Update 11/5/2019
All the photos that were pointing to Picasaweb, Google Plus and Google Photos have now been relinked to copies and better ones on Flickr. In the process some ugly ones were dropped and some duplicates removed. Any new photos you send to us at photos@friendsofsilverbrook.org will be posted to Flickr as well.
Thank you in advance!
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Update 6/5/2019
We've successfully moved the photos to their new home on Flickr. There are about 12,000 grave listings that will need to be relinked to these manually. The backend programs have been converted to search the new repository. The Photo Search drop down under the Photos tab in the toolbar will let you search the photo albums.
In this process, we will prune some of the uglier pics. It's obvious many need to be reshot. If you have an interest in photography and would like to help us out, please send your snapshots to photos@friendsofsilverbrook.org. It helps if the files you send are named LastName,FirstName.jpg.
Thanks!
--Bob.
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4/15/2019
Like all best laid plans, it pays to have one more plan "B."
Several years ago, we moved from a stand-alone photo repository to Picasaweb by Google because it was easy to use, had a lot of capacity, and it was free. We still have some old photos on their readonly website, get.google.com. But we can't add any more there.
When Google decided to shut down that service, we moved to Google Plus. There was a lot of work to convert our software to point to that service. We spent a lot of volunteer hours to support that website. It was great while it lasted.
Then we got a notice that our photos were copied to Google Photos--but in an entirely different format. We just didn't have the time or the energy to do that conversion excersie again.
As of April 1, 2019, Google shut down Google Plus. All of our links to Google Plus now have an ugly error message that you can see here www.plus.google.com. We've changed the display code to hide the photo icon if a photo points to Google Plus.
We did save all the photos and their descriptions. It will take us a while to upload them some place a bit more stable. We've been disappointed by Google twice on this and don't want to work with them a third time.
We appreciate your patience on this.
Bob Nightingale, webmaster