You may have noticed a new ad banner at the top of this page. The wonderful folks in the Flickr community have come together to offer some amazing photographs for auction, all proceeds going to the Red Cross Katrina Relief effort. If you've been wanting to donate to the Katrina Relief effort, here's a chance to do so and get a really nice photograph out of it!

A caveat: You have to be a member of Flickr to leave a comment (which is how the bidding is happening), but it's free to join and it's a great way to share your photographs--and view some exciting work by some very talented photographers! Oh yeah, almost forgot...if you have a Yahoo! ID, you can now use that to log into Flickr.

So come on! (Katrina Relief Auction) (Flickr home) (Join Flickr)

(I'll be rummaging through my back catalog to see if I can come up with a worthy print for the next round of auctions...)