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This forum.

Care to post a trip report or something of interest? Been to San Juanico lately?

Tioloco - 4-2-2026 at 08:20 AM

ateo & lencho-
The original post was that the "Baja ocean water is boiling hot"... Not exactly a great start to an educational thread. You can always keep scrolling.... or better yet start a new thread with something of interest or value to share and discuss?
Peace and prosperity, brother and sister nomads.

Ateo - 4-2-2026 at 01:46 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco

This forum.

Care to post a trip report or something of interest? Been to San Juanico lately?

Hey Tio,

I stopped posting trip reports due to the insane amount of time it took to upload photos. I'm very proud of those reports as they were pages and pages long. Unfortunately I watched those photos get used by scumbag Nomad posters from the OT on other websites to slander myself and my family. All the while the owner of this site didn't ban the scumbags or it took him quite a while for him to. So I'm done here other than checking in to here from old friends from time to time. Damn time flies - all that was over 10 years ago!

San Juanico is still rad!

Ateo - 4-2-2026 at 01:48 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lencho

Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco

... or better yet start a new thread with something of interest or value to share and discuss?

Great idea. If it were possible to carry on a civil discussion without personal attacks and name calling from the usual suspects.
At this point, why would anyone try to start a serious discussion on this site. :?:

Those days have passed. :no:

My sentiments exactly. You have a way with words! Ha ha.

Tioloco - 4-2-2026 at 02:47 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Tioloco

This forum.

Care to post a trip report or something of interest? Been to San Juanico lately?

Ateo, I totally get it about uploading any attachments here. I don't do it for the same reason.
Sorry you had such a bad experience in the OT.

Glad San Juanico still has your heart, amigo. Thats what it's all about!

surabi - 4-2-2026 at 03:42 PM

I stopped posting trip reports due to the insane amount of time it took to upload photos.

I follow a few different forums on various topics. This is the only forum that requires users to upload photos to a third party site and then download them. Every other forum has an attachment button where you can simply attach your photo from your files in a few seconds.

[Edited on 4-2-2026 by surabi]

cupcake - 4-4-2026 at 11:03 AM

Upload your photo to postimages.org. Copy the link to the photo after uploading.

Post link here surrounded by these characters:

[img=500x]link[/img]

https://postimages.org/

Forrest Nymphs in the San Gabriels

[Edited on 4-5-2026 by cupcake]

David K - 4-4-2026 at 11:13 AM

I get it that Nomad has not made photo posting insanely easy, like Facebook... BUT, it isn't that hard to follow the steps I have shared here (at the top of the photo gallery forum)...

To post photos from your Pictures folder on your computer...

Go to www.Postimages.org, make an album if you want to organize your photos to find them easily in the future (by date or by subject). No cost to use Postimages.org.

1) Change the upload setting from "Do not resize my image" to 640x480 (recommended for forums) or 800x600 (max. on Nomad). You click on the little arrow to see the size choices.

2) Click "Choose images" and select the photos you want to put on Nomad from your Pictures folder.

3) Click on the image you want on Nomad and click on "Share" at the top of the screen.

4) Choose "Hotlinks for forums" (down next to the last one). You can click the little box at the right end of the link and it is now saved on your mouse.

5) Go to Nomad and paste that link onto the place where you are typing on Nomad.
You can put text in below the photo for a caption for your post and if you double space between photo links (for clarity), you can put several photos and captions in a single post on Nomad. You can click "Preview" on Nomad to check and see how it will look before posting to the board.

If you need to fix a post after it is done, click on "Edit" along the edge of your post, and change or delete your post. If you edit more than once, you can delete the previous Edited on tags so only one edit tag will appear after you edit the post.
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SFandH - 4-4-2026 at 12:09 PM

This photo was uploaded from my computer to bajanomad by clicking the "post reply" button beneath the post you're replying to, then selecting the photo with the "choose file" button. No need to put the photo on another website first, at least not for this thread.

[Edited on 4-5-2026 by SFandH]

David K - 4-4-2026 at 12:29 PM

No need if the photo is already on another site. My information is for personal photos on your computer. They must be 'hosted' before adding to Nomad unless you reduce the file size that may hurt the image clarity.

There are other methods... I only offered the Post Images one that has worked well, since Photobucket changed the deal on us a few years ago.

SFandH - 4-4-2026 at 12:40 PM

The photo I posted above was on my computer. I did not have to upload it to another site or reduce the file size or dimensions; I just added it as an attachment.

Upload size limit is 486kB. Image limit is 2200x2200.

[Edited on 4-5-2026 by SFandH]

surabi - 4-4-2026 at 02:36 PM

Upload your photo to postimages.org. Copy the link to the photo after uploading.

