Bears in the garden

I took this photo earlier this year at Bear Creek Park in Surrey, BC. Sometimes those city gardeners get quite creative.

Just about time for some spring photo-walks

In the spring, I like to head out to the Boundary Bay flyway in Delta, BC for some spring fun with my camera. Over the last couple of years, I’ve managed to find eagles galore, along with one or two of these guys.

Snowy owls stop in on their way north in the spring. Being large, solitary birds, they are quite something to see. Fairly cooperative models as well.

Mist in the trees

Sometimes a little morning mist can add to the tree line.

Some reflections at Green Timbers Lake

I’ve been spending a good deal of time at Green Timbers Park in Surrey, BC. Every time I visit, I get a different view of the lake. Quite relaxing.

I took this with my iPhone, but I wish I’d had my Nikon with me that day.

Changed to the ‘Suits’ theme

Just the first post using the ‘Suits’ theme. Changed it from 2014, because I couldn’t put the site title below or in the header image.

No other reason for now.

Fall sky

This is a view on one of the trails I walk on at Green Timbers in Surrey, BC.

It was a beautiful day.

Image links

Well, that was weird.

I posted that last image via MarsEdit.

In the mobile app, the code shows up by default and I have to use a ‘view site’ button to see the image.

On the site itself, the code showed up at first and shortly after a refresh, the photo showed up.

Not sure I’ve got this thing completely down yet. I do have some sample code to play with though, as long as I can find the old codes Flickr use to use. Right now they just offer an iframe link.

Sigh.

Testing a link to Flickr photos

For the most part, I prefer to link images for my posts from my Flickr account. It helps keep the file size down if I need to move the content somewhere else. I know that some hosts provide an export file, but many seem to be just text. If I use links, rather than the photo itself uploaded to the site, my shots come with me in a text file.

How cool is that!

However, like all of the other blogging platforms I’ve used, WordPress and Flickr make it less than intuitive to share that way. I’m posting this via MarsEdit to see if I can figure out the right link and code to use.

We’ll see.

So very frustrating {Update}

{Update: It seems you can still get the old style links from Flickr if you revert back to their old style photo viewing page. At least it works for now. Hopefully they’ll fix that little glitch.}

It turns out that, without a lot of coding each time, you can’t link photos from Flickr in posts any more.

The only link Flickr gives is one with an iFrame, which WP doesn’t permit.

You can copy the individual file link, but that risks violating the Flickr terms of reference.

it seems the embed plugin for Flickr is only available in stand alone WP sites, so that’s out for now.

The only way I seem to be able to do it is using MarsEdit for now. And that may change anytime. So what’s left? Just storing my photos in yet another place here on WP.com.

What the hell is so great about photos that every site now wants you to store them there?????

Grrr.