Suggestion for photograph area

Have you had a look at the PLACES section , or the BLOGS section , you'll find 1000's of photo's.

Marc,

as per the yearly EO photocomp, the blog facility gives you the opportunity for photos and relevant info. The blogs can be searched by specific catagory such as "Wildlife" or "Sunsets". A very good tool. I have over 2000 photos loaded to the site.

Cheers Mick

Hi Marc
These were my exact words to Damian when he used to work for David and Michelle. Sure it is OK to say just look up places to find these photos, BUT if you do not know where the place is, then where do you start to look.

Damian also stated that at that time there was an issue with the amount on space that it would take up on their server.

I think that it would be great to have a members only photo gallery and from that gallery it could be further divided into sub galleries, eg wildlife, wild flowers, Sunsets, National Parks, Old Buildings, etc and there then could be direct links to the place or area where the photos were taken.

You have again planted the seed and if enough seeds are planted, who knows that something may get off of the ground one day.


All the best and keep dry up your way Marc and don't get bogged.

Cheers

Stephen

You guys must know what I am working on and raise these posts at exactly the right time. If you notice in Places now you will see a new gallery system for all of the images, this is also partly rolled out in blogs. I am in the process of moving all our system images into the new gallery system and we will be able to easily implement these types of features into this gallery.

At the moment it has been targeted to the places system and blogs but I like the comment about tagging images to bird, tree or other tags that would allow the images to sorted into areas. I will think some more about this and see what I can implement.

The new gallery system also supports ratings and this has been installed in the places system. I hope to have more of the gallery roll-out done in the next few weeks and will post progress via the newsletters as it is developed however at the moment places is finished and a good example can be seen here: Places Ayres Rock.

Marc

Fully support having the photographs a bit easier to access.

One time I plodded all the way back through the old blogs and found heaps of great photos and info. It was a bit cumbersome but can be done.

There could be an issue with some scenery photographs if we get too much into GPS tagging everything.

When out on the CSR this year with my travel mate, Roger, we had a lot of time on our hands and got to talking about the technology of presenting photographs in ordered ways. I was rather unconvinced. Not in the technology or the result that might be achieved, more with "why?" His vision was (and I am understating it somewhat) of organised clusters of photographs so you could do a virtual tour of the country on the internet seeing what features were at each location by the photographs. Almost a Google Earth Streetview on a landscape scale.

I can see advantages in that. But I am not motivated to contribute photographs in that organised a manner. I have done four large blogs and uploaded about 400 photographs. By and large the photographs are selected to convey a personal story. In fact the first blog was originally presented only as photos but I succumbed to requests to add some text. My photographs will never be presented like this - "at GPS coordinate 123 xyz this scenery can be seen". In fact there are some photographs I would never have posted with exact GPS coordinates because of concerns of vandalism should exact location of some things become known. We are living in an age where we can pinpoint sticks and rocks. I just don't want my photographs doing that. For many of the photographs it is enough that they were taken out there somewhere.

I think I might be in the minority on this.

Flynnie