How to Share Your Summer Photographs on Patch

Did you get a great fireworks shot at the Independence Day Extravaganza? Snap some memorable photos at Heritage Fest or Relay for Life?

Lemont Patch photographer Rob Krueger and I have had a busy week with all the recent summer festivities in Lemont, but that doesn't mean you can't share your photographs with the community, too. In fact, readers can upload photographs and videos on any Lemont Patch article, but reader contributions are appreciated even more for big community events like the Fourth of July, Relay for Life or Heritage Fest.

Here's how you do it:

1) You must be registered on Patch and logged in to upload photographs and videos, so do that first at lemont.patch.com/login. (If you're signing up for a new account, remember that our Terms of Use do not allow aliases. We encourage people to use their first and last names.)

2) After you log in, go to the article you want to use. Click on "Add your photos & videos" in the lower right corner of the media box. The system will ask you to browse for the files and choose which ones to upload in a format similar to what you might use for your e-mail or Facebook.

3) Feel free to write captions for the photographs so we know who is in the photograph and what they are doing.

4) If you have any trouble, feel free to e-mail me the photographs instead and I'll upload them for you. My e-mail is amanda@patch.com.

Thanks again for reading Lemont Patch. It was such a pleasure to meet so many readers at the Independence Day Extravaganza last week. After a short vacation, I'm back in town and ready to get back to all things Lemont.

— Amanda

Lemont Patch's summer photo galleries:

• Heritage Fest (July 9)

• Relay for Life (July 8-9)

• (July 3)

• (July 3)