If you’ve been reading me a while, you probably also know that I’m mostly a writer and a geek and an amateur musician. You may also know that periodically I like to take pictures on my iPhone.
Up till now I’ve generally posted my pics both on Facebook and on Flickr. I’ve been using the latter site in particular because while I’m active on Facebook, I also want to have a way for people who aren’t on Facebook to actually see what pictures I take.
This has been lovely up till now. The problem, though, is that as of January 2019 Flickr is moving to a model of allowing free accounts only 1,000 pictures and/or videos. My problem: I have over 1,400 photos there.
Now I have two considerations before me:
- I don’t quite care enough about Flickr to want to pony up for a Pro account there.
- I do actually have my very own web server.
So this is me playing around with using annathepiper.org as a place to archive older photos. Right now I’m using a WordPress plugin called FooGallery, which offers some really nice UI for album-creating and gallery-creating purposes.
I don’t expect this to be high-traffic. If I turn out to be wrong, I’ll have to tweak the gallery functionality accordingly, and/or post significantly smaller pics than what I can pull off my phone. (Because y’all don’t really need to be downloading full 8 megapixel pics off my phone, do you? Though if you like one of my photos and you DO want the full version, hey, that’s what Dropbox is for.)
Anyhow, let’s see how this works.