Although there are nearly 6 billion photos on Flickr, Front End Manager Ross Harmes has been able to see first-hand how much of a difference a single Flickr photo can make. After checking in with the man responsible for taking a photograph that held a place on Flickr’s front page for five years, Ross learned that Flickr helped spur a significant career change. “This guy went from being a cement layer to now a professional photographer just because of the publicity he got from that one photo.”

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