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As Cycle of Songs will provide a great opportunity to showcase and celebrate the talent and diversity of Cambridge, we want as many local people of all ages as possible to get involved. One of the ways we would like people to participate is by taking and sharing their photography of the Cycle of Songs' events and the places in Cambridge that are on the cyclists' route. You can add photos of bikes in Cambridge, locations on the route, the Tour de F itself in Cambridge, and, of course, choir rehearsals and performances.

You can do that by adding your photographs to the Cycle of Songs' Flickr Group. We will also be uploading images of Cambridge, past and present, and would like you to join us in sharing your own images of the city, its citizens, and its history. We have instructions below to guide you on how best to find and share and download photographs from over 5,000 of our tagged photos in this Flickr Group.

Firstly, do please follow this link to see what has already been uploaded and add your own https://www.flickr.com/groups/cycleofsongs/

For a selection of photos that showcase the project please scroll to the bottom of this page.

GUIDANCE ON HOW TO SEARCH FOR PICTURES IN FLICKR

As we have a lot of photos on the Flickr site we have tagged them so that you can easily find photos from different rehearsals, recordings, and public events.

The following steps will explain how to search for specific pictures within from the group.

Tags and Keywords

All of the photos have been tagged and titled with relevant descriptions to make finding certain photos easier. If you know you were at a certain rehearsal, recording, or event you can search for photos by venue name, location, date, or specific tag e.g Cambridge Junction, Romsey Mill, 13th June, etc

Instructions on how to search withing the Flickr group:

1. Type in a keyword or tag in the search bar, located in the upper right hand corner of the screen. As you type, a drop-down menu will appear. Once you have typed your keyword or tag click on the 'This group' option.

2. Once you have clicked on 'This group' it will take you to a second page where all the photos listed under that keyword can be viewed. From here you can click on an image to view it as a larger picture or scroll through and view all the images from that event.

GUIDANCE ON HOW TO DOWNLOAD PICTURES FROM FLICKR

We have made all our pictures available free to download and share, although if you publish them online or in print it would require a credit to Historyworks. Do feel free to share them with friends, family, and across social media. You can follow the directions below to download them.

1. If you click on the image you want to view it will open another page with a larger view of it. From this page you will see a small icon in the lower right hand corner (highlighted in a red box in the image below).

2. If you click on this icon it will bring up a menu offering different sizes. From this menu you can select the size of the image you want to download. Once you have selected the image size, click it and you will be able to download it to your hard-drive.

GUIDANCE ON HOW TO UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO FLICKR

If you have a Flickr account and would like to upload some of your images to the Flickr page, you can follow these steps:

1. Select the 'Join Group' button on the Cycle of Songs Flickr page.

2. You will then be able to add photos by selecting 'Add Photos'.

3. From this page you can add photos that you have uploaded to your own Flickr Photostream by selecting the desired images and uploading. This is limited to 6 photos at a time but you can repeat this step.

4. When you label your images we would ask that you follow these rules as it helps us identify and find uploaded materials.

Title:
A relevant but short description of the image

Description:
Credit the source, photographer or collection that the image has come from along with any further context or information about the image or what it depicts.

Tags:
Add any keywords that are relevant to the image, so that they are easy to search for. You can add multiple tags by using a space between them.

Owner Settings
Select ‘edit’ and the following options will appear in a drop down menu

License:
Select 'Attribution Creative Commons'

Privacy:
Select ‘Publicly visible’