse through images than it has ever been on the Flickr site itself. Below are a few of my personal favorites.
Idée Labs has come up with a strangely addicting way of browsing Flickr images based on nothing but color. Choose up to 10 colors and Multicolr will show you images that contain them, with fascinating results. Add and remove colors and see how your results change, but don’t get too carried away, which is easy to do!!
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Airtight Interactive’s beautiful and intuitive Flickr Related Tag Browser site lets you find Flickr images based on the tags, or keywords, their creators gave them. Start by entering any term you want, and see a batch of images with that tag. Related tags will appear in a circle around your first batch of images, and clicking on them will give you a new group of images to look at, and a new selection of tags to consider. Spend a few minutes on the site and discover some great Flickr photographers and their beautiful images.
Play the classic memory matching game with Flickr photos on a theme of your choice. Start with any keyword and Memry will create a custom memory board for you with photos from Flickr, some of which will seem to have nothing at all to do with what you entered!
Great design meets interesting and dynamic content on Flicker Time The Momment. The site tells you the time with dozens of Flickr thumbnail images arranged to create the numbers on a digital clock. Every minute old images fall away and new ones jump in to create the updated time. Mouse over any of the images to see a larger size, and click to see the photographer’s page and more of their work. You can even customize the look of your clock with a couple of keywords. Time flies when you’re watching this clock!
Endless Interestingness provides what is probably the simplest way to discover new images on Flickr. The page is a never-ending grid of popular and interesting images of all kinds, and is a good way to while away the hours or get inspired to go out and do some shooting yourself!.
