cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/2486194
Welcome to the first ever lemmy.nz photo challenge! Also the first time I’ve tried anything like this so bear with me while I make it up as I go along. With any luck I’ll find some prompts that’ll fit everyone but definitely chip in if you have ideas or have run forum challenges before.
Rules? Rules! (but not many)
- It has to be a shot that you’ve taken yourself, I guess. There are posts all over the net sharing other peoples’ efforts but this is more about doing it yourself.
- No NSFW, since that tends to open all sorts of issues around content control and this is meant to be a bit of fun.
Okay, we’re starting off with a cliche this week, because I’m all for easing into things:
#Prompt for 20/10: Spring
Spring Rain! Get a fair bit of that in my neck of the woods…
Beautiful!
Not going to be very good at this but here’s mine:. The rain knocked heaps of blossoms off the citrus tree. It smells amazing!
I don’t think our lemon has even blossomed yet! I’ll have to keep an eye on it, citrus blossom smells divine.
I agree! I picked up a handful of this and my hands smelt really nice for ages. Whatever makes the fragrance must be an oil or something.
Replying to myself to practice image embedding:
Here’s my picture:
I haven’t weeded the garden and really need to get out there but since things are flowering the bees are starting to appear, so I’m inclined to leave it as is for now, at least until more non-weed flowers are blooming.
What a cutie!
Found this wee dude chilling on my daughter’s face after she had some play time in the sandpit.
Cute!!
Drove 4 hours round trip to visit an uncle today. Grabbed this shot in his garden as I thought the juxtaposition of blossoms with sullen grey sky seemed to summarize the changeability of spring, at least around here.
As a bonus, he couldn’t remember what this tree is (early dementia).
Oh, wow!
Is it prunus, or maybe a peach tree?
Our spring has been all over the map too - today it’s dismally grey. I love your photo, what an explosion!
What’s the “best” way to upload a photo for use in Lemmy?
You can directly upload a photo if it’s less than 5MB if you use a lemmy.nz account. Other instances may have higher or lower limits, or may have even disabled uploads.
The website has a button to add an image that triggers the upload, apps and alternate frontends may have different ways to do it.
I’d say that’s your best bet as a starting point. Note that the only way to delete a photo is by using the button that appears when you first upload it. You can’t do it later (in an emergency I can remove images but it’s not exactly easy to do). So if you want that ability then that might play into your decision.
Other options I have seen are catbox.moe for bigger photos, or uploading to pixelfed, a federated instagram alternative (e.g. at pixelfed.nz).
Sweet - Thank you for the detailed response :)
And if I were to use something like Pixelfed, it would just be a text link to it? No way to have it embedded in the comment?
I don’t think you can embed it in a fancy way, but if you copy the image URL (not the page link, but right click on the image and copy the image link) then you can use markdown to embed the image. It’s basically the same as a link but put ! in front, like so:
Ahh right - so the result will be that the viewer will be taken to the image itself and not the Pixelfed page correct?
So long as you get the link right, it will show the image within the comment.
e.g. here’s a recently posted image I just found:
https://pixelfed.nz/p/pablo/620911224907388141 and here’s what I get if I copy the image location: https://pixelfed.nz/storage/m/_v2/513250381254845674/f1538e3aa-7b3151/4bKLqhHyp7hs/yXLaNVwdRYVFUFRL4Xrzm7WARXu9hTTwJKc8jA8J.jpg
If I use markdown like so:
Then I get:
Oh right- Cool!.
Thank you for explaining the different outcomes
@sortofblue@lemmy.nz has posted the photo challenge to !offtopic@lemmy.nz but I know many of you won’t see it posted there so hence this cross-post.
It seems that the crosspost simply duplicates rather than links the threads. Does that mean we end up with two separate content and comment threads? If so, which is the preference for the photos themselves to be posted?
It does. I would say photos posted in either are entered, but probably try to keep them together if possible. Since there’s already an entry here, this one?
I’ve suggested just posting in !nz going forward. Things like this need to reach a wide audience to get participants, so I think this community is the best chance of that.
Here’s one I too a couple of weeks ago in response to a a colleague telling me the grass is always greener…
Wow, our grass doesn’t go that dry until January.
I really love that colour/colours. Seems to have come a bit early in the year though…
