Submit your Cyclelicious feature photo

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Every day I blog On occasion, I'll try to select a Cyclelicious Feature Photo. This photo will remain at the top of the page until the next Feature Photo is selected at least the end of the day.

I browse through Flickr for most of my material. If you'd like to be sure I see your image, upload it to Flickr and give it the tag "cyclelicious."

Here are some tips to improve the chances of your photo being selected --

• The photo should be technically good: In focus; good contrast, lighting and color; good optics on the camera.


• I really like shallow depth-of-field. Make sure your subject stands out.


• Tight cropping. Cut out all the extraneous junk. A wide angle of a beautiful mountain scene with a tiny biker on a tiny trail probably won't make the cut.


• A descriptive caption. Please tell me who, what, when, where, how and why. If the photo is from a race, for example, tell me who won and/or link to a blog entry or news article about the event.


• Action is better than static. I'm not interested in bike porn. People are better than just-bikes. Your bike leaning on a parking meter is boring.


• It should still look decent at 240 pixels across. I'll link to your larger photo.


• A 240 pixel wide image should be available for me to hot link from somewhere such as flickr.com.


• Please give your photo a short but descriptive title. "DSC14520" is not a descriptive title.


• It doesn't have to be a pure photo. Heavily edited photos and other image artwork will also be considered.


• The image must be yours. Please don't dump Nike Ads into the photostream.


• There's no need to resubmit a photo to the stream. If I see a photo I like but can't post it immediately, it gets clipped and put into a queue of pending photos.

For my part, I will link back to the photo on Flickr.com (as required in Flickr's Terms of Use), and I'll link to your site if you put a URL in your caption. Remember, I'll watch for your photos with the "cyclelicious" tag through an RSS feed from Flickr.com.

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