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By: Anniversaries « Photo Challenge

Anniversaries « Photo Challenge — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:15:47 +0000

[...] near-as-dammit one year since the first Photo Challenge was published on this site. Therefore, this week your Challenge is to take a photo on the theme of [...]

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:29:41 +0000

It’s a hot-water bottle, Jonathan.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:54:34 +0000

I don’t mind what size the submissions come in – I manually resized all of the entries to 1024×768, except for Stu’s which was already smaller than this. 1024×768 looks fine on my high-resolution desktop but is slightly too tall for my laptop unless I make the browser full-screen. The only ones that fit are Stu’s slightly smaller image, and Nigel’s “widescreen” book.

Don’t even mention the netbook…

I could look into some automagic resizer thingy, but it sounds like a pain. I like the simplicity of batch-resizing the photos on my PC, uploading them and then letting Lightbox sort out the “click for bigger” business.

If people are happy with this week’s 1024×768 sizing, then I’ll leave it be. If other people reckon it’s a tad too big, I’ll try a smaller size next week.

By: Clackpot

Clackpot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:46:50 +0000

I like the pix this week, especially the book – it made me want to go and photograph a very old book I have on my shelves.

Re the image sizes, I find them too small on my laptop, and completely swamped on my desktop, but then I run both at high resolutions. I wonder if it’s worth finding a Java scripted gallery that will resize according to the viewport? Or maybe just nominate ideal and/or maximum dimensions for submissions?

By: lordhutton

lordhutton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:07 +0000

Nice one, and a good layout
Andy

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:25:49 +0000

What’s your photo of, Stu? Looks like the plastic grille bit you get on a car between the windscreen and bonnet!

Nigel – thanks for your feedback on the picture viewing layout. The images were unusually slow to load today because of a problem at the Derbyshire data centre where my site is hosted. Should be OK again soon.

Looking at the images, I think they’re slightly too big. They looked fine on my desktop PC, but on my laptop they don’t quite fit on. Next week I’ll make them a little smaller.

Good work everyone!

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:08 +0000

Ooh… that was a lot easier this week

Thanks again for taking the challenge over, Jonathan. And HURRAH! for everyone who entered. Good work!

By: Nigel Hurll

Nigel Hurll — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:28:24 +0000

Well done, everybody! Good job I changed my mind – I was going to do exactly the same as Fabien (and there would have been a lot more wrinkles – maybe that’s why I did change my mind)!! I like to see all the pictures together with the click for bigness feature, although it did take quite a long time for the large image to load, but maybe that’s my setup. Anyway, thanks, Jonathan, for keeping us on our toes.