One minute of zen, from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, captured On This Day in 2012.
@rscottjones how/when/why do you post older travel/outdoor stuff (I've got a lot).
Curious, easing into micro.blog
Thanks
@eludom Well, I have this concept I call "Return on Adventure" rscottjon.es§+0+-+Return+on+Adventure
And because of that, I have a nearly daily practice of looking back at trip photos from this day in previous years. So I'll often post something from that daily peek back at previous trips.
@eludom most of those photos never made it to my website, but got stuck on social media, much of which I have effectively abandoned. So this is also an attempt to get some of them onto a website I control. Micro.blog also helps cross-post to mastodon/bluesky/threads for my friends there to see.
@rscottjones Very nice. I think I may try similar recovery efforts. I've got a LOT of past trips (Greece, London, Rome, Prague, Vienna, New Zealand, Australia, all over the US, tons of hiking ....).
Slowly moving into MB. I think it's going to work well.
@eludom I like micro.blog, but one thing that is more difficult than, say, Wordpress is having multi-photo blog posts. You essentially need to upload a bunch of photos and then cut/paste the html/markdown into the post. And most of the themes aren't really set up for galleries either.
You can draft your post in an external editor, I use ulysses but there are others, then use their export function to send it to Micro.blog with all the formatting, pictures, etc...
@jessekelber I did learn that a bit ago and re-subscribed to Ulysses for that very purpose (It's tried MarsEdit, but didn't like it as much). The big issue vs Wordpress is most themes don't allow "gallery" or photo slider layouts where I could better display a large grouping of photos with captions.
@rscottjones Gotcha. Have you looked at any of the photo plug-ins? There's one called Justified Swipebox that creates galleries. From the web app, click on 'plug-ins' on the left then sort by Photos and take a look—maybe something there will work for you?
@jessekelber I did, thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I think it's too complex for my wife to use. One problem with the indieweb is that it's not geared towards normies at all.
Gotcha, and Yeah, I agree 100%.
I keep trying other options for that exact reason, yet here I am returning to Micro.blog anyway. I am a *former IT professional turned writer and have spent the last 7+ years intentionally trying to lose whatever tech BS was still floating around my brain...sigh.