Post link here surrounded by these characters:

[img=500x]link[/img]

https://postimages.org/

Forrest Nymphs in the San Gabriels

[Edited on 4-4-2026 by cupcake]

Completely irrelevant to my comment. Yes, I understand the photo posting instructions. I said no other forum requires uploading first to a third party site-all you did was verify the convoluted process for posting photos here.

[Edited on 4-4-2026 by surabi]

David K - 4-5-2026 at 09:22 AM

Yet, most still are not able to add photos here...
I was simply adding an option if the methods used by you both don't work for others.
Happy Easter

cupcake - 4-5-2026 at 11:00 AM

Upload your photo to postimages.org. Copy the link to the photo after uploading.

Post link here surrounded by these characters:

[img=500x]link[/img]

https://postimages.org/

Postimages gives a number of links to choose from. Using the Direct Link works for me.

cupcake - 4-5-2026 at 11:07 AM

Upload your photo to postimages.org. Copy the link to the photo after uploading.

Post link here surrounded by these characters:

[img=500x]link[/img]

https://postimages.org/

[Edited on 4-4-2026 by cupcake]

My post was not in response to you. It was meant for Ateo, so he could resume making trip reports.

surfhat - 4-5-2026 at 11:31 AM

The ease of contributing photos to this, in my opinion only, invaluable resource could be more accommodating.

After more than fifty years of loving Baja and especially the graciousness I have been given without asking when needed by locals, deserves to be honored.

The personal library I myself shot might be worthy of appreciation at some future point in time when the process becomes easier for all who love Baja tom contribute.

In the meantime, our treasured David's effort and contributions, are always and eternally much appreciated.

Happy Easter to all Baja Nomad lovers.

surabi - 4-5-2026 at 11:46 AM

My post was not in response to you. It was meant for Ateo, so he could resume making trip reports.

But Ateo didn't indicate that he didn't know how to upload photos to this site. He said he doesn't post his photos because of the insane amount of time to do so.

cupcake - 4-5-2026 at 12:35 PM

But Ateo didn't indicate that he didn't know how to upload photos to this site. He said he doesn't post his photos because of the insane amount of time to do so.

So I figured he might be using a different photo posting procedure...because using the method I posted takes only seconds. Reportedly, there are a number of ways to post a photo on this site.

cupcake - 4-5-2026 at 12:46 PM

The above five photos were posted in about 2 minutes.

This was my graffiti removal work yesterday. It's a work in progress and will look much better after I get back up there for the second session.

You can download an image to your computer by right-clicking on the image and selecting 'save image as...'. Then you can enlarge that downloaded image for a better view. My day pack and trekking poles can be seen in the first image for scale...this was a big graffiti and takes a lot more work to remove it than it does to spray paint it on. So much work that many anti-graffiti artists are choosing to just paint over the graffiti, which is much easier and faster than removing it. This boulder is about eight feet high.

Finished this one yesterday and handed it off to Mother Nature. The sun, rain, snow, and wind will do the rest.

[Edited on 4-8-2026 by cupcake]

surabi - 4-5-2026 at 02:17 PM

I have always found it curious that people are so upset by graffiti, yet are thrilled to see cave paintings, ancient carvings in rocks, etc., which is essentially the same thing.

Don't get me wrong- I hate to see natural features defaced with taggings (especially ones as ugly as those pictured), however, I have seen some quite artistic graffiti that I don't find offensive at all. A wall covered in artistic graffiti really isn't any different from a wall painted by a commissioned artist, aside from the fact that one did it because they just wanted to, and one did because they got paid.

Jean-Michel Basquiat started out as a graffiti artist in Manhattan and went on to become a famous artist.

"Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where disco, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.

Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism.

In 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red-and-yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased."

cupcake - 4-5-2026 at 04:18 PM

I have always found it curious that people are so upset by graffiti, yet are thrilled to see cave paintings, ancient carvings in rocks, etc., which is essentially the same thing.

Don't get me wrong- I hate to see natural features defaced with taggings (especially ones as ugly as those pictured), however, I have seen some quite artistic graffiti that I don't find offensive at all.

I've wrestled with these same thoughts, and there have been articles written expressing the same feelings. People like me will pay a considerable amount of money to journey to and visit ancient rock painting sites, but then spend money and time removing modern graffiti. I tried to make a distinction, by differentiating art from vandalism, but failed. There is obviously some artistic modern graffiti, while some obviously non-artistic graffiti from centuries past, i.e. pioneers who did nothing more artistic than to carve their name and date into rock during their westward travel.

Even with the graffiti in my photos above, an indication of the feelings that the 'artist' had at the time they painted it can perhaps be indicated by the heart in their painting. It looks like they were compelled by love to make that expression.

When I queried the internet, it told me this:

"People often perceive modern graffiti as vandalism while admiring ancient cave paintings as art due to a combination of legal, social, historical, and aesthetic factors. The core differences lie in the context of the markings, the rarity of the ancient work, and the perceived disruption of public or private space.

