Yahoo Photos set for closure

TechCrunch are reporting that Yahoo Photos is to be shut down in favour of the Yahoo owned Flickr.

An official announcement is set for today, with the closure happening over the next few months.  Yahoo will make it easy to transition to Flickr, but will not be forcing users to move that way.

Currently Yahoo photos is about 4 times the size of Flickr based on number of photos, but traffic to Flickr has recently approached (or exceeded, dependent on which metric you follow) that of Yahoo Photos.