Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Beauty of the Commons

Stunning, sculptural, light pink flower with a yellow center
This photo of a flowering Nelumbo nucifera at the Botanic Garden in Adelaide, South Australia, is one of the entries in the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year Contest. (Photo by a Wikimedian named Peripitus.)

This isn't the winning picture -- I just like it.

There are some amazing photos in the group, and they're all available for use as long as they're credited to their creators and the Commons. As Cory Doctorow wrote of the contest photos in his post about them on boingboing.net, "they're all free as in beer and free as in speech."

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