Send in your photos!

A Tiny Red Dot is officially open for submissions! Please do take part and send your photos over. Tell us what Singapore means to you and how you feel about this nation from your own perspective. Love something about Singapore that you would like to tell the world about? Want to share the things about Singapore which make you embarrassed to talk about with your friends from abroad? Wish to tell the public about your goals and vision for the future of Singapore? Send in your photos now!

To submit a photo, simply email your photo as an attachment to the following email address: cool86added2blog@photos.flickr.com. Use the subject line to give your photo submission a title, and the body of the email to give it a description as well as include your personal particulars. More info here.

FAQs

1) What is A tiny Red Dot?
A Tiny Red Dot is an online photo exhibition about Singapore. Visitors are encouraged to take part in this photo exhibition by submitting a photo (or photos, if you wish) that potrays the feelings of participants about what Singapore truly means to them. See the 'About' page.

2) What on earth is it for?
Exploring how individuals view and feel towards Singapore, A Tiny Red Dot aims to encourage reflection on how we can stand up and make things count for this nation which you and I may have come to regard as our home.

3) Who can take part?
Anyone! You can take part whether or not you're a Singaporean. Your photos have to be shot in Singapore though.

4) OK, I want to take part in this photo exhibition. How should I proceed?
To submit a photo, simply email your photo as an attachment to the following email address: cool86added2blog@photos.flickr.com. Use the subject line to give your photo submission a title, and the body of the email to give it a description as well as include your personal particulars. For more info, please view this page.

5) Help! I would like to take part, but I've no idea what to submit.
Worry not, just send your photos over if you feel that these photos contain something about Singapore that you would like to share with the rest of us here. How about prominent local landmarks and tourist attractions? Local culture and heritage? The arts? Sports? People in the streets? We'll accept any photos which you feel that would allow visitors to get to know your feelings and views about Singapore, regardless of whether these are positive or negative. Please don't submit inappropriate content though. Take a look at this page.

6) I think that A Tiny Red Dot is cool. How can I help?
Tell people you know about A Tiny Red Dot and get them to particpate. Also, feel free to add your comments to the photo submission and contribute to the discussion.

Keep the file size of your photo small too, because we have only limited bandwidth to use over at Flickr.com, our photos hosting service.

7) How do I contact A Tiny Red Dot?
Email a.tiny.red.dot@gmail.com.

How To Participate

To take part in the A Tiny Red Dot photo exhibition, just follow these simple steps.

To submit a photo, simply email your photo as an attachment to the following email address:

cool86added2blog@photos.flickr.com

Use the subject line to give your photo submission a title, and the body of the email to give it a description as well as include your personal particulars. An example of a submission would be:

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Salute!



My favourite at every year's NDP is always the helicopter flypast. I just feel a wonderful sense of patriotism swelling in my chest whenever I see the Singapore flag against the blue sky high up there.

Michael, 20
Student

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Get it? It's that simple! Please do not submit any photo that is more than 5 MB in size though. And please don't be an idiot and submit inapproriate content such as porn and photos that may be offensive to any racial group or religion. No violent or gory photos too, please. Inappropriate submissions will be edited or removed.

Be careful with copyright issues too. Submit only your photos, not others' unless you've permission from the copyright owner. When you submit any materials to A Tiny Red Dot, we take it that you have given us permission and rights to use them. Note that all materials found on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Meaning you can copy, distribute or even make make derivative works based on the photos and text found here, provided that you give the original author credit, not use this work for commercial purposes, and distribute any derivative works under a license identical to this one.

Ready to particpate in A Tiny Red Dot? Send in your photos and descriptions right now to cool86added2blog@photos.flickr.com!

About A Tiny Red Dot

A Tiny Red Dot is an online photo exhibition about Singapore. Visitors are encouraged to take part in this photo exhibition by submitting a photo (or photos, if you wish) that potrays the feelings of participants about what Singapore truly means to them.

Exploring how individuals feel towards this nation, A Tiny Red Dot aims to encourage reflection on what are the things that matter most to us as Singaporeans. Hopefully, for those of us who call Singapore 'home', we'll learn to appreciate both the 'goodness' and 'badness' of this country. And stand up and take a stake in shaping the future of Singapore accordingly to our individual visions of how and what Singapore should be.

Alamak! Although it sounds like government propaganda, it's not; you're really welcome to share and tell your Singapore Story through your own lenses. Just don't be dumb and submit inapproriate content.

To learn how to take part in this photo exhibition and submit your photos, please see this page.