Some recent AK photo's (Barrow, Fox: post office, reputation, commercial)

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by warptman

I don't like thumbnails...

Be glad to post the full photo, but haven't found out how yet. IM me and tell me what is required to do that.

Thanks

[Grannysroost]

Better yet, maybe somebody can explain?? I'd like to know too

[karfar]

Originally Posted by Grannysroost

Better yet, maybe somebody can explain?? I'd like to know too

To be honest, I can't even remember how to do it til I actually do it. If you have a photobucket account, it'll probably help.

[karfar]

ok, hold on....

[karfar]

Ok, it worked. Here's what I did....first get a photobucket account. Then you upload the photos to that account. Then you go in to your account, choose whatever pic you want & then click on the IMG code (copy it) that is at the bottom of the pic, there will be like four other choices, then hit post reply here & hit paste & even though you won't see it yet (it'll say all that mumbo jumbo about html & all that), once you click post & look at your post, the pic should be there. Now, if someone has an easier way, please tell ME!!!

[warptman]

Yea, what Karfar said...

[Grannysroost]

Thank you!!! That is a big help...will try tomorrow, and nice pic Karfar - Where is that????

[karfar]

Originally Posted by Grannysroost

Thank you!!! That is a big help...will try tomorrow, and nice pic Karfar - Where is that????

My family's place up north in Rhinelander, it's my happy place!

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by warptman

I don't like thumbnails...

Thumbnails were bad enough already, and now it seems the server has been changed and they way the show up (at least on the web browser that I use) is even worse than it was.

Thumbnails have one major (dis)advantage though, in that they are archived by the City-Data Forum server, and will forever more remain as part of the article they are attached to. You can't get rid of them, but you don't have to maintain the archive either. I'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse! :-)

Using the IMG directive and a URL to flickr or photobucket or whatever causes City-Data to fetch the image from wherever the URL points to every single time someone accesses the thread it is in. (If you want high hit counts on your web site, just post images to this thread. You'll get a hit even if nobody looks at the image.)

There are other tricks to posting images that may or may not be useful. First and probably most useful is knowing that the image should not be larger than 900x900 pixels, because that is as big as City-Data will display it, and if it is larger there will be a message saying it was reduced in size. Their size reduction looks okay, but you really do want to see what it looks like before you post it, and that means reducing it yourself. Generally that should be the one and only time a JPEG image is ever edited, because each edit causes degradation of the image with JPEG "artifacts".

The way I post pictures is perhaps a little bit techie, but maybe not. I put them in one particular directory on my webpage. Then in an article here I use the [img] directive. Here is what it looks like (fixed so that is doesn't actually do it, and lets you see it instead:

[img]http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson/akforum/7783.jpg[/img]

When I do it for real, this is what happens:

I thought you all might get a kick out of seeing that picture, or at least you will when I tell you what these crazy folks are doing! See that old blond gal, in a white t-shirt, dead center... That is our famous Fran Tate, owner of Pepe's North of the Border Mexican Restaurant... celebrating her soon to come 80th birthday (it is in early October, but jumping in the ocean isn't such a hot idea then). She gives out hundreds of certificates every year for the "Polar Bear Club" to any tourist who will take a dunk in the ocean, so this year she said she would do it and wanted 80 people to join her. I think she may have had 50!

The men in blue on the left are the US Coast Guard. Incidentally they were offered up as a group by the senior officer to help Fran, but as you can see she brought her own helpers. The lady in pink is Karen Hegyi the Magistrate. Fran has two of her cooks giving her a hand, and that old guy heading for them is actually a good samaritan... He is Tom Saxton (a paramedic) who happens to be the Assistant Fire Chief for the North Slope Borough. He was half way out of the water, and in some distress himself, when he thought it appeared that Fran was having difficulty and he went back to check on her. She was fine, he darned near froze to death...

[Grannysroost]

Looking at that leaves me at a loss for words to decribe it, especially when looking at the ice.."Refreshing" "Invigorating" "Flippin nutz", but thanks for the tips too Floyd.