Our Own FLICKR Group!

We have a new Flickr Group for our Photo Walk photos! The link is HERE [http://www.flickr.com/groups/wwpw09-wilmington-de] and it's called "Worldwide Photo Walk - 2009 - Wilmington, DE"

Flickr is the photo-sharing website. Anyone who is anyone has a Flickr page! I've been using it for a while for my own purposes, and I think it's a fantastic service! I've joined several other photography groups and it's quite enjoyable and educational.

The purpose of our Flickr group is for you to upload as many images as you want from your Riverfront Photo Walk from last Saturday. This is completely optional and unrelated to your uploading the TWO images you want to enter into the contest.

Our group is a public group - meaning that anyone can view the images. However, membership is by invitation only so I can restrict membership to our group members only -- that is, only our group members can upload images.

In order to participate, here's what you do:

1. If you don't have one already, create a Flickr account. It's free. To learn more, and follow easy instructions, go to www.flickr.com ... also, RC from the home Worldwide Photo Walk organization has sent out emails to everyone explaining all of this. He has created a short video HERE to show you more about how to set up a flickr account. (the link is also on the email he sent out today.) You will upload your Photo Walk photos to your Flickr account first.

2. In order to be able to participate in our Photo Group and discussion, visit the link I gave you above, and follow the prompts to join our group. I will receive an email from your account, and I will activate your membership into the group.

3. Once your membership is activated, you will see our group listed in your account's groups listing. You can then select the Photo Walk images from your Flickr account that you uploaded previously and make them available to our group. You don't actually move them or copy them to the group.

By the way, as an aside, if you have or will have a Flickr account, I suggest that you click on your account settings page and look over all your settings to make sure you are protecting your privacy and copyrights adequately. Notice that you can restrict what your viewers can do with your photos, and you can restrict what resolutions are available for downloads. I have used Flickr to print my photos to Target (about 1 mile from my house), and I am pleased with the results for everyday use.

I hope you take advantage of the Flickr group!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Sandro V Cuccia
Leader, Wilmington Photo Walk
www.DEPhotoWalk.com