tony blair steps down as prime minister: some flickr photos

  Outside Tony’s new gaffe 
  Originally uploaded by Azeem Azhar

I’m listening to the BBC News coverage of Tony Blair’s final minutes at the British Prime Minister. It’s exactly what you expect to see – big name BBC reporters doing a good job of interviewing big name politicians on what is a very big day in politics. They’re talking about the extraordinary standing ovation Blair was given as he finished his final Prime Minister’s Question Time and asking the usual questions about how much Blair has or hasn’t achieved, how things might change under Gordon Brown’s leadership, etc etc

For an alternative view, I turned to flickr to see what, if any, photos people have been taking and uploading. Surprisingly, there isn’t much there yet which tells me, perhaps, that either not as many people as I thought are uploading their photos directly to flickr from their cameraphones OR people are using their dedicated digital cameras to capture what are historic events. Hopefully in a few hours, when people get home, we’ll see more uploads but for now there isn’t much. Here are a few of the best I’ve managed to find:

mar00ned’s Bye Bye Bliar
IanFromBlighty’s Downing Street Movers
M.J.S.’s Blair’s Departure from Downing Street

Here are some places to start looking on flickr – if you find any good photos do post a comment below:

Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Parliament
Downing Street
Buckingham Palace

Update: Just spotted this nice bit of multimedia, a 360 degree quicktime VR of moving vans at Downing Street, on Marcus Warren’s Daily Telegraph blog