I noticed something very intriguing about an ad for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the 6 train this morning — the photo caption was credited to a Flickr user! (I was so suprised, I even documented it with my bad-quality BlackBerry camera.) It turns out the Met held a Flickr photo contest, and the winning picture was featured in the ad.

In an interesting coincidence, Getty Images just launched a new Flickr partnership today. Getty can now contact Flickr members and ask them if they want to share their images for use in a special Flickr-branded Getty collection. Flickr has long been a great place to find beautiful photography, and it’s fantastic that its users are getting the respect they deserve from the photo industry.

—Alyssa