You know those National Geographic “Best Pictures of the Year” e-mails? You tend to get them around the holiday time, and you’re always inspired to forward them to your mom, your grandma, even your fellow coworkers. It’s one of the few viral emails that’s truly organic, and isn’t annoying like most chain emails. (I’m talking to you, “Forward and your wish will come true!!” emails…)
During one of our weekly brainstorms in the “Magic Factory” room (named by Ms. Paula Berg herself), we decided the Southwest Airlines Flickr group needed its own annual awards, by golly!
We assembled a taskforce of plane spotters, photo enthusiasts, and other random passers-by, and picked our favorite 20 Flickr photos for 2009. These photos represent what’s great about Southwest Airlines: colorful livery, beautiful cities, happy people, and a general aura of zaniness.
Our winners range from professional photographers to Southwest Employees to a Food Technologist! (Not exactly sure what that job is, but it sounds awesome.)
Our winners not only get worldwide acclaim and adoration from their fellow peers, but also a roundtrip ticket on Southwest…which we hope will involve some serious picture-taking.
Congratulations to all of our winners! If you have an amazing Southwest photo to share, I suggest you add it to our photostream today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutsaboutsouthwest/
Please visit our Flickr page to see all of the winners and their other wonderful photographs!
Comments
Those were GREAT photos! Are you selling Posters/ Large Ones, I mean!
Perfect for gift for those Southwest Lovers! Thanks!
Anonymous,
No, but that is a GREAT idea for next year. I think a calendar, too! Just so you know, all the photos are hyper-linked to that user's profile on Flick--so you can see ALL of their amazing photographs!
Incredible, absolutely incredible!
Amazing, especially the lightning photo and the toy airport photo. The In-N-Out Burger sign at LAX is making me hungry.
What a great selection of pictures! I've been inspired to make your 2010 list!
Where can I get one of those Southwest bags for my grandson (the one that looks like a plane)??? He's always been told the orange and blue plane in the sky was Grandma's plane and wanted to know why I let other people use my plane !!! lol. Would love to get him one of those bags. He'll be making his very first flight on Southwest (yippie) this coming February 14 just before his sixth birthday !!
Amazing! Oh and the 17th pic looked like it was a model...lol!
As an employee, going on eight years, those photos make me proud to be a member of a strong company, who has safety as its utmost concern and following that a fiscally responsible airline that cares about people. Thanks Southwest for another great year!
My favorite is the one where a kid in the park is looking at the plane. Great Angle...
Great photos about a great airline. Best wishes to all Southwest employees for 2010. The employees ARE the airline.
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