"Every photo tells us something about how you see the world, and this year, the story you told was uniquely yours." So noted photo-sharing site Flickr, which recently looked back at 2025 to find out what photographers were posting and what they were shooting with. Apparently, Flickr photographers were in a colorful mood: The use of "Red" jumped 25% over the year and held the crown at the top, while "green" exploded into second place with a 45% surge. That may be because the tag "Nature" climb year-over-year. In terms of cameras, Nikon held onto its number-one spot, barely, since Canon gained ground fast with 17% growth.

  Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) was a visionary French architect who, among other things, devised the structural system that made it possible for Gustav Eiffel’s Statue of Liberty to sport a skin of self-oxidizing copper. His approach to materials was: understand the properties and the form will ensue. Many years later, this idea was popularized by Louis Sullivan, who coined the phrase, “Form Follows Function”—a statement widely considered ...