PG realized he hadn’t posted any photos recently.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but he was in a photo mood today.
The photo in this post is the entrance to a canyon, Rock Canyon, that extends quite a distance back into the mountains via various connecting and crossing trails. One crossing trail is about 100 miles long. As you can see, the photo was taken while there was still snow on the ground several weeks ago.
Whenever PG hikes up this canyon, he always sees it as a monumental place. During the shifting of ancient earth, mountains were cracked in half vertically. That crack is the canyon.
Either because of the hardness of the stone or the recency of the violent earth movement, there is relatively little erosion of the rock. In many places, you can visualize how the two sides of the canyon formerly fit together.
PG has seen Bighorn Sheep on the slopes of Rock Canyon. Where there are sheep, there are also cougars. PG hasn’t seen any of those, but he is acquainted with others who have.
Despite the impact the canyon has on PG, he has experienced difficulty in capturing his feelings in photos, although he has tried many times. He posted a photo taken farther up the canyon a couple of months ago that was a little more evocative of his feelings and gives a sense of the steepness of the canyon walls.
At the mouth of the canyon, the image results out of the camera were not satisfactory. However, with some post-processing, PG tried to bring out a sense that the canyon might be an entrance to a place of hidden mysteries.
Or maybe just a place full of rocks. You can click on the photo to see a larger version.
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Always delighted to see PG photos of nature, they’re sacramental … please keep them coming!
Thanks, John.
I love your photos. I’m so glad you share them with us on your blog. 😀
One question…
How do you set up that “click for a larger image” thing? I’ve managed to allow readers of my blog to click for an image surrounded by neutral gray and uncluttered with the rest of the rest of the web page. But it’s the same size.
I’d like to be able to give them access to a larger image, if they wish it.
This is what works for me in WordPress, Jessica.
1. The larger version of the photo depends upon the size of the photo you’re going to upload and insert into the blog post. In this case, my photo was 1608×1080 pixels.
2. When the user clicks to see the larger image and that image is larger than the display area available, the browser I usually use (Chrome) will automatically downsize the larger photo to fit the screen space available (so the same photo fills the screen on the desktop and a smart phone, but isn’t cut off).
3. However, if I upload a photo that isn’t at least large enough to fill the screen, the browser will show it at its actual size based on the resolution of the monitor (During the PC-XT days, you were looking at 1240×768 pixels for the whole monitor. Today, it may be 1,920×1,080 pixels.) So, if the photo you upload is 300 pixels wide, it won’t take up more than about 24% of the width of a monitor that is 1240 pixels wide. It will take up 16% of the width of a monitor that is 1920 pixels wide.
For those who may not be familiar with the process of embedding a photo into a WordPress post:
1. When I’m ready for a photo in a post, I use the Add Media button in the WP Add New Post window, do the upload, which gets the photo from my computer into my online WordPress Media Library.
2. In the Add New Post window, if I already have some other material, I click where I want the image to appear. Then, I go to the Media Library, I select the photo and click the Insert Media button.
3. In the right-hand column under Attachment Display Settings, I have the option of specifying the size of the photo as it appears in the WordPress blog post. I usually leave the photo at 640×430 unless I’m inserting it into part of the post constituting a quote, which has narrower margins.
4. If I upload a 1608×1080 pixel image, it will show up at 640×430 while someone is looking at the photo on TPV, but if they click on the photo it will enlarge to a maximum of 1608×1080 pixel image.
In WordPress, you upload the media image in the large size you want to share when clicked. Then, in your post, you choose the actual size within the post (typically the “large” which matches your template width). WP will reduce the size of the uploaded post to the size it embeds in the post.
The code inside the post looks like this (minus the HTML wrappers — use your imagination). I have a 2400×1200 original, which WP converted on upload to a 1024×512 maximum, which occupies a 629×315 spot in the post, but if you click on it, you are taken to the WP maximum.
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img src=”http://karenmyersauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ANNWN-N1-All-formats-Trimmed-2400×1200-1024×512.jpg” alt=”” width=”629″ height=”315″ class=”aligncenter size-large wp-image-170″ /
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Thanks, PG and Karen. Got it!
I’d been pre-sizing my images prior to uploading them, so that they would fit in the space available.
That’s probably a fine idea, in general, because it keeps the image files small and thus uses up less storage space on my host’s servers.
But now I’m going to experiment with uploading larger sizes on those special images that I’d like to share at full screen size. 😀