I’ve been exploring Flickr a bit more over the last week and I have to admit, I’m absolutely fascinated by it. There seems to be a little bit of EVERYTHING there. I did a search for photos tagged with the word labrador and sorted them by “interestingness”, which is a term that the Flickr folks came up with to describe interesting photos. (A photo’s interestingness is a combination of a lot of factors, which they describe here.) The photos that came back were nothing short of amazing. I did another search for photos tagged with the word donkey and got another incredible set of photos to enjoy. My particular favorite was this one, which is of a woman in a bridal gown, holding a bunch of flowers, with a donkey trying to sniff/eat the flowers. I could totally picture my wife being the one in the photo. In fact, if we would have had donkeys at the time we were married, I would have bet that they would have participated in the wedding. As it was, we only had a dog at the time, and she did participate in the wedding. Not surprisingly, a few minutes before the ceremony she slipped outside and went swimming in the lake nearby. She returned just in time for the start of the ceremony so she could shake the water off of her body and onto all of us. You gotta love animals!

If you enjoy great photos and haven’t take the time to look at flickr, don’t wait any longer. Go explore.

–Pete