Time to vote!
Meanwhile, back at the office: It was an incredibly hard job to narrow all of the wonderful Wegman-esque photos down to just eight, but we did it. You can see a few below, but check out Trisha’s Facebook page to see all eight and participate in the fun. Voting is open through Thursday, November 14. Just “like” the photo(s) of your choice! (WARNING: It will be very hard to pick just one!) You do have to have a Facebook account to vote, but it’s definitely worth your while to look even if you don’t have Facebook. Thank you to everyone who participated!
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I guess there is no way to post all the photos somewhere? Possibly as a blog posting? It seems a shame when I’m sure there are so many good ones.
Hi Ben – Oh, do I wish there were a way. There were hundreds of photos submitted, many of which are high resolution. Unfortunately the blog (and even Facebook) can’t handle all of them.
Hi Katie. Just out of curiousity, what do you mean by the blog can’t handle all of them? I would think the server side capabilities would be fine. In terms of not wanting the user to download all those pixels at once and also not cluttering up the blog, you could have one link in the blog that links to a whole bunch of pages, with say 10 images on each page (and these pages wouldn’t have to be posted as a blog).
Flickr account maybe?
If there are too many photos within one blog post, the traffic to the blog can crash our whole site. (Unfortunately we’ve learned from experience.) Twenty separate pages with links on the blog should work, but would take a lot of time. If time permits, I will definitely try Flickr! Thanks for the suggestions!
The other one I’ve used and you can create a whole picture album and then share the link via the blog is Google’s Picassa. Then you’re simply linking to it, but it still takes a lot of time to upload all the photos to the album. It would be nice to see them all, says one who entered but didn’t make the final cut (so it’s not an unbiased plea).
You can taker high res photo and “reduce” it to 72dpi with free software. 72 dpi will look as good on the computer screen as a high res phot. Extremely easy. Free software available easily. You can take a huge file and turn 2mb into 75kb.
Yeah and no pressure eh, I was just thinking out loud.
I so understand everyone wanting to see all the photos. I can say from experience that it is simple to reduce a high res photo to a lower res (Katie and I do it all the time), but try doing it for 200 photographs! Flickr or Shutterfly could be a great idea, but I have to admit I’ve had some struggles with them too. We’ll look into it for sure, meanwhile, thanks to Katie for all the work on the photos so far, and thanks to you all for submitting so many great pics. (I haven’t seen them all either, just the ones that made the final, so we’re all in the same boat here.) I have my favorite, but I’m not saying which one it is until the votes are all in. Tee Hee.
I think there are batch image processing programs available. Infranview and photoshop I think can both change the resolution on a batch of photos.
I use iPhoto and it’s simple to export photos with different res, and once you do it saves the setting so every photo after is just “file-export” and they are resized. I’m sure other photo-handling programs have somethign similar?
That said, it is still a lot of work so I can understand the decision. 🙂