This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is a multi-photo challenge to “Share (many) pictures in a gallery which mean GREEN to you!” The link for more examples of this challenge is below my post.
Click any photo for a larger view:
My Green Gallery is a green reflection on a lake, green moss on petrified wood, green hostas, green garden lettuce, a green butterfly sign, a green herb patch, a green plant by a pond, a green cornfield, a green lawn bordered by evergreen shrubs, and slightly green pears being washed to make pear butter.
I don’t like the way the gallery feature displays photos, even after trying the different gallery styles. So I’m including the slideshow too, since at least it shows the whole photo, only in medium size. The gallery photos can be viewed in full size by clicking on one and using the side arrows to scroll through them. I know, it is time-consuming, especially if you visit as many other blogs to see their challenge photos as I do.
But the other option is to rebel and do the green part of the challenge without using the gallery part. Well, maybe not exactly rebel, just not follow all the rules of the challenge. 🙂
I may still change my photos here and not use a gallery, but I don’t have time to re-do the post now. For some reason the gallery feature is making one photo bigger than the others, and cutting off the side of it and the 9th photo. I’ve tried every possible editing feature I can find related to gallery and media to fix it, but maybe I’m missing an option somewhere.
How do you like using the gallery feature for your photos?
Do you take time to click to view photos in full size when you visit blogs with a photo gallery?
How green is your world?
More submissions to this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
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Stunning pictures 🙂
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Love the reflection! Thanks for the shares. It is always nice to see and be reminded how green the world can still be.
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I know what you mean too ! I played around a bit with the gallery style but it made up my mind not to bother … maybe that’s wrong but it is time consuming – I prefer the slide show way like you have done if there are quite a few pictures .
Nice variety of Greens 🙂
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Lovely Greens. I just started using the gallery feature. I like the tiled version rather than the slide show. Don’t always have time to scroll through. If one really speaks to me then I’ll click to see the larger version.
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Such a versatile colour isn’t it!
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I don’t like the gallery set-up. It’s time consuming to use it for my own post as well as when viewing photos on other blogs. Most of the photos are seen at their best full-screen (or almost) so why not just display them separately? That’s what I do. Usually I do click on each shot but I see far fewer blogs as a result.
I enjoyed your collection of various greens, shapes etc. Thank you.
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I too have found the gallery settings annoying as it emphasises the wrong photo in a group of photos. I don’t mind some being bigger than others but I do like it to be the one I choose. I have found that if I control the upload order and the number of columns in the gallery it gives me some control over which photos are large. It still clips the edges. If I like someone’s gallery I will flick through the full size files.
I like your slideshow.
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I especially liked the one of the lawn bordered by evergreens because it reminds me of yards like the ones in Connecticut where I grew up.
As for using the gallery feature or clicking on pictures, I usually read posts on my iPhone so the pictures are small no matter what! I’m a bit of a technology-phobe, so I don’t post pictures to my blog much at all. I would like to do so more, though, and appreciate others’ experiences and tips!
Great pictures!
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I love these – too hard to pick a favorite here. And I’ve noticed that with the gallery too. I don’t get to pick which photo is the biggest (it picks for me). I think that would be a good feature for WP to add. I didn’t notice until today about cutting off part of the picture though. As for scrolling through the galleries on sites I visit – depends on if I have enough time for being online. I like to do that if I have the time…even like to leave comments on my favorites when I can too.
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Great green photos!
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I like your green pictures.
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