PhotoShelter Mini Gallery

Hi Alex,

The links seem to be working. Good. You might want to improve this to be a mini gallery of your Photoshelter images.

All you have to do is to add exclamation marks before and after the URL, and for the image URL, add ”/t”. Like this.

This is the thread for Photosheltr account holders to post their mini galleries which will be transported to my site where the list of their profiles exists.

As Alex has done, I would like to have three things for each image listing.

Title of PS Gallery

Featured Image hotlinked: This should look like
!http://www.photoshelter.com/img-get/Your Image ID/t!

(”/t” would make the image you get the thumbnail version. The thumbnail version is embedded as shown above.)

Caption

(Caption text will be used as text for alt tags inside the image. If you know html, that would be . But I’ll do this insertion. Caption should include the title of the image you are using to represent the gallery.

Here is a sample Photoshelter mini gallery of three images, which link to my PS galleries.

http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com/photographs/photoshelter_member_galleries_m-z.html

The rationale for this is to get more visitors to have a LOOK at each of us on the list and to get Google Images to index more of the images. The specific image title and the gallery name would ideally include keywords picture/image searchers would use in their searches.

We would hope that if anyone types in “Bedouins Israel,” Alex’s image would come up in the future.

Tomoko

Hi Tomoko, thank you.
Right so I suggest my images would be:
1st image:

Title:
Bedouins of the Holy Land – Negev Desert – Israel – Middle East

Image URL:

Gallery ID: http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000OqZADMsg9qE

Caption: Abu Ali, 69-years-old Bedouin man, walking on the land leading to his olive trees in the unrecognised village of Sararat, in West Bank zone C (Israeli controlled), close to Jerusalem, the capital of the country. The Israeli government is forcing him to move from a land he lives in since 50 years. Part of the separation wall aimed at protecting the large Jewish settlements in the area has been planned to pass trough his propriety. Some tribes, like the Suahre, living in this area, are completely surrounded by settlements with the intent of limiting the Bedouins in the smallest amount of land possible. According to the Government’s settlements-expansion plan and land seizure programs, there is a strong interest in ‘convincing’ the Bedouins to move to pre-selected towns, such as Segev Shalom and Rahat, a real city counting more than 40.000 people. Numbering around 200.000 in Israel, the Bedouins constitute the native ethnic group of these areas, they farm, grow wheat, olives and live in complete self sufficiency. Many of them were in these lands long before the Israeli State was created and their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle is now threatened by subtle Government policies.

2nd Image:

Title: Freegans in New York City – USA

Image URL: Gallery ID: http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000jtxi2XWynv4

Caption: Stephanie, 21, member of the Freegan community in New York, standing by the food recovered from dump sites along 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, New York, NY., USA. Freegans are a community of people who aims at recovering wasted food, books, clothing, office supplies and other items from the refuse of retail stores, frequently discarded in brand new condition. They recover goods not for profit, but to serve their own immediate needs and to share freely with others. According to a study by a USDA-commissioned study by Dr. Timothy Jones at the University of Arizona, half of all food in the United States is wasted at a cost of $100 billion dollars every year. Yet 4.4 million people in the United States alone are classified by the USDA as hungry. Global estimates place the annual rate of starvation deaths at well over 8 million. The massive waste generated in the process fills landfills and consumes land as new landfills are built. This waste stream also pollutes the environment, damages public health as landfills chemicals leak into the ground, and incinerators spew heavy metals back into the atmosphere. Freegans practice strategies for everyday living based on sharing resources, minimizing the detrimental impact of our consumption, and reducing and recovering waste and independence from the profit-driven economy. They are dismayed by the social and ecological costs of an economic model where only profit is valued, at the expense of the environment. In a society that worships competition and self-interest, Freegans advocate living ethical, free, and happy lives centred around community and the notion that a healthy society must function on interdependence. Freegans also believe that people have a right and responsibility to take back control of their time.

