After recently smashing through the 20,000 images milestone we now have a huge collection of outstanding photos, but we still want to see many, many more
With spring just around the corner, now's a great time to start looking for those photo opportunities to add to the gallery, and maybe even next year's calendar
In preparation for many new uploads, we're currently working on a bit of a spring clean that should help to clear the way and reorganise the gallery for lots of new images. During the past year we've built up a massive colleciton of some the UK's most common species, and we've now got literally hundreds of images of grey squirrels, robins, mallards etc. To help keep the populations under control, and give some of the rarer species a fighting chance, we're currently reducing the numbers of the more common species - just like in the real world
As well as carrying out a cull at the moment we'll also be adding some form of contraception to help keep the population of common species under control
The usual standards will be in place for uploading all images - please
click here for more info - but we'll also be raising the bar for photographs where there are already many similar pictures. If you notice that some of your previous uploads are missing then it may be due to the above reason...sorry
However, in the long run it should make for an even better gallery that is easier to search and navigate.
The good news is that in addition to the above, over the next few weeks we also plan to add:
- A gallery editors 'pick of the week' page to bring some of the older uploads into view
- A facility to sell images online
- Monthly photography competitions with the odd prize or two
Thanks for all your help and contributions and here's looking forward to seeing many more fantastic photos in 2007
Stu