long photo
n.— «While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.» —“Video on Flickr!” by Heather Champ Flickr Apr. 9, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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