Consumerist Friday Flickr Pool Finds

Here are five wonderful photos readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. Check ’em out, vote for your fave.

Title: “Bubble Trouble”
By: TeaWhyEllieAre

Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click “Join Group?” up on the top right, and start hitting “send to group” on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.

Title: “Encastráveis descartáveis”
By: mpires

Title: “20081021-RIMG0046”
By: Nykoh

Title: “No Pictures, Buddy”
Caption: “I came across this game of 3-card Monty on the sidewalk in front of Caesars Palace. He had close to a dozen people crowded around and kept everyone entertained as he took their money. Those are $100 bills in his hands.

After I raised my camera and snapped this picture, he said “No pictures, buddy. No pictures, buddy. No pictures, buddy.” I didn’t say a word, but I just looked at him. After all, it’s a public sidewalk. I can take pictures if I want, and it’s not like he’s going to call the cops for interrupting his illegal came. Then his demeanor changed and he said, “Please.”

OK, I’m not heartless. I won’t take orders from a street card shark, but I’ll relent if someone asks nicely, which he did. Personally, I would’ve loved to have made some more shots, but I didn’t see that happening. “

By: wbeem


Title: “Elvis On Parade shot with 5D Mark II”

Caption: “Elvis on a scooterbike at the Arlington Parade of Lights on December 6th 2008. Shot with the new 5D Mark II at the super ISO setting of 6400!!!! I used the 50mm 1.4 lens on it. I like the new 5d a lot. I was so embarrassed because my friend said “hey this thing does video doesn’t it….” Well I forgot to skim the manual before leaving the house. I looked and looked at the camera but could not figure it out while in the wild 🙂 This shot was taken only 1.5 hours after receiving the camera and opening the box!. “

By: analogkid281

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