3rd Image:

Title: Children affected by HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa

Image URL: Gallery ID: http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000yZvKTPvmAyU

Caption: Kholiswa, 1 and a half year old, HIV+ child in her bad at Thembacare. Her mother is also HIV+ and in need of second line treatment for Tuberculosis. Thembacare, a HIV+ children hospice in Athlone run by Thembalitsha (www.thembalitsha.org.za), a local faith-based organisation working in the field of HIV/AIDS, is also partially looking after the mother, in the intent of helping the child also through family care. Thembacare has 18 beds at their disposal and was generally home of very sick children that would have eventually died. Thanks to the newly developed ARV drugs for children and private funding, Thembacare can now lengthens the life of these babies and give them the assistance and love very much needed in their growth. ARVs will have to be taken for the rest of their life for them to survive, work and help others

Also, my html search for Photoshelter as Tomoko example on his page:

Thank you,

Best,

Alex

P.S. Tomoko, on the page

http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com/photographs/photoshelter_member_galleries_m-z.html

my name as an hyperlink is not visible. Is that normal?

And also i cannot see your images as it says my browser should allow cookies, which i think it does. Know how i can check for it?

Thank you for the hard work, really, and hope all of us will benefit in the long run. Please let me know if there is anything i can do.

Best,

Alex Masi

Alex,

I am sorry that your name is still missing in the linked list of photographers’ names. I’ll fix it after my breakfast.

As for your not being able to see my PS images, you could check to see in your browser’s properties’ section. I am using Firefox in German, and I don’t know offhand what the word “Einstellungen” would be in English. There should be an area where you can check for cookies.

Tomoko

No problems Tomoko, thank you. I will have a proper look at the thing.

Let’s keep being in touch on this.

Best for now,

Alex

Alex,

You were right about your browser. I was able to reproduce the same problem myself. Apparently Photoshelter keeps track of our log-in with a particular browser, so if I am not logged in at the PS site, I cannot show my larger version of my own images at Photoshelter. I changed all the images to show as thumbnails.

Too bad Photoshelter’s thumbnails are small.

I also fixed your hyperlink, and I recounted those on the list. There are 39 of us right now. There have been two people dropping out of the list.

Alex and others,

I have updated everything including Alex’s mini gallery.

Have a look at the feed and the mini galleries.

http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com/photographs/ls_photoshelter.xml

http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com/photographs/photoshelter_member_galleries_m-z.html

The caption ideally should be plain text, no links included. Then I can insert it as is into the alt tag. As I thought, since Alex embedded his images in the thread, img src tags are already there with empty alt tags, which made the conversion relatively fast.

I did this despite my words to the contrary, but I’ll have to wait until after June 3 to do any more, but now you can see two mini galleries and they should show up in Google Blogs as soon as I manually update the URl of the feed.

Thanks, Alex, in taking the lead on this part of our list.

I verified that Google Blogs indexed Alex Masi’s Mini Gallery in the feed.

Anne Holmes and others!

Here is a look of how one can embed PS thumbnail images on an LS thread.

In order to embed any images in your post on an LS thread, you have to put exclamation marks before and after the image URL. On Photoshelter your image URL that can be hot-linked from the outside is the following:

http://www.photoshelter.com/img-get/(your image ID)/t

/t would get your image thumbnail. The larger image of about 500 pix cannot be hotlinked.

I just wanted to set the record straight that I am a woman despite Alex Masi implies here otherwise with his usage of he or his to refer to me.

I hope this works…..

Iran

http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000cCVCNQKjRd8

Here is a collection of photographs from Iran, showing daily life in the work place, at home and in public. Areas of specific interest include the Kurdish population, women, and life in Bam since the 2003 earthquake.

Bangkok Protests

http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G00007ioQNG_fzx8

Since the September 2006 coup that deposed PM Thaksin Shinawatra, there have been numerous groups rallying on a regular basis. Some don’t agree with the way Thaksin was ousted, and some are his paid loyalists. And then there are those who despise Thaksin, but who would like to see an end to the cycle of military coups Thailand seems to be trapped in. All protests have been peaceful, but there is often talk of violent factions escalating the confrontation. Many critics note that the groups have failed to produce impressive numbers, but since 30 of Thailand’s 76 provinces are still under martial law, and the army has been blocking citizens from entering the capital, it is difficult to know how many more dissidents exist. Regardless, the demonstrations are a manifestation of political discourse as Thailand struggles to determine its own democracy.

