Link to our sister Group: Bird Videos
If you have any kingfisher photos, we have a new group called All Kingfishers To invite your contacts use thisLink
To avoid having your photos deleted from the pool, please read the rules below - your pictures could be removed without warning during busy periods - so please read carefully BEFORE posting.
The discussion area is there to be used. Please feel free start a new topic on anything related to birds.
Want to share your photos with us? We'd love to see them. But please, limit yourself and do not dump the pool, give us time to enjoy each of your photos.
And just as important, please take a moment to comment on a photo in the pool. This thing is about feedback and discussion more than it is about "Hey, look what I did."
Also, please do not pull and resubmit your photos to the pool just to bump their position. We saw it the first time. Go out and shoot something different for us. :)
Our goal: Gathering together all Bird photos displayed on Flickr and showing the beauty of the Birds. Our vision includes weekly/monthly themed contests.
This is a group where you can post all your real live bird photos. We are celebrating the beauty and elegance of birds.
Birds Photos group hopes to raise awareness of and appreciation for all birds. This group is comprised of members whose common interest are birds and photographing them as a passion. Group is not only very proud to house a unique and impressive photographic collection, but also offer a venue to talented photographers artists and all interested in birds. Please help this group became bigger and more interesting by inviting your favorite avian photos.
For those of you who have a contact, that might be interested in this group, invite them. And don't forget to copy the codes below writing comments.
Optional, but highly encouraged
Post a picture? Leave a comment. Just doing this one, simple, quick thing will improve the quality of cross education immensely. Note a technique, offer an idea - anything, really. Just be nice. We're all about civility here.
Inviting other people's photos to the group:
For those of you who have a contact, that might be interested in this group, invite them.
To invite other members to the group, highlight the code in the box below, right-click, select Copy, go to the photo you wish to comment on, right-click and select Paste to add the following HTML code into your comments:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdsphotos><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2467675307_ddd0aa6d95.jpg" width="48" height="48"alt="Birds Photos"></a>
Please add this great bird photo to<b> "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdsphotos">Birds Photos</a>"</b> group</a>
When you comment on a photo:
Please take a few moments to view or comment on other photographs in the pool; we all enjoy encouragement from our fellow photographers. To link back to the group when commenting on other photos, highlight the code in the box below, right-click, select Copy, go to the photo you wish to comment on, right-click and select Paste to add the following HTML code into your comments:
<b> Seen in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdsphotos">Birds Photos</a> Group</b>
Few thing you should know:
• We don't have any posting limit but please do not dump the Pool
• Only photos allowed in the Birds Photos group, no videos.
You can post your videos in Bird Videos group.
• It is harmful to disturb many bird species in the nest, or during the first few days of fledging, so we ask you not to post photos of birds in their nests or eggs.
• No Dead birds that you find dead or that you have or someone else has killed.
• Please only add pictures of birds that are real not ones that have been created by man like toy stuffed birds, statues, paintings, creating your own bird/species in photoshop and etc.
• No Only People Shots it is ok to post some pics of birds and people together if the bird is the subject but if it is only people or the bird is not the subject of the shot then the picture will be deleted.
• If the picture of the bird is too far away to the point you can barely see the bird they will be deleted. We have been getting a lot of landscape shots that are thrown in just because they have a spec of an bird really far away. You should be able to see the bird in the thumbnail.
• This should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: Please do not use the threads as a classifieds section. Selling your stuff on Flickr is against the site's TOS, and it endangers the status of our group. Thanks.
That said, no one here knows everything. We learn stuff here every single day. Read, and ask.
Also, we created "Birds Photos" group FAQ, for the benefit of new members.
More important than the subject matter is the approach to helping (or being helped by) others. Good luck and happy shooting! :)
