India, interrupted
It’s the time of year where I renew my hosting of this site. I thought that I’d let it go, not renew it, because who cares about it etc etc, but when the time came I couldn’t do it, so I paid up. Too many memories attached. I know my mam likes my posts so I might as well do some! I have a million photos of my last trip so why not post them for posterity. And more travel is on the agenda.
When I was away I really didn’t have time to write anything – the agenda was full on and we were going the whole time. But I have time now, so why not. I realised that part of my reluctance to post was the whole issue of photos – no one cares about a wordy blog so you need photos, but the uploading and sizing of images was always a pain in the ass. Too big and no one can open them, or only very slowly. However I think the app allows me to automatically resize the photos so I will give it a go. Please let me know how the photos work.
So when I left off we were heading to Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal. Here’s one photo to get started.
yes wp is not that good with photo posts. Maybe it is getting better. Bandwidth is no longer an issue, at least for me. I think they also increased the storage allowance.
It’s good to read your post even if once a year 🙂
Thanks Antin! I’m going to shoot for more than once…
Great photo – but are you still running?
I am Vince! Was on and off for a while but I’m training for a half now at the end of March. Hope all is well with you – will catch up with your exploits
Excellent, very best of luck for the half.
Delighted julie that you are continuing the cranky blog. Mam
Thanks Mam!
My Mum is also a fan of my blog, which always catches me off guard. I’d pop around the house and she’d say ‘oh, I see you were out running with Gary last week’ and I’d be scratching my head, trying to work out how she knew!
As regards pics, I used to go to all the trouble of actually opening everything in Photoshop and accurately resizing everything. I don’t know how you get your digital pics into WordPress, but I’m on Mac and use Photos. I don’t even bother with the WP gallery anymore coz it seems buggy and doesn’t allow batch uploads. So now I just download the pics I want to use from Photos onto the desktop at a large size, and drag and drop them where I want them. I can tidy and tweak them a little if required, using Preview, which is fairly basic but you can always crop, straighten and brighten, etc.
There is an ‘upload from phone’ option too but I haven’t tried it. Nor have I tried the AI option, although who couldn’t be tempted by ‘unironedman wins Dublin Marathon!’ just the once… 😉