There are probably more photos in existence today than ever before. I live in tourist crazed Little Italy, in New York. Almost everyone that walks by me does so with either a smartphone, a tablet, or old school camera in front of their faces.

I’m no stranger to this since my father snuck a camera into the baby viewing room at the hospital and took my first picture when I was less than one hour old. As I got older, I would ask, “Who has a closet load of pictures and movies other than my dad?” He even developed his own photos.

That closet of pictures still exists today, however it doesn’t even come close to the amount of pictures that one person can take with their smartphone these days in just one week. The ability to quickly store these pictures and videos through cloud services and photo hosting companies has added to the proliferation of photos in existence.

One such site is Flickr. It is an image and video hosting website and web services suite. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo one year later in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photos and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

A little over one year ago, in December 2012, Yahoo released version 2.0 of its iPhone (News - Alert) and iPad app for sharing photos on Flickr. This release gave users the ability to store their images with bigger, crisper photos, a cleaner design, filters and easier sharing options.

Four months later the Android (News - Alert) version of the app was available. At that time, Yahoo decided to throw Flickr a New York party with a redesign of the website and an offering of a free terabyte of storage. Remember when that was an unbelievable amount of storage space? Part of the redesign included larger photos with higher quality resolution.

At that time, Marissa Mayer, who was hired during the summer of 2012 as Yahoo’s CEO, said “I think Flickr is awesome again with these new announcements. Photos make the world go around. Flickr was awesome once. It languished. But now it’s awesome again.”

How does that phrase go? “There is always room for improvement!” Apparently this is how Mayer feels. Less than one year later, we have, what is being looked at as a redesign of the new redesign. Several Yahoo sources are hinting that we are on the verge of seeing another new Flickr.

Supposedly, this latest, new version of the photo hosting site will have more coordination between the Web and mobile versions. It has been described as having what looks like a seamless photo stream and no white space.

It seems to me that we live in a world where having untold numbers of photos of places that people have been to is the most important part of the trip. Toward this end, we have Flickr, Facebook (News - Alert) owned Instagram and too many others to mention. So it is no wonder that Yahoo is trying to yet again resuscitate its investment in Flickr.

Before Yahoo redesigned Flickr in May 2013, it was ranked 64th in photo and video, with an overall rating of 705. The new version of Flickr rose to the number nine spot with an overall 130 ranking. Since then it has fallen back down to the number 43 spot.  You can see that it has had a bumpy ride.

In addition to the news that we can expect to see the latest, newest redesign within the next few weeks, Mayer has hired Bernardo Hernandez from Google (News - Alert) to make this happen. As it is stated in Re/code, “The stylish product exec has been hard at work, it seems, trying to make Flickr the new, new thing.”