Gallery

Are there any plans for the Gallery? I, hopefully along with many of you, occasionally click on one of the interesting thumbnails from the gallery that appear on the right side of the Portal screen. However I rarely use it for more than a couple of minutes.
I believe that this vast resource is going to waste.
I find it virtually unuseable to search on, because so few of the pictures are named. The catagories are in need of an update too. I understand that historically this forum has had a large interest in the Holocaust. Nearly half of the Gallery's searchable catagories seem to be Holocaust related. While there is no catagory for Allied Tanks or vehicles.
I would like to offer my services to identify and name some of the numbered pictures. How do you suggest I can do this? Is it possible to amend the current name? Or would I have to use the Comments box.

Also, would it be possible to add an code box, so that we could link to the pictures directly?

Let's get this done.

For example, does anyone know what this is? Gallery picture #5310

 

An interesting previous thread, dating from around the time that I joined the forum.
I had not seen it before. I will start chipping away at the vehicles then.
BTW #5310 is, I think, a Polish Ursus Wz 29. Rare to find a picture of it even in black & white.

 

Adam

As Bill Shakespeare so aptly put it " Aye, there's the rub !"

It is now nine months since I made the original plea http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/10308-does-drive-anyone-else-nuts.html
for some form of caption to be given to a least some of these brilliant and evocative images.

I would still desperately like to know who the young ladies were with their Shields of David so proudly displayed. If Lee cannot supply the answer, could he at least allow me to investigate myself by releasing the copyright to me while I offer the image around for identification ?
It would also be of help to have the original photo in jpg format.

 

I would still desperately like to know who the young ladies were with their Shields of David so proudly displayed. If Lee cannot supply the answer, could he at least allow me to investigate myself by releasing the copyright to me while I offer the image around for identification ?
It would also be of help to have the original photo in jpg format.

Surely the copyright does not belong to Lee? does it. I would of thought that all of this material is well into the public domain by now.

 

I dont know the limitations on copyright with regard to pictures but I hardly think that Lee has copyrights to all these photos. Some of these have been "doing the rounds" as it where on the web but one thing is for sure, we have a real asset on our hands with that gallery and its going to take work by all of us not just to caption each photo but also to ensure that the captions are correct!! The Technical ones will be easy enough I would reckon but the personal ones may be next to impossible to identify. Maybe we owe it to the people in the photos to try and caption them properly.

 

Maybe we owe it to the people in the photos to try and caption them properly.


Exactly

Ron

 

The photo gallery is how I found this forum to begin with. I tooled around for a day or so before realizing that there was a forum attached to it, or rather the gallery was attached to a forum.

I have several thousand pics, mostly of US subjects. I tried to contact Lee several times about adding them to the gallery, he nevered bothered to even reply to me. I guess it was too much trouble for him or he was too busy with something else.

 

Please don't think that I am trying to push you, Adam. I just want to make sure that the gallery remains a part of the forum.

I like pictures, they're fun to use with my color crayons.

 

Thanks for the explanation, Adam.

When you get the gallery stood up correctly, I am willing to work on naming the pics, if y'all will risk letting a Yank having a hand at it.

I think I can spell Bernard Law Montgomery without putting "Old Maid" in his name.:p

 

The site changed hands six times before finding our current safe & stable harbour and was merged with other forums twice,


In light of this little well-known tidbit, it is amazing to me that there those who took issue with Otto "taking over" (as it was phrased in a certain PM sent by or on the behalf of a certain nameless Scotsman).

 

the section ww 2 in colour, Germany # 1311 of the backwards taken Ju 88G-6 is under Danish copyright and needs to be removed at once !

E ~

 

The previous owner, the same one who uploaded the image in question here, wasn't able to remember the password for the gallery

That's choice. Stand up a site and not keep basic records of mildly important aspects of the site. I guess that partially explains why he would never respond to me.

 

well in my venacular sayings " that sucks ! "

 

What's the craic with that, please? Am I missing something ~ other than a constant stream of tormentingly, just unviewable and absolutely fascinating looking images?

It's doing my head in! I see So Many shrunken down little images of posters and such that I'd dearly love to examine. Yet all we have is the 'explanation' that, 'Sorry. Maybe, one day .....'.

Is there something that was said before I got here? Anything that can be said now? Any hope? Or are they all just stuck in a cyber time warp? To be paraded past us in miniature. Tantalising.