My Top Flickr Photos Of 2025
2025 Dec 29
flickr.com
Like I do every year, here's a collection of my 10 most best performing photos I shared on Flickr in 2025. (And for comparison, here are years previous: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012. Judge for yourself whether I've been improving.)
For what it's worth, eight of these, I shot with the Nikon Zf, and the other two, the Fujifilm GFX 50R. Nine of the photos were taken while traveling – three in Japan, four in London, one mid-flight, and one camping – and six were taken at night, with an additional two during the twilight hours.
Leaving my "top of the year" album up to the whims of Flickr's hordes is always a little bit a test to see whether the masses truly are asses, but I feel that this year's set is a decent group. Maybe not exactly what I would have picked myself, but not a bad showing.
Like I do every year, here's a collection of my 10 most best performing photos I shared on Flickr in 2025. (And for comparison, here are years previous: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012. Judge for yourself whether I've been improving.)
For what it's worth, eight of these, I shot with the Nikon Zf, and the other two, the Fujifilm GFX 50R. Nine of the photos were taken while traveling – three in Japan, four in London, one mid-flight, and one camping – and six were taken at night, with an additional two during the twilight hours.
Leaving my "top of the year" album up to the whims of Flickr's hordes is always a little bit a test to see whether the masses truly are asses, but I feel that this year's set is a decent group. Maybe not exactly what I would have picked myself, but not a bad showing.
XPan Modifications
2025 Dec 24
bobeckertphotography.com
This photographer modified the infamous Hasselblad XPan to take a, of all things, Samyang 8mm fisheye lens. And his results are far better than they have any right to be. I'm impressed.
This photographer modified the infamous Hasselblad XPan to take a, of all things, Samyang 8mm fisheye lens. And his results are far better than they have any right to be. I'm impressed.
Geardex
2025 Nov 21
geardex.app
Here's a great new photography tool that just launched – a web app that helps you keep your gear pile index, sorted, and inventoried.
Here's a great new photography tool that just launched – a web app that helps you keep your gear pile index, sorted, and inventoried.
Jumping Across The Sun
2025 Nov 18
iflscience.com
A collaboration between astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and skydiver Gabriel C. Brown produced an image like we have never seen before. Called The Fall of Icarus, it shows Brown falling over an incredible image of the Sun in hydrogen alpha light. This is a specific wavelength that traces the turbulent hydrogen layer just above the Sun’s bright surface. The result speaks for itself.
Jeanloup Sieff
2025 Aug 28
jeanloupsieff.com
French photographer, 1933-2000, beautiful photographs for your inspiration.
French photographer, 1933-2000, beautiful photographs for your inspiration.
Chongqing, the world’s largest city – in pictures
2025 Apr 29
theguardian.com
The Guardian published their reporter Alessandro Gandolfi's vacation snaps as he poked around the city of Chongqing. The article's bold text at the top claims "The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it," which seems rather contradictory to me. Or Euro-centric, perhaps. Anyway, they continue: "The megacity of 34 million people in central of China is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. The Communist party decided 30 years ago to unify and populate vast rural areas, an experiment that has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world." It's just a really big damn city not on the Western tourist's radar, is all. Whatever. Enjoy the photos. They're alright.
The Guardian published their reporter Alessandro Gandolfi's vacation snaps as he poked around the city of Chongqing. The article's bold text at the top claims "The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it," which seems rather contradictory to me. Or Euro-centric, perhaps. Anyway, they continue: "The megacity of 34 million people in central of China is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. The Communist party decided 30 years ago to unify and populate vast rural areas, an experiment that has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world." It's just a really big damn city not on the Western tourist's radar, is all. Whatever. Enjoy the photos. They're alright.
Photographer: Emma K. Alexander
2025 Apr 29
blog.flickr.net
My Flickr contact Emma Alexander got featured in the Flickr Blog Photography Spotlight! Congratulations. Check out her inspirational shots of D.C. – are they street photography? Sure, why not? Gotta call them something. In her words:
My Flickr contact Emma Alexander got featured in the Flickr Blog Photography Spotlight! Congratulations. Check out her inspirational shots of D.C. – are they street photography? Sure, why not? Gotta call them something. In her words:
Outside of the photography world, I think folks tend to have a very specific definition of street photography in their head, usually involving some rogue photographer with a giant flash running up to an unwitting subject and getting in their face. That stereotype kept me away from the term for a long time. However, I’ve come around to include cityscapes, architecture, photos of places without people, and even some abstracts, in my definition of street photography.See why I'm a fan?
I went to London
2025 Apr 26
branden.me
Last month, I spent a few days in London, just me and my cameras. I've finished going through my photos (finally) and I've picked a few to share, if you're interested. Check them out. Here's a teaser:
Last month, I spent a few days in London, just me and my cameras. I've finished going through my photos (finally) and I've picked a few to share, if you're interested. Check them out. Here's a teaser:
The Eggman's Printers
2025 Mar 11
instagram.com
Here's a promotional short for an upcoming photo auction of William Eggleston's work, but what's interesting here is that the short (and the auction) feature front-and-center not Eggleston himself, but the technicians who printed his work: Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli. According to the auction house, Stricherz and Malli are the "acknowledged masters of the dye transfer printing process" who created the "perfected master prints by which subsequent prints in a respective edition were judged" – including the Eggman's most famous prints.
Here's a promotional short for an upcoming photo auction of William Eggleston's work, but what's interesting here is that the short (and the auction) feature front-and-center not Eggleston himself, but the technicians who printed his work: Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli. According to the auction house, Stricherz and Malli are the "acknowledged masters of the dye transfer printing process" who created the "perfected master prints by which subsequent prints in a respective edition were judged" – including the Eggman's most famous prints.
California is on fire, again
2025 Jan 10
ethanswope.com
Linked is a set of phenomenal photos of Pacific Palisades burning to the ground by LA-based Ethan Swope (who is still a student). It's stunning, shocking, horrifyingly beautiful stuff – the best I've seen of this latest round of fires.
Meanwhile, in other fire-related things, a firefighting plane had to be grounded after hitting a drone flying where it shouldn't be, and this person on Bluesky who is a fire scientist and former firefighter created this thread about why these fires are so big (we gave them fuel) and burning so many structures (we like plants next to our homes). Also, check out Tag Christof's Flickr stream for more fire photos.
Burn, baby, burn.
Linked is a set of phenomenal photos of Pacific Palisades burning to the ground by LA-based Ethan Swope (who is still a student). It's stunning, shocking, horrifyingly beautiful stuff – the best I've seen of this latest round of fires.
Meanwhile, in other fire-related things, a firefighting plane had to be grounded after hitting a drone flying where it shouldn't be, and this person on Bluesky who is a fire scientist and former firefighter created this thread about why these fires are so big (we gave them fuel) and burning so many structures (we like plants next to our homes). Also, check out Tag Christof's Flickr stream for more fire photos.
Burn, baby, burn.
'He looked at me with hate in his eyes’
2025 Jan 7
dailymail.co.uk
The story of how Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured photos of Nazi Joseph Goebbels before and after Goebbels learned Eisenstaedt was Jew.
The story of how Jewish photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured photos of Nazi Joseph Goebbels before and after Goebbels learned Eisenstaedt was Jew.
Solargraphy is a type of photography where the exposure length is measured in months. Usually done with homemade pinhole cameras, a solargraph's main distinctive feature are the repeated parallel paths of the sun through the frame and the total absence of any impermanent object, such as people. Check out the gallery in the link.