Here are eleven of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for usability in a Consumerist post or just plain neatness.
#2 – (EmreKanik)
#3 – (JoelZimmer)
#4 – (ash‚Ñ¢)
#5 – (ashi)
#6 – (bluesydude)
#7 – (Teresa RS)
#8 – (I_am_Allan)
#9 – (B Cobb Photo)
#10 – (lungstruck)
#11 – (philografy)
Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers 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.
Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr Pool, and perhaps they’ll be featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post. See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.
CREEPY EYES ARE CREEPY. I also may have peed a little.
It needs to be turned into an animated gif, where after a few monments, the pupils dart around.
While a little geeky, this should counteract it.
A darn good tumblr! I enjoy it when I’m not almost wetting myself. I would’ve replied earlier, but I had to work up the nerve to SCROLL PAST THAT PICTURE.
That first one is disturbing and reallllly doesnt need to go on a future post. It doesn’t need to be on this post.
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
OMG all that saffron! That jar is worth A LOT!
Do you think there is a LIEN on that house???
lololololol
As a sufferer of automatonophobia, I wish there would have been a warning on the page…picture #1 reminds me of a ventriloquist’s dummy, and THEY FREAK ME OUT!!
Picture #7 makes me wonder about the house, what it looked like when it was new, what was the family like who lived there, and what happened that part of it looks like it was blown against the trees – a tornado, maybe?
Mmmmm saffron.
The smile suits the eyes in the first one. Actually, without that smile, googly eyes would have been used uselessly.
Why must at least 4 out of 11 photos have some sort of silly filter or processing applied to them? It’s like the modern photo-taking technique is as follows:
1. Take crappy photo.
2. Apply trendy filter.
3. Pretend that crappy photo is no longer crappy.
By my count, 8 of them have been noticeably messed with, mostly by automated filters.
Well, as far as my Creepy Googly Eye picture goes, I did nothing to the shot other than crop out the distracting stuff on the left and right and turn up the contrast slightly. That was shot on XP-2 film stock, which tends to run a little grainy.
But no – no hipstermatic effects here!
Nobody named names…
As far as my count goes, “Googly Eyes” eyes was in neither my list of crappy photos nor crappy photos with filters.
Naw, it’s cool. I was just making sure – with the rise of hipsters and their fake film shots, I can see people going “What a poser! That film filter looks FAKE!” when it indeed was the real McCoy.
I actually cull a lot of the more interesting photos for Hipstamatic abuse. A lot of those apps have an automatic “send to Flickr” button, and the pool is flooded with them.
I beginning to think the key to getting a photo selected is to do one of the following:
- turn your HDR filter up to 11
- turn your vignette filter up to 11
- turn your sharpening filter up to 11
- let hipstamatic take the snapshot for you
/sourgrapes
#5 – Bubbles!
#1 – Little Bobby made a huge fortune as an anime model.