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July 5, 2006

Using the PicturePost Website

Tips to view and download the accumulated pictures taken from PicturePosts

Website Basics: http://picturepost.smugmug.com

 Why use a commercial site to archive and share PicturePost photos?  Because it was convenient to set up; works for Macs and PCs on all web browsers; has useful tools; and for a small annual fee, we can host and distribute a great deal of photos for free to anyone who wants the electronic versions of the photos.  For the fee of printing and shipping, you may order prints of the photos from SmugMug.com, but our project does not make money from this.

Opening Web Page

There are two categories of galleries available on the opening web page.  The Featured Galleries contain links to Measuring Vegetation Health and how-to guides and information about the PicturePosts currently installed in parks.

 

The second set of galleries are folders of the photos taken from each of the PicturePosts plus experiments with time lapse cameras.

Click to select gallery

To view a gallery, click on the icon/photo or gallery name in bold text.  If viewing a PicturePost folder, continuing to the photos by selecting a folder with a view in one direction.

Information & Tools

    Post latitude & longitude

    View most recent to oldest

    Each filename contains date and time.

    Use slideshow tool to view all pictures in folder.

    Data on camera and settings for each photogaph is available (see exif).

    View and download a variety of picture resolutions.

Next: Examples using the repeat photographs to monitor environmental change