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One of the many things Pinoys love to do online is uploading pictures that’s because we always find a reason to take a picture of anything and everything that’s happening in our lives.  No wonder the camera phone was quickly adapted in our country.  And no wonder as well that one of Yahoo!’s popular community-based services, Flickr, is very well-known and well-used in our country.

Photo by Stitch

As many of you may know already, Flickr is an image and video hosting website and online community platform that many use as a means to share personal photographs and also as a repository for blogs and websites.  It has more than 2 billions images already and continuously growing.  Almost all of the photos I use in the blog are from Flickr and I’m so proud to say that a lot of our fellow Pinoys are some of the best contributors of Flickr.

Photo by frozenjester™

Right now, Flickr’s largest group in the Philippines, the Flickristas, are running an online photo contest entitled “Flickrista 888: A Celebration of Life”, where photo hobbyists and professionals are challenged to explore the infinite meaning of the number 8 and capture it in a photo.  Why the number 8?  Well, this is the year of the Eight (we had 8-8-8 last August 8, 2008) and this number is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word “prosper” or “wealth”.

Photo by tacit requiem

What you see here are some of the entries but you can see all of it here - http://www.flickr.com/groups/pilipinas/discuss/72157606592922183/.  The event will culminate in a photo exhibit this coming October in one of the newest and coolest malls in Metro Manila and will showcase the photos that captured the essence of the number 8 and reward the winning entries.

Photo by imohthep

I’ll be updating everyone on the details of this upcoming event.  Also, the contest isn’t done yet so if you wish to join and be part of this celebration of life through photography, there’s still some time.  Just sign up for a Flickr account (you can easily do so with you Yahoo! account) and join the Flickrista group.  It doesn’t matter if you’re a professional photographer or a newbie who just got bitten by the photography bug, the important thing is if you have creatively taken a photo that captures the essence of the number Eight.  Check out the links and join now!

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