Everyone knows that District residents are suckers for pictures of baby animals. But as Flickr user spiggycat captured recently, those baby animals grow up. Here, some of the National Zoo’s brood of seven lion cubs — they turned one in September — stare intently at something just out of frame.

Some days selecting the Photo of the Day is as easy as taking a pill. At least when Matt.Dunn captures the decision making process.

The District loves to take photos; we also love to tweet. So where around the region are people doing both?

This morning, we got word from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs that they would soon be uploading a bunch of neat findings from the District’s Office of the Surveyor. According to DCRA, the Surveyor has “more than a century” worth of maps, some of which the agency plans on uploading to the agency’s Flickr feed over the coming weeks and months.

The easiest and perhaps most poignant way that NASA has connected the public with space exploration is through photography. Breathtaking photos of our first Earthrise, Hubble’s extended gaze to the ends of the universe and brilliant studies of activity on our sun show us how much exists that we have yet to explore, things we couldn’t even imagine until the photons hit film and CCD chips and were displayed for our relatively Earthbound eyes.

Which D.C. politicians are using social media to the benefit of their campaigns — and who just doesn’t have a clue?

Photo courtesy DDOT.DDOT told the world this morning that it would be opening up its vault of historical D.C. images and sharing them on Flickr. We know that you’re just as nerdy as us when it comes to these kind of historical Washingtonian documents; not surprisingly, DDOT has unearthed some really neat stuff from its archives. For instance, the photograph to the right of Connecticut Avenue NW, taken in 1958. (Check out the separate tunnel…

Omg panda! Okay, okay, we know many of you may not care or will just make fun of us for our never ending panda obsession, but we still squealed with something a little bit like joy when Flickr unveiled its brand new look yesterday, complete with surprise panda bear action. While we’re on the subject, Flickr’s redesign is kind of awesome. We use the site many times a day to check out what you…

We’ve been meaning to post this for a few days now: Flickr user whileseated, a.k.a. the guy in this photo whose name is Michael, proposed to his girlfriend on Inauguration Day while they were down on the National Mall for the Swearing-In ceremony. He posted this photo bleg to the Inauguration 2009 group:A total longshot, but I wonder if someone on flickr has a picture of my fiance and I, when I proposed to…

As you know, we at DCist are already huge fans of Flickr, the photo sharing site, and were excited to hear earlier this year when they launched a new pilot project called The Commons. Flickr paired with museums and organizations that held public photographic archives, like the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. Each of them have their own Flickr stream and periodically update from their treasure chest of history. Yesterday the Library of Congress…