[This post is obsolete. The new gallery software was too temperamental and I’ve taken it offline and restored the old, reliable, gallery.]

With the help of a robotic script and all too much fiddling, I’ve copied all 750 or so the Ups & Downs photos into the new Photos section.

Why bother with this upgrade?

Mainly because I now have more publishing flexibility, including the ability to publish albums within albums. So, for instance, I moved the Return of Pickleweed Red and Fast Boats albums into the 2007 Photos: December album.

Because it’s so popular, I decided not to tuck the Battle of the Bay 2007 album inside a monthly container.

The new software lets you search photo captions, keywords and titles. Want to see a bunch of Slow Stick pix? It’s easy.

You can also enjoy automatic slideshows, with your choice of picture size up to 800 x 600 pixels.

But most fun of all are the new keywords. So far, I’ve crawled through the photos and added these keywords:

• Birds
• Combat
• Fashion
• Gliders
• Jets
• Oddballs
• PCC
• Pilots
• Slow Stick
• Toys
• Warbird
• Wings

You can build an on-the-fly keyword album by clicking a keyword under a photo. My very favorite is the Fashion album. (Incidentally, Oddballs is not about eccentric characters: it’s unusual planes.)

You can easily find the lovely lady wrestler-pilot pictured here with the Pilots keyword.

If you’d like me to add more keywords, just ask.

Postscript Feb 6, 2008: The new software had some issues which I couldn’t tame. I’ve left it in place for further experimentation, but I’ve restored the old, simpler gallery for guaranteed stability and I don’t plan to update the newfangled gallery unless I can get it to work right.

Tags: Birds, Combat, PCC, Slow Stick, Wings.

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