Flickr Groups

When I started using Flickr to share my photos, I picked the site for two reasons. It free, and no one had to sign in / create a user profile just to see my pictures. Pet peeve.

I liked it so much, I ended up paying for the Pro version, which gives me pretty close to unlimited usage.

So I constantly find neat little things out, things that make me say "Wow, I didn't know Flickr did that."

Today I stumbled on Flickr Groups. You can search groups to find people who share intrests, and share your love of pictures with them.

So over my morning coffee I started typing words into the group search, just to find out if there was a group and how popular it is.
Cats - 3017 groups that mention cats. I think Action Cats was my favorite, mostly because of this picture

Now that's an action shot!

There's a group for my home city, with some nice scenic pictures. Only 28 members in this one; I guess Jacksonville isn't the hotbed of Flickr activity.

106 seperate groups for writers, including the mucho exlussive Circle of Wine Writers. It's a private group with only one member, so I'm not sure how the Circle part of that - or the group part of that - is working for them.
Random searches :
Coffee lovers can choose from 605 groups, tea lovers only 327.
Democrats get 40 groups, Republicans 55
Love turned up 4014, sex only 810.
Pretty 880, ugly 284

And then my coffee cup was empty, a good sign it was time to stop searching. Much like my cup being empty now means it is time to stop writing, refill the cup, and get to work .

Happy Friday to you. Take a minute to find something new out there - it's only a search away.