A new feature has been made available to flickr users – the ability to create a Gallery.

The important thing to remember, if you’re a regular flickr user or fan, is that they don’t contain any of your own photos – they’re more of a celebration of the work of others, with you compiling the gallery.

Users are notified when their pictures are added for the first time to somebody else’s gallery, and will subsequently show up in the photo page.

I think it’s a welcome feature, but the ability to create a gallery with your own stuff in, or mix and match would be a better idea. I think generally because I like the format of the gallery much more than the user-photo based set idea.

If you would like an example of a gallery, I quickly put together a selection of photos I found after a search on flickr for “abandoned” which you can see here.