On 4/16/2017 10:46 PM, ChrisB wrote:
Thanks, Moose.
I know that Google Photos is a way of storing and displaying photos that is
more cost-effective than iCloud (which is what I use),
Cost had nothing to do with it. Really, I didn't even think of that until you mentioned it. I have scads of unused web
space. It's about 'thumb' size/presentation and especially about how it works on mobile devices.
It's in a way like web galleries vs. books. I hand someone a physical book, and they look at and engage with the images.
I send them a link to a web gallery with the same images and they mostly don't. I know, because I've handed books of the
same images and it's like they are seeing them for the first time. I suspect that's largely true - that they got bored
with them in the gallery and didn't go through them all.
Many people are used to relating to images in the way they are presented in the photo apps on their mobile devices,
where the images always fill the screen in at least one direction, they can finger swipe through them, use two fingers
to zoom in, etc. They visit and show us where they've been, what's happening to family, mutual friends, etc. with images
on their phones/tablets.
The Google apps fit seamlessly into this way of engaging with images for them.
On this very forum, I recall someone saying they couldn't navigate my MooseFoto site galleries, because they couldn't
figure out how to go forward and back through the images. This on a site where there are 'Forward' and 'Back' buttons on
each page, small thumbnails for the last and next few images to click on and clicking on the left or right of the image
goes back or forward. I imagine them sliding their fingers across the images . . .
I'm not trying to change your mind and way of doing things, just sharing my own
experiences.
but I like the idea of WordPress and its flexibility – I’ll persevere for the
moment.
I wish you the best of luck with finding the right combo.
Apropos what I said above, I hate to admit it, but I don't look at all your images full size. Is it just laziness,
click, click again to go back, click on the next one, repeat? Or is it also something more subtle, a break out of the
flow of the images? Dunno, just pondering.
For now, it's a battle I avoid. It literally takes a couple of seconds to drag new images over into Google and family
and friends who didn't look at my conventional browser based galleries look at the images on Google. No, I don't like
the inability to order, annotate, etc. but huge time and frustration savings, combined with better viewing outcomes, has
won me over - for now.
More confession; I have a personal bias that any image worth it's salt should be able to stand on its own, sans
explication of subject, context, etc. Not that the words may not add something, sometimes a great deal, but that an
image that doesn't work without them might as well stay home. OTOH, they may detract. When I show this image, most
people are intrigued, imagine it to be a photograph something other than what it is, rather than an image I have
found/created, on its own.
<https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOCaMKlf8nhaRj-PRdOCc1Ht92GhBb7HFYQh2EddNhfbRccyzaYatgYnNj-cqoVfA/photo/AF1QipObeL21jPnP1aFJnCad7RmhU1ntE-WrzVltGmiz?key=ekdLVEUyZ3loLWt3YjhLcF9ZM3k1OV9iWFYzQ2ZB>
When informed of the physical original subject, a few people have immediately lost interest/engagement with it.
Another that tends to really grab viewers, and seems to lose its magic when explained.
<https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOCaMKlf8nhaRj-PRdOCc1Ht92GhBb7HFYQh2EddNhfbRccyzaYatgYnNj-cqoVfA/photo/AF1QipO2tEiIELsLNYVOppV6LUQZdTMnuJ1pyYHIOAST?key=ekdLVEUyZ3loLWt3YjhLcF9ZM3k1OV9iWFYzQ2ZB>
We had no Angst on that Urban expedition: it was a gorgeous day, the breeze
diluted the much-discussed pollution and all we saw were enjoying the company
of others.
It was something about the images of endless gray city from above made me happy
in that moment to be only looking.
Meandering Moose
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