Photo Galleries — Status & Download Availability
The photo gallery is being consists of 3 three sections.
Full Resolution Versions of the above photos as well as all submitted photos suitable for download and printing are available on this Picasa Photo Page.
The task of populating these galleries is a work in progress as I get time to go through submitted photos.
Submitting Additional Photos
Participants are also invited to go through their photos and submit potential additions. I’m suggesting rhe following procedure:
- Check what’s already in the gallery and submit photos which either show something new or are an improvement over what’s there.
- Submit your photos. See this post for details.
- Hopefully, no one will object if I exercise my judgment on which photos to include. I think they should be representative and of good quality
I would like to either be able to download high resolution copies, or have a master copy made to a CD or DVD for distribution. That way I can add the pictures to my own slide show or paper album.
I’d be willing to help with the project or distribution.
I’ll set up something to support this soon
The album within the School website is a good place to start because many people will want to go to the main site o see the summary shots with captions.
For the download option, I would suggest putting photos there and let people take what they want. There could be more photos there than in the album.
In the meantime, I am culling my photos from three weeks of travel.
David, Doug
Further to this:
I would also be interested in seeing pictures from the others who were there.
David, am only sending Doug about 25% of the ~750 pictures I took in Metz to the website as, with good reason, Doug doesn’t want to be overwelmed with my downloads, which may be duplicates and/or not be of interest to the majority of visitors. Because of this I have not sent duplicates of the same scene but with different people. This, plus Doug’s parcing of the pictures I did send, may mean that some of the group will not see all of their own or their friend’s/relative’s images in the web album.
Doug, if such a site were created would it be big enough for everyone’s pictures? Would we be able to FTP to and from this site?
Or as an option: as my Metz total adds up to about 1Gb of pictures in all, I’m not sure how to overcome a large download problem except to send a disk with all of my pictures to those who want them. I am willing to do this, however, I will need people to email their mailing address to me if they want a disk. My current email address is listed in the web’s alumni list.
My plan, as David states, is to post a representative selection of photos in web galleries. Submitted photos will start to be added soon.
As for including everyone’s photos on an ftp site or similar, this is certainly feasible from a memory point of view (There is lots of room for Gigabytes of photos). If one of you has thoughts on how things might be organized, I can make the space available
It seems to me that there are some issues to think about. I could just leave the ftp site open with all submissions and this would accomplish the objective — sort of. However, this may not accomplish much as users would have to search through hundreds, or even thousands, of photos with cryptic file names like IMG_0903.jpg so that, in the end, the only way to browse them would be to download the whole mess. Will people really want to do this?
Doug,
First, I think we should have separate folders for each person submitting the pictures. If we were to download using our names in the folder name (just as we have done for the pictures already submitted) that would establish the first (highest) criteria and does not require any further effort on your part. The sender could also use subfolder names to describe the overall content of the folders. My personal favorites are “People /sub/Kids or /sub/Friends, etc; “Places”; “Things; “Critters” and Miscellaneous”. But Walking Tour, Bus Tour, Sites, Cathedral, Chateau etc. would do just fine for this.
For the file names (as you saw in my downloads), my standard first criteria is to use the date the picture was taken–which can be seen in “View/Details/Date Picture Taken” under “More” after right-clicking the column header. (If you sort on this column, you can select multiple file names of the same date and explorer will automatically number them sequentially, which is a great help because your filenames will then be in chronological order.) Then I add a broad key word or words in the file name, after the sequential numbers, which is my secondary file criteria and can be “searched” for. I did not do the keywords for the ones I downloaded to you because I included captions for each picture in the accompaning emails and that amount of detail makes a cumbersome file name. However, eventually I will be adding the key word(s) to the files on my computer.
Hopefully this makes sense and isn’t to confusing. I have about 40,000 pictures using this convention and I can usually find the file I am looking for in a reasonable amount of time–without using a third party software package, only Windows Explorer…
I’m looking into a solution for all this and may have found something. Will let you know soon
Doug,
Wonderful site. I was wondering if you could add a link or button on the photo pages to take one back to the main page of the website? This would make it easier, for example, to switch from one set of photos to another, or to go to another topic …
Take care.
Steve
There is a link at the top of each page. Did you want another one at the bottom?