I've got over 1300 photos on my Flickr account now. Some are daily digital pictures while many are old, scanned photographs. It's nice knowing that if I were anywhere on the globe, I could show people the view from my balcony, my childhood dog, or Jay and me atop the Empire State Building. Although images are added as one gets the chance, locating a specific one is as easy as typing in a tag word.
I found the picture from a trip through Washington State when I looked for photos tagged with 'highway'. (Try clicking the word yourself.) Other images that come up include roads in France, Kuwait, the UAE, Sri Lanka, and northern British Columbia.
I see this as an exciting new way to interact with personal pictures. This method cannot be duplicated when pictures are all tucked away in silly albums. It'd be a logistical impossibility. Flickr gives rise to a complete shift in the concept of photo storage and retrieval, eh?