Daft How-To-Use-Flickr question

[Nik da Greek]

I'm hoping some of the long-term (and/or wiser) Flickr users might be able to help me out here... I joined there when Photobucket started self-harming but I've never seemed to be able to get up to speed with how some of it works... I always just dumped my pics and left them but Flickr seems much more of a community-based thing. I take hundreds of photos of cars at shows and such, and keep getting requests from such-and-such Owners Club to add a photo to their group

How? (and not in a Fred Dineage way)

Do you actually have to join their group to do so? No disrespect, but I don't really want to end up in loads of groups of beardy BSA enthusiasts counting rivets or arguing about what the correct sort of footpeg rubber was for 1954... y'know, the specifics of it all that we all obsess about but no-one outside our chosen marque gives a four-X about

Any advice gratefully received

[Craikeybaby]

You can either ignore it, or join the group and share your photo. Groups on Flickr aren't too invasive, I rarely even look at the homepage/feed.

[Nik da Greek]

So there's no simple way of doing it without joining the relevant group then? Sounds a bit... well... time-intensive

[Nigel_O]

You can add as many photos as you like without joining a single group. This is fine if all you're looking for is a hosting site to allow you to post links to places like PH

However, if you want to show off your photos to a wider community, then groups is the best way - simply choose which groups you want to be a member of, join, then add photos (there's usually a daily or weekly limit on the volume to stop people flooding the group)

Groups is also a good way of seeing other photos of the same genre, which can be useful for discovering tips and techniques from other people

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Nik da Greek said:

So there's no simple way of doing it without joining the relevant group then? Sounds a bit... well... time-intensive

If you join the group, you can select the photographs you want to add to each specific group in the upload stage.

You don't have to visit each individual group and add the photographs. You can also place a photograph in multiple groups too, all in the upload stage.

Not as time consuming as it seems.