Encyclopedia of Life Images

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About Encyclopedia of Life Images

This group was started to allow anyone to provide images for the Encyclopedia of Life web site. Images and scientific illustrations of organisms or their signs (tracks, nests, etc.) are welcome. Videos are welcome too.

There is no limit on the number of images you can post to this pool.
BUT
Please choose only your best photos of each organism, and submit more than one image only if it adds something new. Examples of something new could be 1) a new part of or variation in the organism that hasn't been pictured, 2) a different sex or life stage, 3) a new place the organism may be found, 4) a new behavior or habitat for the organism.

If you're looking for more ways to explore this collection, check out Encyclopedia of Life Images on Flickriver.

If you Twitter, you can follow EOL.


Helpful links:
Eol Flickr Tutorial
Changing your licenses
Adding machine tags
Complete machine tag list
Images I posted to the group aren't showing up on the EOL web site?
NEW! Online Identification Guides

Check out your Quality Control report to look for potential issues with images you have submitted. Click on the list of contributors, then the QC report link for your Flickr username.

A tool to help tag images is available at iNaturalist.



The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a government-funded project to bring together information about Australian plants, animals and microorganisms. The ALA is working with the Encyclopedia of Life and is encouraging Australian photographers to contribute to this group. Images of Australian species shared under Creative Commons licences will be displayed through ALA tools. The ALA will attribute each such image to the photographer.


We are proud to announce our Image Contest Winners. Our regular contests feature a broad range of varying entry themes that will allow users to showcase the Best of EOL.

Congratulations to the Winners from our recent contest Complementary Colors:

WINNER:
CRT_085 by kibuyu


RUNNER-UP:
Dermatobranchus sp. by Vishal Bhave


To learn more about our image contests and see past winners please visit Best of EOL Images.


Images posted in this group will be featured on the EOL web site, as long as they adhere to the following criteria:

The image is set as public

The image is licensed with one of the following licenses:
-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-SA)
-Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC)
-Attribution Creative Commons (CC-BY)
-Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA)

-Images marked with NoDeriv creative commons licenses (CC-BY-ND and CC-BY-NC-ND) or All Rights Reserved are NOT going to be usable by EOL, so there's no point to post them to this group.

The image is tagged using one or more machine tags, including the most specific name for the organism:
- The machine tag for binomial scientific name ("taxonomy:binomial=*") is preferred
- The machine tag for genus name (taxonomy:genus=*) is strongly recommended
- The machine tag for common name (taxonomy:common=*) is also recommended

Be sure to use quotes (avoid word processor smart quotes) around machine tags with spaces in them.

*replace with the name

See the complete list of EOL-friendly machine tags.


Encyclopedia of Life's computer program will regularly check this Flickr group for any new or modified images and place them on pages (if the above rules are followed). The image will appear as 'unvetted' as we need to validate that the tag correctly identifies the organism in the photo.

To see unvetted images on EOL you will likely need to change your information setting from "Authoritative" to "All."


To invite others to join the group and add to the pool, you can use this text:
Start copy here>>>>>
This photo would make an excellent addition to the <a href="http://www.eol.org">Encyclopedia of Life</a>. Please consider adding it to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life/"> EOL Images</a> group.

EOL needs images for all 1.8 million known species, so you are also invited to share any of your other good photos, too.
<<<<<Stop copy here.


If you are concerned about applying the CC licenses to your photos, try one of these strategies:
- Upload only medium resolution versions and keep hi resolution versions for commercial licensing.
- Upload a sample from your collection, with a link in the photo caption to where potential clients can find more.

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