Dive Report Photo Galleries

[Alison Boler]

I'm thinking that with photo galleries on the horizon for these forums, we could put them to good use for trip reports.

Some people (not me :D ) are better with the camera than the pen. Although, come to think of it, after some of my recent efforts, perhaps I should rethink that assessment....

Anyway..

Haven't really been able to cater for those sorts of reports too well before, take up a lot of room. slow load, I have to be very careful with how I deploy them etc etc.

However, if we get the ability for you to load pictures into your own gallery on site, then I could link to the gallery from the location page. So, for instance, you take a load of pix of St Kilda, I link to the gallery from the St Kilda page, just like I do with the written reports.

It is often the case that people send me some really great pictures with their trip reports, but unfortunately there aren't enough words in the report to sensibly deploy all the pictures, but galleries would get around this.

Not just photo trip reports either. Often travelling divers are as interested in the above water scenery than underwater shots. What does the beach look like? The bar area? Restaurants?

So, just a heads up to the photographers out there to get sorting through ready for when Keith and his cohorts give the word. Hopefully not too long.

Any other ideas for travel related use of photo galleries???

Allie

[Keith Lawrence]

So, just a heads up to the photographers out there to get sorting through ready for when Keith and his cohorts give the word. Hopefully not too long. Ah! In this fast moving environment things change literally by the hour :eek: We have some geek type difficulties behind the secenes that may mean we have to put some restrictions on photos, or worst-case actually delay their implementation. I honestly don't know yet, I'm waiting for some technical advice.

Rest assured that it is our firm intention to provide a photo Gallery, you've asked for one, we want you to have one. But there's some stuff going on back here of a highly geeky and technical nature that means we may have to delay. Sorry folks, I'm doing my very best to get this going, but right now I can't make any promises because I simply do not know - I'll keep you posted, keep you informed, you'll know as soon as I do! Even if it's a "no, not just now" then all is not lost, you can have attachments on these forums, not as good as a proper photo gallery but better than nothing and miles better than what we had before.

Sorry about that folks, these are brand new systems running on a brand new web server, the whole lot is less than a month old. It's manic back here as we try to sort out a myriad of minor glitches, we'll get there, we're doing our best - but you're just going to have to bear with us for a short while to give us a chance to sort it all out. Allie was right BTW, she was going on technical advice from me that was unfortunately well out-of-date as it was at least 12 hours old (yup, things happen that quickly), so as usual... I'M the one to blame, it's me who you should be giving the hard time to :rolleyes:

Cheers

Keith L