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dec2005 013, originally uploaded by ShellyS.

On E. 57th St. Well, at Fifth Avenue. Hard to see in this shot (there's at least one better, to come), but there's a giant, hanging snowflake for the holiday season. It's lit at night.

There are a lot of fun social networking services and I just don't get into them. I got addicted to blogging, true, but del.icio.us and the like do nothing for me. I try them, and immediately lose interest.

But flickr? Wow. I'm hooked. Just to click "Explore" and see the week's "interesting" photos is addicting. And from there, I find wonderful photographers to add to my flickr contacts and some even add me back. Coolness.

I've noticed my count here is a bit low and I half about half the Bloglines readers as the AOL version of this had, plus of course, I don't have the AOLers who used alerts for my old photojournal. I hope folks are enjoying my photos, but commenting is down here from the AOL photoblog, too.

And yet, I don't mind much because of flickr. I can see how many times my photos have been viewed, individually, and folks can comment if they want (not much of that, but still...)

It's not just a photohosting service. It really is a photosharing community. And I love that I can tag my photos, put them in sets (multiple sets if I want), and add descriptions. I can view individually or the sets as slide shows.

And there's a free and a paid service. If you're still looking for a photohost, you should give it a look.