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Flickr regained my attention earlier this year when I stumbled across their new mobile apps (available across multiple carriers and platforms). I had an account with them over six years ago and managed to forget about it because of aggressive social media giants Facebook (and still at the time, MySpace) along with then-competing photo storage sites.

Flickr still continues to have heavy competition from sites like Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest but it seems to be making its way back into the mainstream with the crowds. However, I’m not sure Flickr jumped on the wagon soon enough with the amount of popularity it’s competition has seen over the past few years.

Still, though, Flickr has its own unique niche in that everyone can of course upload and share (and ultimately showcase) their photos, but only the exceptional and awe-inspiring are curated and spot-lighted by Flickr. As others have mentioned in reviews, there may be one well needed addition to this app to allow uploading of photos already stored on the phone.

Currently the app only allows you to capture images and upload directly – which is still useful and a fantastic feature considering the amount of control you have at your fingertips with each photo (editing, adding filters, etc). The loophole to this problem seems to be in the ability to email content directly into Flickr from your phone (using any email account from your phone). It’s a way to troubleshoot it, but it does feel like an unneeded run-around for a site as well-known and used as Flickr.

What I wanted to note most about this site is that it has it’s own agenda (aside from allowing it to be a social media environment) one of it’s main purposes is to curate photography that is artistically note-worthy and beautiful. It also allows artists to sell and buy original and copy prints of their work.

All of this, if I’m not mistaken, can be done from the app as well.

Check it out for yourself here, Flickr, and see which app is compatible for your device.