Flow’s Flickr account attracts more than five million views

The Zambezi Gorge, below the Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. (Image: Flow Communications)

Flow’s Flickr account, showcasing over 20 000 photos from all over the world, has reached more than five million views!

We’ve been running the account under the name Flowcomm for 13 years – almost all of Flow’s history as a company.

Flickr is an online platform for storing and categorising images and videos. Started in 2004, Flickr now has more than 100-million users and hosts billions of images, according to a blog post it published in May 2019.

All the photos Flow has uploaded to Flickr are licensed as Creative Commons – in other words, they’re free to use for any purpose you like, with attribution. To download a picture, just go to our account, browse through our albums or pictures, select what you’re looking for and download it in the quality you prefer. (We always upload our pictures at the highest resolution available, and Flickr will offer you this to download, as well as smaller sizes.)

Most of Flow’s images uploaded to Flickr were taken by Flow’s CEO, Tara Turkington, although many different Flowstars have made contributions to the account over the years. Our pictures have been used in books, presentations, artworks, on websites and in museums, maps and school lessons.

Kudu bull, Kruger National Park, South Africa. (Image: Flow Communications)

The photos are organised into about 130 albums, including albums on countries from around the world, including South Africa, Ireland, Tanzania, Ethiopia, India, the United States, Ghana, China, Russia, Serbia, Namibia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Jordan, the Seychelles, Mozambique, Morocco, Mauritius, Kenya, Zambia, the Maldives, Uganda and England, among others.

About half the images were taken in South Africa, including the country’s biggest cities of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. We also have an extensive library of tourist attractions in South Africa, including the Cradle of Humankind, Table Mountain, the Nelson Mandela Capture Site, the Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Point and Constitution Hill. You’ll also find a rich repository of pictures taken in game reserves such as the Kruger National Park, Madikwe Game Reserve, MalaMala and Pilanesberg Game Reserve.

Some of our individual images have had thousands of views. Please see a selection below.

“Slow water”, Northern Ireland. This image was taken in Tollymore Forest Park near the small town of Newcastle. The park gained global exposure when scenes in the popular series Game of Thrones were filmed here. (Image: Flow Communications)

Sunset in Mauritius. With its diverse landscapes, Southern Africa is home to deserts, grasslands, mountains, and lush islands such as Mauritius. (Image: Flow Communications)

Leopard yawning, South Africa. Many of Flow’s images are of African wildlife. (Image: Flow Communications)

Warm water, Thailand. Apart from its warm water and tropical climate, Thailand is also known as the Land of Smiles, because of its friendly people. (Image: Flow Communications)

Kniphofia uvaria, commonly known as red hot pokers, Cradle of Humankind, Johannesburg. (Image: Flow Communications)

Dog, Johannesburg. We’ve taken a lot of pictures of various dogs over the years. They’re a popular topic, which people frequently search for on Flickr. (Image: Flow Communications)

Man fishing near the city of Hue, Vietnam. (Image: Flow Communications)

Red panda in the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling, India. (Image: Flow Communications)

Sunset at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Ankgor Wat is the most famous example of Cambodia’s temples, which number in the region of 4 000. (Image: Flow Communications)

Giraffe and wildebeest, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. (Image: Flow Communications)

Monument to Marshal GK Zhukov, Manezhnaya Square, in front of the State Historical Museum of Russia in Moscow. (Image: Flow Communications)

Dead Vlei, Namibia. (Image: Flow Communications)