Picture of the Day (Dial-up internet users enter at own risk!)

I know there are some great TUG photographers out there. I thought it would be neat to see some of your favorite vacation photos and start a thread where we could post only one picture a day. They do this on another board I belong to and it is very fun to see what other people have seen and done.

Here is my POTD- Drummers in Japan at Epcot's World Showcase.

Nobody has photos to share?!?!

I enjoyed looking at yours. But I don't know how to put pictures in a post and mine are not of timeshares, anyway. They would be of Moab--or Disney when the kids were little.

I agree with Rose....but alas, I too don't know how to put pictures in the post.

I have tried before, but haven't had any success.

I thought there was a thread somewhere about how to post pics....

anyway...ill give a 10 cent version =)

basically you first have to find somewhere to "host" the picture for you.

a variety of sites will provide this for you...some at minimal cost...some at no cost

examples are imageshack, photobucket, flickr etc etc.

also aol has their FTP service for free with membership (and membership is free also)...but the interface there is clunky and such.

anyway...once you find a host to upload your picture to...you simply use the little square yellow icon at the top of the post box to paste the address into.

for example if you look at tugs homepage http://www.tug2.net

the TUG logo in the top left hand corner is merely a single image.

that image address is http://tug2.net/images/tuglogo3.gif

(this will show up as a link above...as I have not chosen to click the yellow box to indicate its a picture)

now with using the same link and putting the proper image tags around it...it will show as a picture. these tags are [img.]http://tug2.net/images/tuglogo3.gif[/img.]

i have added periods so the code shows up....if the periods were missing obviously it would not be displayed that way

so when I remove the periods...it looks like this



clicking the yellow box brings up a new window in which you can type in the address and it will put the IMG tags around it for you...or you can simply just type them in yourself.

in the example above....the picture LINK is:

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd189/tl_swift/Disney World/12-26-2007-33.jpg

without the tags around it...it is just a regular link to click on. (notice swift uses photobucket as their image hosting software)

however surrounding it with the proper tags makes the forum software display it in your browser as the full picture.

man...last trip I took that I got a decent photo of was a contracting gig in houston before I took over tug.

fantastic shot of traffic...I had never seen 14 lanes of dead stop traffic before!



sorry its not a pretty vacation type pic =D

Well, the sky is very blue.

This picture is an old one, obviously by the date, but it is still a great vacation memory. It is of the Grand Tetons out side of Jackson Hole.

TUG Improvements! said:

man...last trip I took that I got a decent photo of was a contracting gig in houston before I took over tug.

fantastic shot of traffic...I had never seen 14 lanes of dead stop traffic before!

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Have you been to Los Angels lately?!?!

Finally......I think I got it!

Thanks Theresa

swift said:

Have you been to Los Angels lately?!?!

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I was going to point that out to Brian, that traffic like that is everyday here!

swift said:

Have you been to Los Angels lately?!?!

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ha...no!

My only california gig was in salinas....fantastic little city there! although flying back and forth between jax and san jose every week for 6 months was really brutal on my sleep patterns!

I havent seen traffic as bad as houston since I lived in DC!

and excellent pic! it works!

also if you wish to post a pic and dont care to sign up for one of those service...email the pic to me at tug@tug2.net and ill host it for you.

Moonrise over Solmar Beach - Cabo San Lucas

guess comcast doesnt allow remote linking anymore...pic only shows up when you cut/paste the link into a browswer window.

TUG Improvements! said:

guess comcast doesnt allow remote linking anymore...pic only shows up when you cut/paste the link into a browswer window.

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Are you saying the Moonrise pic I posted doesn't show up in your browser??

No it doesn't appear. It shows only a box with a red X in it.

This is the easiest way I have found to post pic's.

If you have your pics on a disk, or on your computer go to http://photobucket.com/ you will have to join but there is no fee.

Upload some pics.

Once uploaded you will have a selection of choices in Photobucket. For TUG click on "Direct Link" this will copy info.

Once you are back in TUG click on the Insert Image (the one that looks like a postcard with a mountain on it below the redo arrow)

A box will pop up. Use your back up key to erase the http that it has already started. (Your direct link will already have that in it.) Right click to paste your Direct Link info and then click OK.

That's it! It really is pretty simple.
Have fun whether pic's are old or new they are fun to share.

Theresa

TUG Improvements! said:

guess comcast doesnt allow remote linking anymore...pic only shows up when you cut/paste the link into a browswer window.

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swift said:

No it doesn't appear. It shows only a box with a red X in it.

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Looks to me like a browser issue. Using two different computers, the photo appears in Firefox, but does not appear in Internet Explorer.

Anybody using Firefox, but not seeing my photo of Moonrise over Solmar Beach?

*****

Here it is on Picasa - see if that works.

swift said:

This picture is an old one, obviously by the date, but it is still a great vacation memory. It is of the Grand Tetons out side of Jackson Hole.

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Your photo makes it easy to understand why the old French fur traders gave the mountains that name!

Steve - I see your picture - It is fabulous.

Theresa - I don't see any pictures you have posted but if you are using photobucket, they are blocked by a filter on our network.


Houston is just the way I remember it.

Disney Boardwalk

Steve,

FABULOUS picture!

still trying