Flickr - Club Photos

[JonnoMarshall]

This came up last night in conversation during our spin when we stopped to take a few pictures, so I thought I would throw it our for discussion:


We currently post a few photos on the club website gallery, which seems fairly limited in functionality, so I think we should create a Flickr account for the club and post the photos there. This has several advantages over the gallery;

-Firstly Flickr is free for a terabyte of storage, so basically limitless
-Photos can be easily downloaded
-Photos can be made public/private, which might be a great way of advertising the club (as long as Rory isn't in any of them in THAT JERSEY!).
-Anyone can leave comments on any photo
-Organise the photos into event based sets and tag them with dates, names, places etc .so they can be searched through
-Unlike Strava,Facebook or the gallery, photos don't become unavailable after a certain period of time, they are always available. And Facebook don't own them!
-We can link it on the CCC website.

I think if pictures on outings were more readily available, more people would take them in the first place, and we could get some great variety as everybody pretty much has a camera in their phone these days. We might even get some GoPro merchants

This is something a lot of other cycling clubs, and even pro teams do already, so worth checking out.

I use flickr a lot for my own pictures, so I am happy to set this up and manage it if there is any interest.

Please let me know what you all think......

[PhOByrne]

Aug 14, 2014 11:53:22 GMT JonnoMarshall said:

This came up last night in conversation during our spin when we stopped to take a few pictures, so I thought I would throw it our for discussion:


We currently post a few photos on the club website gallery, which seems fairly limited in functionality, so I think we should create a Flickr account for the club and post the photos there. This has several advantages over the gallery;

-Firstly Flickr is free for a terabyte of storage, so basically limitless
-Photos can be easily downloaded
-Photos can be made public/private, which might be a great way of advertising the club (as long as Rory isn't in any of them in THAT JERSEY!).
-Anyone can leave comments on any photo
-Organise the photos into event based sets and tag them with dates, names, places etc .so they can be searched through
-Unlike Strava,Facebook or the gallery, photos don't become unavailable after a certain period of time, they are always available. And Facebook don't own them!
-We can link it on the CCC website.

I think if pictures on outings were more readily available, more people would take them in the first place, and we could get some great variety as everybody pretty much has a camera in their phone these days. We might even get some GoPro merchants

This is something a lot of other cycling clubs, and even pro teams do already, so worth checking out.

I use flickr a lot for my own pictures, so I am happy to set this up and manage it if there is any interest.

Please let me know what you all think......

Great idea John, and yes I think more people would use this if all the photos could be seen in the one place. Id definitely add some more.

[Shay]

Great idea John. I've used flicker and I agree, it would work really well for club photo gallery.

[JonnoMarshall]

Shay, check your messages for the Achill routes and let me know what you think?

[JonnoMarshall]

I have now setup this Flickr account, so if any body has any pictures from spins, nights out, club away days etc could you please send them onto me:

You can email pictures to [e-mail] and I will post them up. Please always send them in the largest size possible so they look better on the site.

Also please let me know the occasion and date they were taken so I can organise into albums etc.

If you have too many photos to email them to me, let me know and I can collect them from you on a USB drive which I will return to you once the photos are uploaded. Again, please have the photos in folders relating to the events/times etc to make it easier to organise them.

There are already some (fairly random!) pictures up online, just to get started, so feel free to have a look and leave comments etc, as the intention is to promote the social side of the club, and encourage everybody to join in.

Here is the link:

CCC Flickr Photostream

Hopefully we can link this to the club site/facebook page once it gets more established.



Lots of action shots please, but remember if you crash while taking these, protect the camera!

Thanks

John

[Shay]

Well done John. Great job! I have photos I will throw on a memory stick for you.

[JonnoMarshall]

Thanks Shay, bring them on Thursday night?

[Shay]

I am away Thursday, but I will give them to Barry for you.

[JonnoMarshall]

Shay I can collect tonight if that suits?

[Muller]

  Link to Flickr website now setup on homepage.

[JonnoMarshall]

All photos from the gallery on the website are now up on flickr. please send me any more that you have

[Shay]

Hi John, was in Dublin yesterday. Will Thursday evening be okay?