Flickr

Picture Australia and Yahoo! invite you to contribute your photographs to Picture Australia, using Yahoo!’s online image repository, Flickr (www.flickr.com)!

The Flickr website contains more than 70 million images from contributors all over the world and was acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005. Around 80 per cent of the images stored on Flickr are freely accessible to anyone visiting the site. This sets it apart from other internet photo sharing sites, where users often specify precisely who is allowed to view the images they upload. The site’s two million users presently add a new image to the site every four seconds.

Anybody can add their own photographs to Flickr quickly and easily, marking them with descriptions and tags so they can be archived correctly and retrieved at a later date by other visitors.

Picture Australia does not own the Copyright for the images contributed through Flickr. To obtain permission to reproduce the Flickr images found in Picture Australia, you will need to contact the individual photographers by logging into Flickr and using Flickrmail to send them a message.

If you would like to add your photos to the Picture Australia group on Flickr simply follow these steps:

  1. go to www.flickr.com
  2. Sign in to Flickr, or sign up if you are not already a member.
  3. Visit the Picture Australia groups, by searching for ‘Picture Australia’ under the ‘groups’ tab in Flickr, or by following these links:
    Picture Australia: People, places and events
    Picture Australia: Ourtown
  4. Click on the ‘Join this group’ link and follow the prompts.
  5. Read through the group descriptions for guidelines about contributing to Picture Australia, including information on captions, tags and licences
  6. Upload your images to Flickr.
  7. Add your images to the Picture Australia group by clicking on the ‘send to group’ icon located above each of your images in your personal pool.
  8. Note: submitted content is monitored to ensure it meets Flickr guidelines and the terms and conditions of the group guidelines.

To have your images considered for acquisition:

  • Consider licensing your image with Creative Commons
  • Include detailed titles, descriptions and tags
  • Upload high-resolution images, e.g. 2500 x 1900 pixel
  • Include alternative contact details or check Flickr mail regularly

Contact information:
Web: www.flickr.com
Email Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/help/website/#7
Email Picture Australia: paFlickr@nla.gov.au
Flickr Help: http://www.flickr.com/help/
Yahoo!: http://au.yahoo.com/

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