Flikr was fun!

I liked exploring Flikr and can see many great uses for it.
The map feature was particularly intriguing to me. My last semester at Regis I had the opportunity to do a week-long service-learning trip with students, faculty and staff. We worked in an extremely poor but very interesting community 15 km. south of Lima, called Villa El Salvador. It's a locus of internal migration--a sprawling shantytown of half a million people. In the past it was populated by people who were fleeing the violence of the war between the Sindero Luminoso and the government; but now people are economic migrants for the most part. Anyway, it was cool to click on Lima and see photos of the region, and it brought back impressions of that trip, especially the vivid colors!
I also found it useful to search for photos tagged "human trafficking" for a program I am doing with Deb.
I was surprised, however, that I didn't see more photography as social investigation and critique--the Peru pictures I browsed didn't capture this "other" Peru...maybe the social justice types gather around a different on-line picture-sharing community??