I have to learn how to post photos at some point, so now is as good a time as any.

My brother got a new camera and sent his old one to me. Still learning how to use it, but with a little help from iPhoto, this one didn't turn out too badly....

that shot of the montmartre scene is gorgeous...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

Empty pea pod

You can't be me, I'm taken

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

Took this this afternoon for the photoblog. A Helsinki tram of the older type barrels down Makelankatu on its way downtown.

You can't be me, I'm taken

LEP: this is one of the new low-riders downtown. Nostalgia tinged with Terminator ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

The typewriter of the Homesick Advice Bureau, an UrbanLab project in Luxemburg.

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

"Are you interested in solar energy?"

Place Candolle, Montpellier

Luck often plays an important part in photography - we just happened to walk into this church in Montpellier at what turned out to be the ideal time - and there it was. Was this a sign? :-)

Taken with a ... oops :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

have Paris.

The new ligne 2, Montpellier

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

A bit of photoshopping and cropping to evoke a mood

You can't be me, I'm taken

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

This is in the Stonewall bar, which saw the beginnings of the gay rights movement - a very important place.  We made and left cranes of peace everywhere we went and gave one to the barman here.  These cocktails (that they drink in Sex and the City) were topped up all afternoon and into the evening, some we paid for but most were free.  It lead to my most embarrassing drunken episode ever, which fortunately I have no memory of.  A very eventful day.  I slept off my hangover in Central Park.

Technically not a very good photo, but it has a great story to it.

The first thing is, it's not the pixel size that determines loading time, it's the Kb size - in other words, picture quality.

If your original photo is, say, 800 x 600 (top limit for free accounts on Photobucket), and you post it with width="400", you'll get a smaller display but the browser still has to load all the bytes of the original, and that may be quite a lot.

The best thing is to do a reduced copy using a photo editor (Irfanview is free and adequate). Specify the width you want (can be 500 or 600 for ET, 800 can push the column wide) and also try out lower quality settings till you get a perfectly good picture (to the naked eye), but for as few kilobytes as possible (certainly under 100 Kb).

Put the reduced and the good copies on your photo server. Post the reduced one into the diary as a link to the good one.

The html is:

<a href="[URL of the good pic]"><img src="[URL of the thumbnail]"></a>

If you've pre-dimensioned your reduced pic at the required width, no need to use the width attribute in the img command.

It's very easy to copy the URLs from Photobucket (and, I presume, from other pic servers).

Some people may have read this, others not. ;)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

Cocktail on the beach - it's a Nice life :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

had a green filter on by mistake....ended up quite liking it!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

the flare at the bottom isn't good,but I didn't want to loose the hand.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

http://www.infoclimat.fr/multimedia/photolive.php?photoid=39872

Couchant

Fin d'une belle journée ensoleillée près de ce petit village empreint de l'histoire du Catharisme et perché sur une crête dominant la plaine de Revel.

Pas le moindre nuage dans le ciel et la transparence particulière de l'air, annonciatrice de vent d'Autan, fait apparaître comme par magie la chaîne des Pyrénées pourtant distante de 100 km à vol d'oiseau ; le sommet arrondi à gauche est le Mont Valier (2838m) situé en haute Ariège.

Bonne soirée à toutes et à tous.

I was thinking in terms of the October FotoFest that I took part in last year with thumbnails and a bit of blurb on the photo.

Depends whether people would like to have larger images on the diary posts to avoid the need for clicking on every one to see it properly.

If you right click on the photos posted in this diary and go to properties, you can see the file size in kb. I guess that some people are unclear as to how to reduce file size as opposed to reducing picture width.

So do we have thumbnails for all pictures posted or do we make clear the guidlelines on pixel width and file size?  

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

you are the media you consume.

London Carnaval 2006

(from one of the "management"...)

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

Statue of William the Conquerer at Falaise, Normandy

When I took the rear view with him towering over the church I had in mind that people like William controlled the Church and used it for political purposes. Later I read this in a book I bought in Falaise Castle:

There could scarcely be a better example of William's political skill, for at a stroke he had managed to get the Church to give him the monopoly of violence in Normandy.

1066: The Year of the Three Battles, F. McLynn