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SFandH
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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.
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surabi
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Quote: Originally posted by cupcake  | 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
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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]
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David K
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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
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cupcake
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Postimages gives a number of links to choose from. Using the Direct Link works for me.
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cupcake
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| Quote: Originally posted by surabi |
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] |
My post was not in response to you. It was meant for Ateo, so he could resume making trip reports.
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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.
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surabi
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| Quote: Originally posted by cupcake | | Quote: Originally posted by surabi |
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] |
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.
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cupcake
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| Quote: Originally posted by surabi |
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.
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cupcake
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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.
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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."
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cupcake
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| Quote: Originally posted by surabi | 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.
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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."
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Cave paintings = pre-historic social medium?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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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.
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David K
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My rock art photo page: https://vivabaja.com/rock-art/
Just one of the photos is at Las Pintas:
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Perhaps some day when IT technology advances, this site will be capable of uploading photos like every other site designed after 1998.
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lencho
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| Quote: Originally posted by pacificobob | | Perhaps some day when IT technology advances, this site will be capable of uploading photos like every other site designed after 1998.
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Works just fine, if you respect the size limitations.
But today's users want everything on a silver platter. 
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| 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.
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You mentioned this before, some time ago, and I tried it, but it didn't work. (and the photo was sized correctly)
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The file size limitations were likely functional.... And then dial-up modems became obsolete.
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| Quote: Originally posted by surabi | | You mentioned this before, some time ago, and I tried it, but it didn't work. (and the photo was sized correctly) |
Damned hammer, keeps hitting my thumb. Must be defective! 
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
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| 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. 
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.
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