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Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman
hxxp://www.flickr.com/photos/39426382@N02/
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thank you for that. despite the spaceball protection, the flickr photos are indeed always available. the low-level trick is this: right-click any gallery thumbnail, choose "copy image location" (or similar), paste that url into your address bar, then change the end of the filename from "_s.jpg" to either "_o.jpg" or "_b.jpg". you always want "_o.jpg" (for "original size"), but it's not always available. "_b.jpg", on the other hand, is always available in my experience. when the "_o.jpg" doesn't exist, the "_b.jpg" is the largest size available.
so, for example, go here:
hxxp://www.flickr.com/photos/39426382@N02/sets/72157624136049109/
then right-click the first thumbnail, choose "copy image location," and paste the url into your address bar:
hxxp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4693825507_cdc350eb24_s.jpg
change "_s.jpg" to "_o.jpg" and press the enter key. you'll get a flickr error page as the result. you can now safely assume that the "_o.jpg" doesn't exist for any photo in the current album. instead, try "_b.jpg":
hxxp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4043/4693825507_cdc350eb24_b.jpg
the result is the largest available version of the photo.
there may be a firefox greasemonkey script to speed this process up (i have one that worked before flickr's latest redesign). i hope this helps.