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Photo linking again

The last post showed how to enlarge a picture that was uploaded via the Blogger upload image process. When enlarging, the pictures lost detail.
When a Blogger user uploads pictures, a Picasa Web album is automatically created for each blog the user authors. The user can access this Web album by navigating to their Blogger Dashboard and selecting the My Account link. Under My Products, there will be a listing for Picasa Albums.

I'll link those two pictures again, this time using the Picasa Web album link, but adjusting the Width from Auto to 80% because the auto width seems to spill out the sides of my blog layout and I really don't like that. Also, for the vertical pictures, I set the width to 75% so the picture isn't so big:

From Test Blog

From Test Blog

Medium size

From Test Blog

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Directly uploading photos into Blogger

Instead of linking from flickr or the Picasa albums, these two images will be uploaded through the blogger interface.





In the HTML editor, Adjusted the width from 400px / 266px to 100%, deleted the height code

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POTD - City Scapes

St Louis' City Museum is a photographer's dream or nightmare. So many cool textures, structures, artwork, tilework, sculptures and more to photograph. Here are just a small sampling of what I found interesting. I think I have another 2 dozen highly varied photos to sort through yet. If you ever get to St Louis, make sure to visit and bring your camera.

A whole wall of glass bottles adorned the entrance to the Vintage Clothing shop.


Using scrap or salvaged rebar, someone told the welder / artist to "create whatever you want".


Kids climb the metal structure to get to the slide.


Spools of thread that feed the shoelace machine. They design and sell all sorts of flat woven shoe laces, wrist bands, etc on the spot.


Hundreds of these painted ceramic balusters adorn the staircases and covers one of the slides. They spin, too.


In the dark recesses of the back part of the warehouse - staircases that lead you to the 7th floor spiral slide.


Hopefully I'll get to post more pictures over the next several days.

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Testing some more

I want to see how the formatting will look on using this template's color scheme.

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Italic

BOLD

Quoting:

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Inserting Links:

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Lists:

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POTD - Hungry?

Probably not, but best not to find out. This Amur Tiger will turn 12 months old in April. Yeah, she's only 11 months old now. How scary is that?




She and her 4 siblings reside at the St. Louis Zoo, in a huge, open air enclosure with several vantage points. I used my 300mm lens to capture her licking her chops after some playful exchanges with one of her siblings. Even these huge creatures are cute when they play together.

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POTD - Determination [Emotion]

Brian had just maneuvered himself through the body of a gutted airplane. If he had trouble, think about how I felt. Squished, for sure. And I had on these boots with 2" heels. Not the ideal shoes to be climbing in.

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