Thailand AIDS Hospice

http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000j204_Uz5aYo

Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu is a temple in LopBuri, Thailand, that cares for dying AIDS patients and helps to rehabilitate those who are strong enough to get back on their feet. There are no doctors, no nurses and no morphine. Since the Thai government decided to ignore Abbot’s patent laws and make the Anti-Retroviral drug cocktail available, many people come to the hospice to live rather than to die. Still, 3 to 4 deaths occur per week.

An estimated 90% of the patients at Wat Phra Bat Nam Phu never see their families again. HIV + individuals are still very much stigmatized in Thailand, and many of those who are well enough to go back into the world would prefer to stay at the hospice than face the alienation of their communities.

Domo arigato,

Anne

Hi Tomoko, sorry, i got this one right now :)

Best,

I will keep in touch,

Alex

I can’t seem to hyperlink the image url. I tried everything but to no avail. Help!

Hi Anne

Doitashimashite.

I hope you edit your entry above by putting exclamation marks before and after the image URLs rather than quotation marks, and you can embed your images right here on this thread. Check the formatting tips if you are not sure of what I am saying. I can then copy the source codes for your post to the html file I have for the mini gallery. The source codes are essentially html codes rather than exclamation marks, so I can copy and paste. This would make my job easier.

Also you need to drop s from http in your gallery listing. s is added to the URL when you log in, so unless the viewer is a PS member, he/she cannot look at your gallery.

Earlier this evening I checked my control panel on my web server to make sure I can do this editing and did indeed make a little editing of my own listing.

By the way, your descriptions are pretty good in my opinion, so that eventually you might pick up more viewers to your galleries and images. RSS feeds help this process as well. If you haven`t made any RSS feeds of your galleries, you can make them easily at Photoshelter.

Tomoko

Tomoko,

This is what happens when I put exclamtion marks before and after:

Let’s see if it works but last time I got a question mark….

I have edited my 1st post to reflect the gallery url’s when not signed in.

Thank you for taking the time to do all this.

Shin’ai naru Tomoko,

Incidentally, I will be in Japan in September, in Kanazawa, for an exhibition of my photographs from Iran and a small selection of my paintings. I will not come to Tokyo this time, but I may pm you later this summer if you don’t mind. I am hoping to do some shooting on particular subjects while I am there and perhaps you can share some advice with me.

I hope you are not suffering too much heat in Tokyo.

Arigato,

Anne

Anne,

Now you have put the gallery ID for the image. You need the image ID. Then put the exclamation marks before and after the URL of the image.

I have to run to catch the train.

Tomoko

Okay…Done!

Cheers,

Anne

Congratulations, Anne!

I hope more PS list members will follow your lead and Alex`s.

By the way, I will be in Tokyo only until the 17th when I fly back to Vienna. In late August I will return to my current home base of Baltimore, Maryland in the USA. If you have any questions that I could answer, you might want to PM me now. Here I can google in Japanese more easily because I am using a Mac with a Japanese OP. Back in Baltimore, I have to do cumbersome tasks to transform my Japanese character entries from a word-processing program by sending an e-mail from one old Netscape e-mail client to my new Netscape client.

Tomoko

Hi Anne,

I put up a new photoshelter mini gallery A-L as below:

http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com/photographs/photoshelter_member_galleries_a-l.html

All your text descriptions are hidden behind your images as alt text. I put the title tags to repeat the titles inside the image tags and added the phrases to emphasize the words photos and your name in the alt tag. When Google indexes this webpage above, and in particular the images, your names and photos are repeated for emphasis. I hope that this editing will help.

Domo arigato, domo arigato…a few bows and “nice work!”