More than a year ago, I published an entry dedicated to Flickr groups that had travel and tourism photos as a central topic. It’s been a while ago, specially in the fast paced Internet, and it’s time to update this list. If you have any suggestion about Flickr groups that are not listed here, leave them on the comments. Before I forget: soon there’ll be news about this blog’s Flickr group, as a way to build a travel photography group and be able to discuss them in spanish -besides, of course, to establish a new difussion channel for the travellers’ work.
Travel Photography: with more than 5 thousands participants, the travel photo group is close to the 100 thousands published pictures. To explore the group is a long hours task, but I guarantee you’ll find excellent pictures.
Lonely Planet Bluelist: a group of travel pictures that comes from the publication of Bluelist, edited by Lonely Planet, which selects the best travel experiences. It’s relatively new, but it already has more than 500 members and 1500 photos. Only one picture per day can be published.
Travel Portraits: pictures of people we’ve found in our trips. Almost a thousand photos, more than 120 members.
Public Transportation: about public transportation means in several places in the world. 170 members, over one thousand photos.
Globetrekkers: with more than 720 members, they’re close to 14 thousands pictures of many places in the world.
Road Trip America: road pictures of the USA.
Visit the world: another travel photo group, with almost 100 thousands images.
Travel Pix: another large group of travel photographs, with over 40 thousands images.
Travellers and Landmarks: general topic travel pictures.
South America: South America pictures. The group is mostly in english, but the fact that it has about 10 tohusands pictures about our region makes it very attractive.
Passport Stamps and Visas: this is one of my favorites. It simply is about pictures of stamps that embellish your passport. Frankly, in some cases the number of stamps is remarkable. OBviously, you’ll feel pretty envious when looking at those passports.
Trenes: in spanish, a group dedicated to trains, with over 40 members and 200 published pictures. Your contributions are welcome.
Trains and Trolleys: obviously, photos of trains and trolleys.
Aeroplane in flight: pictures taken on flight. I’m sure we all have one of this kind.
Route 66: The Mother Road, the most famous route in the USA.
City Sunsets: while this is not a group specifically dedicated to tourism, the idea to photograph sunsets in various cities can’t help to be attractive to a traveller. It’s quite popular: 522 members and almost 1400 photos.
Motels: potentially an interesting project, which has grown a lot in this last year, and has over 200 participants.
By the way, even when Flickr is actually a quite good publishing platform, it still lacks some important tools when building groups. For example, a tool to filter images by popularity, or the number of people that have marked it as a favorite. They’ve added some functions in the groups; such as the possibility to limit the number of pictures that a member can publish by day. But it’s time to add new ones, if Flickr doens’t want to be left behind.