Flickr adds new photo-sharing idea: Galleries
Flickr has added a new feature called galleries to showcase photos--and this time not just your own shots.
Galleries, announced on Monday, lets Flickr members assemble collections of up to 18 photos. The photos are shown on the page along with the gallery curator's comments. Flickr has a reason for the 18-image limit: it wants to emphasize quality, not quantity.
"While it might seem like an arbitrary number, we want to give our members an opportunity to engage in activity that is similar to what a curator of a gallery or museum might undertake," the company said on its gallery FAQ site. "Even a sprawling retrospective of a genre or specific artist wouldn't include every single piece of work available. A curator takes the time to choose a selection of artwork that together becomes something in itself."
