I took the liberty of re-ordering the albums in the
RV Forum Rallies category, so the newest album shows at the top.
I believe I'm caught up with opening new rally albums and adding photos, unless I receive new ones (or they're posted in the forum). If you've sent me photos that do not appear in any of the albums, please PM or email me.
This was a fun project, albeit occasionally a mind bender when I couldn't get dates and locations straight in my head. We've had some albums in the gallery for several years, but filling in the gaps with photos of additional rallies has been on my to-do list for a long time. Now back to all those other forum-related projects on my list.
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big thanks to all the folks who provided photos and who helped with the names, dates and locations.
Re-iterating a prior comment: In order to give due attribution to the original photographers, if you recognize one or more of your photos, or you know the photographer, please let me know; Be sure to identify the album and photo(s) in your response.
Going forward, I plan to add new albums as photos are posted in rally or event reports;. That should make it relatively painsless to keep the gallery current.
Thanks again for all the help, and please
enjoy!
For the benefit of the larger community, I've received and responded privately to a couple of comments/suggestions:
I've received a suggestion that photos be "improved" (e.g. in Photoshop) before they're added to the gallery. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do that, given all the other stuff that takes my time around here. I've made simple fixes to a very small number of photos where the original was tough to see, but I don't plan to edit/fix any photos going forward. So, please take a look at your photos before posting &/or sending them to me; If you think they're of acceptable quality, that's good enough for me, and will probably be good enough for most folks viewing them here.
I've also received a comment regarding the file size of some photos being too large and taking too long to download. Except in a few cases where I re-sized some very large photos, I've essentially uploaded photos at their original size. FWIW the software being used for the gallery automatically creates/stores 3 different sizes of images on the server:
- A thumbnail (the small images you see when you open an album).
- An intermediate image (which is what you see if you click on a thumbnail).
- A full size image (which is what you see if you click on an intermediate image).
The current default maximum size for intermediate images is set to 400x500 pixels, which limits the file size for download, and shouldn't be a problem for most users. Anyone wanting to see a larger/full size image has the option to click the intermediate image.