Here is a breakdown of why these two forms of "marking walls" are viewed differently:

1. Legality and Property Rights (Vandalism vs. History)
Modern Graffiti: Often created without permission on private or public property, it is legally considered vandalism. It is viewed as an intrusion, causing unwanted costs for removal.
Cave Paintings: Were created in a context where ownership of caves was likely communal or non-existent, and no one is around to press charges. They are viewed through a historical lens, often protected by law.

2. Rarity and Time
Modern Graffiti: It is omnipresent and frequently replenished, leading to it being seen as a "plague" or "blight" on the landscape, particularly when it appears as simple "tagging".
Cave Paintings: They are rare, fragile, and irreplaceable remnants of human ancestors. Their age imbues them with a sense of "mystery and history" that makes them inherently appealing.

3. Intent and Context
Modern Graffiti: Often subversive, political, or territorial, designed to provoke a reaction or claim space.
Cave Paintings: Though they may have been "graffiti" in their time (e.g., teenagers doodling or shamanic markings), we lack the social context to see them as disrespectful. Instead, they are interpreted as "significant communication" or ritual art.

4. Aesthetic Appreciation and "Quality"
Modern Graffiti: Some modern street art is highly regarded, but many tags are low-effort, chaotic, or not appreciated by the general public.
Cave Paintings: The distance of time allows viewers to appreciate the skill and artistic expression behind the imagery (e.g., animals, hunts, handprints), ignoring the possibility that they were, at the time, scribbles.

5. Social Perception and "Order"
Modern Graffiti: Is often associated with urban decay, gang activity, and a breakdown of civic order.
Cave Paintings: Connect us to our "earliest ancestors," acting as a "beautiful reminder" of human expression."

[Edited on 4-5-2026 by cupcake]

AKgringo - 4-5-2026 at 04:40 PM

Cave paintings = pre-historic social medium?

surabi - 4-5-2026 at 04:44 PM

I've thought of drawing a cartoon of a cave-dwelling family, a teenage boy standing there with some sort of primitive painting implement in hand, in front of a cave painting, with his mother yelling at him- "I just washed that wall! Stop with the damn graffiti!"

And another with a bunch of futuristic-looking humanoids curiously examining gang tags, positing various theories about what they could possibly mean and tell them about, what to them, are ancient humans.

David K - 4-6-2026 at 07:29 AM

My rock art photo page: https://vivabaja.com/rock-art/

Just one of the photos is at Las Pintas:

pacificobob - 4-6-2026 at 09:28 AM

Perhaps some day when IT technology advances, this site will be capable of uploading photos like every other site designed after 1998.

surabi - 4-6-2026 at 04:18 PM

Quote: Originally posted by SFandH

This photo was uploaded from my computer to bajanomad by clicking the "post reply" button beneath the post you're replying to, then selecting the photo with the "choose file" button. No need to put the photo on another website first, at least not for this thread.

You mentioned this before, some time ago, and I tried it, but it didn't work. (and the photo was sized correctly)

pacificobob - 4-6-2026 at 05:52 PM

The file size limitations were likely functional.... And then dial-up modems became obsolete.

BajaNomad - 4-7-2026 at 02:55 PM

Quote:

This is the only forum that requires users to upload photos to a third party site and then download them. Every other forum has an attachment button where you can simply attach your photo from your files in a few seconds.

Lack of attention to detail. :rolleyes:

This site has the ability to upload photos - just not in classifieds and off-topic.... as for those two sections, the resources and storage needed to store/host images is left to be the responsibility of the person that wants to post graphics.

[Edited on 4-7-2026 by BajaNomad]

BajaNomad - 4-7-2026 at 03:04 PM

Quote: Originally posted by pacificobob

The file size limitations were likely functional.... And then dial-up modems became obsolete.

I think I originally limited the file attachment size to 50kb... and have expanded it over time. If left unlimited, then users upload mega-sized files... which causes page load time issues (affecting user experience)... and higher storage size requirements on the server.

And yes, one of the factors along the way was the % of people attempting to access the site with slow connection speeds in Mexico... not so much USA and Canada. fwiw.

[Edited on 4-7-2026 by BajaNomad]

cupcake - 4-7-2026 at 06:38 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K

My rock art photo page: https://vivabaja.com/rock-art/

Just one of the photos is at Las Pintas:

Beautiful webpage, David. Don't know how I missed it before. Thanks for the link.

David K - 4-7-2026 at 06:45 PM

Thank you Doug.
I think what most here who are challenged with the process would like is something that automatically sizes and displays photos in the manner that Facebook does.
Frequently photos are so large (well over 800 pixels) that you need to trim them so the text and photo doesn't require scrolling to the right.
It would make life easier for you, too.
In any case, thank you for 24 years of this forum!!

David K - 4-7-2026 at 06:49 PM