Special Olympics events around the world have yielded an incredible bounty of really, really good photos, and hundred of the best photos have been posted on Flickr for distribution to our regions and their programs.
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A Deep Source of Photos. The SOI Photo Stream has many categories of photos for regions and programs to use. Go to the listing of sets.
How to Download Photos
To get to our listing of sets, go to (and please bookmark) this URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soi-photo-stream/sets/ There are 70+ sets there, including photos from some events before the Athens 2011 World Games.
All photos are at highest possible resolution. To download any one of them, select the photo by clicking on it. When the larger version is displayed, look in the upper left corner. You will see a button called Actions. Click that, and you will see "See all sizes" The sizes range from thumbnail size to full resolution.
There is a "Download" link directly above the listing of sizes. Pick the size you want and download it.
Quick Facts on Flickr
SOI Photo Stream is a Flickr Pro account
All photos are in full-resolution and smaller
No password is necessary
Photos are organized in sets
Click "Actions", then "See All Sizes" to download
Next Steps for Flickr
This site will continue to be our method of distribution of photos for regions and programs. SOI will add selected photos to fill out our sports categories to include fantastic winter sports photos.
If you have questions or suggestions, you can email Will Schermerhorn at SOI.