Making Flickr Work for Us!

For those of you that don't know there has been discussion on better ways to use Flickr and we've come up with a few suggestions including changing the website to utilise the clubs pool of photographs. One of the things that is in the process of being created is a separate Flickr group, called "Reflex Camera Club - Admin". The aim of creating this group is so that we can invite photographs, from club members that have Flickr accounts, into it and thus make it easier for them to be used on the club's website. So far only a few of the club are members of this group and only those that are members will be able to choose photographs to be added into this group. The intent is not to invite all members into it but only have, at the most, all committee members in the group. That does NOT mean only a select few people will have photographs in the new group it just means that only a few people will be able to choose the pictures that go into it.

There is no intention at all to create an elitist group of members or to create anything that only a select few ever get to do. One of the aims is to use at least one picture from each club member.

Of course we can only use the pictures from members that are on Flickr. Hence the push to get people to join and upload pictures. By doing it this way we can have a tighter control of the images used on the front of the website. If you want to have your pictures on the new club website you will need a Flickr account as that is the only way that we will be using to add pictures to our website to start with.  Starting from Friday we will be inviting individual photographs into the new Flickr group. You will see a request for you to add a picture into the group. If you accept you are agreeing to us using it on the clubs website and for promotional purposes (not to make money but to increase the profile of the club). The copyright for any of the images we use will remain with you and if we want to use it for anything other than the website we will make every effort to contact you and check that it's O.K. to use it first.

We also have some other ways which we hope to use Flickr to promote the club and to get you more involved. I hope you will join us on Flickr. It really is easy to use and it lets you see and show more images than you otherwise would.

If you have any concerns or want to talk about this, joining Flickr or anything else, then let me know either by email or phone me on 0797 1283819.

This new group will also be used to hold copies of the club's competition winning photo's so that I can use them on the Blog, which for a photography club, is sadly lacking in photographs. If you have any ideas for the Blog then let me know them as well.

Mark