Orkney Image Library

The Orkneycommunities Facebook page is now being updated automatically when new pictures are approved here, and when new News articles are published on the Orkneycommunities home page. What's not to Like?

The big pictures are on the way back. The ability to add big pictures was lost during some changes to the system earlier this year, as was the ability to view big versions of pictures that had been uploaded. The latter function has been restored, and in a way that should reduce our bandwidth requirements when checking for big versions, but for the time being you'll see a 'Check for big picture' link with each picture where the status of whether a big picture exists or not has not been checked. It's a crowdsourcing thing, like associating pictures with an area.

The ability to add new big pictures should be along again soon too, I hope, with a chunk of retrospective adding. If there are any particular big pictures you fancy, drop me a line at contact@orkneycommunities.co.uk.

Also... Note the embryonic 'Previous/Next' function on pictures, by popular request. This will take a bit of debugging, due to the different ways you can arrive at a picture viz. by chronology, area, contributor, group, album, random...

It turned out the image garbling (as we say in the trade) was due to new anti-spam software installed by Calico, our hosts. They have rolled this back and the pictures have been reconstituted. Hurray!

...for me at least. The beast that is the Orkneycommunities Charity Calendar is almost slain, and there is time to do all the things that I should have been doing, but haven't.

The pictures are picked, additional text has been written, and the poor folk at The Orcadian have many pages of obsessive instructions as to how it all goes together. 11 businesses have been cajoled to take out advertising to help underwrite the production costs.

So all that remains to do is to sell 1500 of them.

Any help is greatly appreciated- if your group or shop can sell them give me a shout. If you want to take up the remaining advertising space email me RIGHT NOW on steven@kw15.co.uk. It's £100 for 160 x 20 full-colour action-packed millimeters in the publication of the year. Can you afford not to?

In related breaking news, we are planning to launch the calendar at a 'social evening' for picture contributors, some time before the County Show. Cancel your holidays and leave the car at home, that's all I'm saying...