It seems appropriate that my first post in this new forum is a picture. This is from a project about low water conditions in a small southern Ontario creek. It's part of a larger undertaking with partners in a local water management organization. I have it beside me as a large print on a new paper I'm trying out (Moab Juniper Baryta). The other prints in that set are here: www.robdeloephotography.com/Works/Experiments-in-Engagement/Silver-Creek
This image is a direct link to the one on my site, rather than an upload to the forum server. This works well, except I'm not sure if this forum's software allows you to click on the image to go to the link. My quick and dirty solution is to include the full image link underneath.
Welcome Rob. A strange and unsettling image - I like it!
For images uploaded here (and then embedded in a post) when clicked on they open at their original size in a new tab.
For externally linked images which appear (as yours above), you need to right-click, then choose 'View Image', the image will then open original size - though in the same tab.
Thank you. It's one of my favourites from the set. For the project I had to include more literal ones to set the stage. However, I always prefer the ambiguous ones.
Right-clicking works great. Good tip. Thanks! I think I may link like this most of the time because it saves server storage for the site operators, and also lets me stealthily update the image if I see something I didn't like. The catch is I'd have to leave it up (for a while at least). I publish to my site from inside Lightroom, and I do change the rotation. It will work out.
It'll work as long as you don't delete the image or rename it etc. That's the only rub.
If you upload direct to this site you can be (fairly) sure it'll stay in your post as long as this site exists. So maybe for photos showing how to set up gear it's actually good to upload to here, for personal / fine-art photos etc you might not want them to lodge in another site, so a link has some security and more control to you.
BTW to everyone here (not directed to you Rob, but anyone new reading this) >> the quote system unless you are familiar with it, is generating lots of mishaps on this site.
I'd advise if you just want to post a reply without a quote just click the larger 'Reply' button at the very base of the page (not a Reply button next to a post). That's a 'point A' simple approach, avoiding mishaps ...and it keeps unnecessary long quotes out of the equation.
If you want to quote (don't click a Reply button!), select just the text you want to quote, a 'Quote' pop-up option will appear, click on it. You now just have that text in a new reply box.
As a powerful optional extra, you can also scroll up behind your reply box and find another section of text to quote - from another poster in the same thread. Do the same, select the text, the 'Quote' pop-up will appear again, click on it. That text will be added to your reply box. Between these multiple quotes you can enter your own text, photos etc. The above is worth doing in a linear order to avoid mishaps, quote, write your text, quote, write your text etc ;-)
I just realized that this forum software recognizes BBCode, so in order to do what you want you have to wrap the image URL with img tag, and then wrap the result with url tag 🤣
That's interesting. I like this approach as it doesn't take you away from the site and doesn't add to storage issues. The downside of course is if the linked image is removed or deleted the image will disappear from the forum. Thank you for posting this, I something new today.
