Posting pictures

Oak Park Jogger · Post by **Oak Park Jogger** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 3:45 pm

A description of the steps involved in posting photos would be a welcome addition to the FAQ section. A really simple way to post specific photos would be a great addition. Perhaps postings with easily uploaded photos could be held until one of the administrators had a chance to check the pictures before they appeared on line--to be certain that nothing silly like, say, pictures of golf balls made it onto the site.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:00 pm

Oh, we've had golf balls . . . if I recall correctly. Oddly, no one has posted any pornography . . . yet.

I wish posting photos or other images were super-simple. Unfortunately, the first requirement is a web host -- an online repository for the photos you wish to post here. This (like so many other things digital) has evolved over the last few years, but I believe one of the more common sources now is Flickr. Other readers may have suggestions. I employ Yahoo Small Business Web Host -- which has just changed itself into something called Aabaco Small Business. This provides me with unlimited space to store my thousands of images.

Once you have photos on a web host, the URL for any image you select can be brought here to the Message-posting window, where you will find a button called Img. Pressing this once, dropping your image URL, and pressing again will surround your URL with the appropriate code so that the image will appear in your message.

Those who wish to avoid these steps have two options: Provide a link to your Flickr or other album, so that readers can go there to look, or send me your images. I will put them in my web host and send you the URLs, so you can post them as you wish.

SDR

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:00 pm

In other words, you cannot upload photos to this website. You can only use commands to direct this site (through the image commands) to present photos you have uploaded elsewhere.

egads · Post by **egads** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:00 pm

Which is true of all sites except a few dedicated to photography I think.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:50 am

An easy and free website creation company is Weebly.com. You create a free account, make a basic website and then just dump your photos onto a page. You can then link to specific photos directly rather than send the user to a third party platform (such as Flickr) as I am doing here:

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:34 am

Thanks ! And are you going to identify the lovely subject above ? Any guesses, anybody ?

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:54 am

Unfortunately, all cars of the late 30s through the mid-40s look frumpily alike, but I would venture that it's a '46 Oldsmobile.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:04 pm

Close. Doing research online, I find that in 1942, and for the rest of the decade, all GM makes had pontoon fenders that extended into the front door.

How about a '41 Chevy:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/rexgray/4672965977/

We know that the house isn't Wright. I see stack-bond CMU (did Wright try stack-bond concrete block ? The Automatics had stack-bond custom block) and a version of board and sunk (?) batten . . .

SDR

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:29 pm

SDR wrote: We know that the house isn't Wright.

Robert Carroll May

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:47 pm

http://robertcarrollmay.weebly.com

Thank you. Not many images of May's work online; I found only the above photo !

SDR

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:42 pm

This is the Robert Carroll May designed Ford house of 1948. The interior shots are those I took on the fly about 10 years ago when I found the abandoned, soon to be demolished house sitting unlocked and unoccupied. Yes, the electricity was still on to reveal the soffit lighting!

May created a small "colony" of modern homes in Suffield, Connecticut immediately after the war. Progressive Architecture magazine both praised and condemned the designs as being too much in the Wright style. Tragically only one survives today in completely derelict condition.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:52 pm

http://robertcarrollmay.weebly.com/damon-may.html

Interior shots, Craig ?

The above-linked page tells us that May designed only two "Wright-influenced" houses -- for Clarke and for Ford, in Suffield -- after which he moved on to other idioms.

http://robertcarrollmay.weebly.com/info.html

I'll check the library on Friday to see if they have bound copies of PA from 1949. There's also the Mechanics' Institute . . .

SDR

Rood · Post by **Rood** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:18 pm

Fascinating early photos of Taliesin West at the bottom of the page: Photos of Taliesin ... Arizona Memory Project "WEBSITE"

http://robertcarrollmay.weebly.com/info.html

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:37 pm

The May/Macchi house design isn't extraordinary, but the description of the design and of the structural system are quite winning. Perhaps here's a formula for the John Howe design shown us a while back by Rob Barros. The Howe design apparently dates to 1945, while the May one is dated 1948.

http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewtopic.php?t=7545

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:11 pm

The interiors remind me of Mark Mills, and the plan reminds me of Blaine Drake.