Once you have joined the
Friends of Biss Meadows Country
Park you can sign-up to
Flickr [opens
new window]. This is an internet based photo storage and sharing
service. It is free for a reasonable number and size of photographs.
After joining Flickr you can apply to join the Flickr
Biss Meadows Group (contact
the Web Master). On acceptance, you will be able
to submit your own Flickr photos to the Group's Pool. A full guide has been
written - see the Contributing to the Gallery panel at the bottom
right.
Your photos will then appear in the Gallery page
under your name.
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For your photos to be seen in the Gallery under a particular subject, for
example "bird" you will need to be tagged with one or more category words
from the tag list
[opens new window]. Tagging
is done when submitting your photos to Flickr or can be done later via the
Flickr control panel. Tag photos will appear on other pages, for example,
photos tagged with "bird" will appear on in the Nature section
Bird page. Long term we are developing our
own control panel to make the tagging process faster.
Summary of Steps
Initial Sign-up Steps
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Join Yahoo
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This is because Flickr is owned by Yahoo.
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If you already have a Yahoo account then you can use that.
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Join Flickr
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If you already have a Flickr account then you can use that.
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Join the Biss Meadows
Group at Flickr
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This allows you to contribute your photos and to join in any discussions.
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Await confirmation from the Web Master.
Photo Uploading Steps
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Select Your Photos
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Organise your best photos ready for sending to Flickr.
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Send Your Photos to Flickr
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Known as "Uploading", this takes just a minute or so.
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Uploading is done via the Flickr web site.
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Alternatively Flickr now has a programme that you can install on your own
PC called Flickr
Uploadr. It's faster and easier for sending lots of photos to Flickr.
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You need to submit 5 photos before the account can be active.
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It may take a day or so for the account to be accepted by Flickr.
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Describe Your Photos to Flickr
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Give each photo a short descriptive title, typically about 6 words.
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Define some category key words (called tags)
[opens new window] so they
will appear in the Friends of
Biss Meadows web site.
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With Uploadr these 2 steps are done before you upload.
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Using a film camera and/or scanning old photos?
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Then you will need to set the Taken Date - if you don't know the exact
date then set the month & year, even if approximate.
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Add Your Photos to the Biss Meadow Group Pool
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Use Flickr's Organise & Create option to add you photos to the
pool.
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Your photos will now be seen on the
Friends of Biss Meadows
web site either in the Gallery page or on the relevant
topic page.
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It may take some hours before they are visible.
Full instructions are in the guide - see the Contributing to the Gallery
panel on the right.
