This lovely airport card comes from a private trade; I understand that this airport is one of the largest in the country!
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This is an ad card; on the back it says that the John Hancock Center near Chicago’s lakefront is just one of the city’s world-famous works of architecture. I never realized Chicago had a waterline like this….cool! 🙂
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Rec’d this from a private trade; this is a “rhyton of rock-crystal from the sanctuary of the Palace of Zakros (155/1450 BC).” Beautiful!
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Map of Canada from my postcard pal Tam. She sent this and the next, Canada Map 2, and pointed out how the second map, Canada 2, was printed before the Nunavut providence came into existance. See the Northwest Territories here? Earlier, it encompassed Nunavut, too.
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Second map from Tam; this one is pre-Nunavut. Cool! 🙂
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I have to say that, in this day and age, I am surprised at the clumsiness of photoblogging solutions.
Ever since I switched to using Flickr to store my photos, my cards have been cut-off at the right. Flickr’s “BLOG THIS” ability is nice, but it only offers two templates: 500px, which means my photos are too big and are cut off, or 240px, which means my photos show up too small here on Blogger…you can barely see them. So this explains why many of my previous photos are cut off.
I have found a solution, but it creates yet ANOTHER problem.
A wise soul on the Flickr help pages showed how to change the width of each photo blogged to 400px. That’s great! It works for horizontal images. Now they fit nicely, and you can see the detail. But what about VERTICAL images? I was afraid that code would force Blogger to STRETCH the vertical images out to 400px in width. Thankfully, it doesn’t do that. But what it does is super ENLARGE the image to retain the correct proportions! So now, what you will see on my blog in the future, are vertical images that are SUPER LARGE but normal-sized horizontal images. The next two blog posts you see as you scroll will show you what I mean.
Does that suck or what???
The lesser of two evils, I suppose….
The more I struggle with photoblogging, the more I want to find some smart programmers who want to go into business with me to create a photoblogging solution that WORKS. When you run into problems with Flickr or Blogger, you’re basically at their mercy. And for some reason, they refuse to tackle and/or even acknowledge even basic issues that would make very many people happy. (This is not just me!)
For instance, why does Flickr not allow you to easily show photos AND descriptions in a slide-show format? So many people want this option…it would be easy to integrate, according to the Web heads out there talking about it….yet Flickr people won’t even engage in the conversation to tell us that they hear us and WHY they won’t do something about it.
Despite my frustration I continue. I know that some day the right solution will come along and then…I’m outta here!
Back to our regularly scheduled postcards…..
Thanks for listening! 🙂
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Horizontal images now blog fine….but the verticals, as you will see, are way too big!
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Vertical images blogged here using Flickr’s BLOGTHIS with the template modified to a width of 400 px means images that are TOO BIG.
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This awesome view of Singapore comes from a round robin on postcrossing. Sender relie tells me that it shows the skyline of Singapore’s central business district, where most of the big banks and multinationals are located. In the foreground is the Swiss Stanford Hotel, the tallest hotel in southeast Asia! Thanks Relie!
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From this spot, it is 90 miles to Cuba. I visited here when I was a teen, but I wasn’t collecting postcards at that time (I think I was collecting boys!). My parents picked this up during their travels 🙂
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