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Serious Photos and Fun Photos

Fun Photos are all our albums of photos taken on work weeks that we want to share with each other. We probably don't want to keep those for ever but they're well worth sharing.

Serious Photos in the Photo Gallery record how TFL work sites looked at a particular date, or wildife seen in the area. We want to keep these for many years to see the changes we help to bring about.

How To Find Photos Of Your Work Week
  1. Go to the Work Weeks Forum, then go the right Year for your work week.
  2. Look down the list for a topic about your week, click on the title to open it.

How To Share Your Work Week Photos

There are loads of good places to share photos on the web, you may already be using one, so we've set up our site to link to any of them. Just put your pictures on your favourite photo sharing website and post a link to them on our Work Week Forums.

If you're new to photo sharing, here's how it works:

  1. Find yourself a photo sharing site that's free and easy to use. One that works for me is photobucket and flicr is very popular too.
  2. Register on the photo site, create an album (or set, the words vary from site to site) and upload your pictures.
To post a link on this website to your photo album:
  1. Go to the Work Weeks Forum, then go the right Year Work Weeks forum for your work week.
  2. If there's already a topic about your week, open it and click POSTREPLY, if not, click NEWTOPIC. If this is your first post, you have to register, otherwise just login.
  3. If yours is the first post about your week, put the work week place and start date in the Subject (e.g. Skye 19th April 2008) so people can find it.
  4. Type your message and include a link your album. The link should look like
    [url]http://my.photo.site/my-album[/url]
    In fact you can click on the URL button to get the [url][/url] bit, then if you have your album open in another browser window, you can copy its web address from the browser Address bar and paste it in between [url] and [/url].
  5. Now click SUBMIT and the job's done.
If the other people on your work week aren't already using this site, send them an email and tell them to come and admire your photos.

How To Find Photos In The Photo Gallery
  1. Go to the Photo Gallery
  2. Use the Gallery list on the left to display different albums. Notice that some albums contain more albums. E.g. the Work Sites album contains separate albums for each place.
  3. Inside an album, click on a picture to enlarge it and see information about it. Click on it again to see it full size.
  4. Use the search box at the top left if you want to find a picture by title or description.

How To Contribute Photos Of Work Sites Or Wildlife
  1. Don't use this for uploading your whole album! See above for sharing your work week photos. This is just for photos of work sites or wildlife.
  2. Go to the Photo Gallery
  3. Only registered users can upload photos, so if you haven't yet got yourself a TFLvolunteer username and password click Register near the top right corner. It's the same registration as the Forum, so if you registered there you don't need to do it again. If you've already registered, click login.
  4. After logging in you may find yourself back in the Forum, if so navigate through the Photos menu back to the Gallery again.
  5. If you are not a Focaliser, the only album you can add photos into is Volunteer Contributed Photos. So click on that album to open it. If you happen to be a Focaliser you can add to any album.
  6. Click Add Items in the left margin. If that link isn't there you are probably not logged in, or in an album you are not allowed to add to.
  7. Click the From Web Browser tab if it isn't already selected.
  8. Below File use the Browse button to choose a photo file from your computer.
  9. Below Caption type a description of the picture. Include the place and the date.
  10. Click the Add Items button at the foot of the page. It may take some time to save big image files, be patient, it will tell you when it's done.
  11. When you see Upload Complete click on the album and then on your picture to check it.
  12. Add a map reference if you know it by clicking on Edit Photo in the left margin, then on the Custom Fields tab. Type the grid reference in the format NH123456 or NH12345678 (6 or 8 digits). The first two letters are the map sheet number, NG or NH. Click the Save button.
  13. In Edit Photo you can also improve your title and descriptions under the General tab.
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