Here is my entry or The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge with the topic of Today Was a Good Day. ENJOY! Have a great weekend everyone.
This was the last time Chris and I went to the beach. We had a fun day and everywhere we turned we were delighted by new sights and experiences. (click on photo to see larger views)
We arrived early on the beach to find these footprints in the sand.
We sat for about an hour talking and photographing seagulls as the sun rose.
The the man with the large bubble maker made an appearance.
Driving down the coast we were able to do some whale watching.
Then we were fortunate enough to watch the US Coast Guard practice maneuvers at Depoe Bay.
We we got back to Lincoln City and ate a a cliff side restaurant, this was one of the view directly below.
And last we had some delicious dessert after a scrumptious meal.
Here is the Mesh version. My response is I don’t like it. As you can tell it doesn’t leave the photos as the size we crop them. To crops the photos. You can click on any photo to make the photo be screen size, but the resolution is not good. I would have to save my photos at a much higher resolution and I don’t want to take up that much memory on my blog.
Qi (energy) hugs
Cee
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A good day, Cee. Love the bubble maker.
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Hi Jane, thanks. It was fun water the bubble maker. 😀
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I have to agree that this describes a perfectly good day!
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Aww tanks Joanne.
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That DOES sound like an excellent day. Sometimes I wish I lived near a beach, but there just aren’t any beaches in the midwest. 😦
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Nope not in the mid-west. I am only 2 hours away. 😀 thanks for your comment.
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What a lovely day you had. My challenge day involved some beach time as well… I wonder how many other perfect days will?
Totally agree with you about mesh. Blech. I don’t know about the iPhone interface, but the Web version is useless. Draganddrop ordering is broke, and you can’t caption images. Wasted an hour of my time trying to create one.
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I agree with you totally on Mesh. Thanks for commenting.
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What a fun day Cee! Love the bubbles and the seagulls.
I tried out Mesh too, but gave up after several attempts and posted a gallery instead. I like the look of it inside your post, but have to agree about the resolution issue. Not quite sure I see the point either!
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Thanks Katie for your opinion. It is much more bothersome than helpful.
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I gave up on mesh too, Cee, and for different reasons. One it was far slower than setting up a gallery in WP normally, and two, it doesn’t allow captioning each photo in the desktop version.
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I couldn’t figure out how to caption the photos either. Good point. 😀
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Thanks for the critique of the mesh gallery. I thought about using it, but felt too busy to learn something new. I don’t quite understand when they say in the description that you can share the gallery with anyone… Can’t you do that with the regular WP, just by sending someone the link to your page containing the gallery? I don’t understand the advantage.
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Well said. Blog page links are easy to send to any. 😀 Thanks for commenting and adding in your opinion.
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Your photos make me realize how ready I am for another visit to the coast!
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Chris and I are going to Astoria in early October, I can’t wait.
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Amazing shots. Love the dessert, looks yummy.
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Thanks for commenting.
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Great shots. I agree with your comments on the qualities of the Mesh version, the photos seem to have lost their life. I’ve had some reservations anyway in recent weeks about the quality of photos I’ve posted on WordPress not being as high def/res as the originals.
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Unfortunately on a computer screen your screen won’t ever be as high def as your originals. I’d leave Mesh alone.
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I only ever see my photos on a computer screen, but in Picasa (lately I should say) the definition has been better than it is on the WordPress screen. If you click on the photo itself on the WordPress screen, it reverts to its former high def. That wasn’t always the case, I’m fairly convinced. But as you say, Mesh isn’t for me.
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No I don’t like Mesh either. Thanks Sandra for commenting.
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Oh what great shots and I want some of that cheese cake-yum!!
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🙂 It was delicious.
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Lovely shots. The comparison of a gallery and Mesh is great. Thanks for taking the time to do both. I see that it is a iPone app too. I wonder if Automatic is trying to market products that could be used without having a WordPress blog? Have a great weekend.
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Hi Marie, I think you are right, because it isn’t strictly a WP thing. Thanks for commenting. Have a great weekend.
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Beautiful images Cee. And thanks for sharing your experience with Mesh. Being slow to change myself, I went with single photos and the standard gallery this week but it was valuable to learn from (see) your experience.
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Thanks Lisa for your feedback. 😀
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You have some great photos today
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Thanks Raewyn.
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How fun! As much as I love my photos and sharing them, the ones of my daily life are the most fun to go back and look at later. They’re not high art, but they are my memories of a life well lived. Tell Chris I said hi.
Nancy
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She says hi back at you. It’s the ordinary that makes our lives happy. The extraordinary, like this day, is fun and memorable. I did a post today and just went through photos I liked. It was hard to chose from the tens of thousands that I have. I could have gone so many directions, but I kept it to fairly normal activities.
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Either way you present it, your day looks wonderful.
janet
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Thanks Janet 😀
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I’m just having a place and so far it’s too slow!
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Have a great weekend.
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I’m not sure if I could mesh my photos. Sounds a bit challenging and I can understand why you didn’t like it, but your photos are still great. I do love that you included that last one with the bird’s feet in the sand 🙂
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Thanks Robin. 😀
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Great selections for the good day! 🙂
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Thanks Amy!
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I too like seeing all the photos at once. There is enough photography and blogging to learn every day Mesh is not where I want to put my attention. Thanks for reviewing it and saving me the headache.
Love your beach day, complete with pie!!
Happy weekend
C
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Don’t bother with Mesh it is not that good. 😀
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Seems you had lot of fun ! Great pics.
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Thanks for commenting 😀
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Wow! I read the challenge as allowing us to combine things from a lot of different days into a collage portraying a good day. I’m delighted that you actually saw all of these things in one day!
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That actually happens to us a lot. Although this day was very special. 😀 Thanks Mary.
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Love the photos – I am not getting Mesh at all and I can usually pick these things up. Odd!
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There are no directions and I don’t think it is that user friendly either. Thanks for commenting.
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Have a great weekend too Cee. Great day!!
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Hope you have a fabulous weekend yourself. 😀
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I like expression of the black and white photo…
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Thanks so much for commenting.
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The birds’ paw prints look like little arrows pointing to where each bird landed and began their walk. So pretty.
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Glad you like it that photo. Thanks.
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I so love the beach. Miss it…..thank you for sharing a part of your life. Hugs
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This post shows only about half of the magic day we had. Every time we turned we saw something else. Talk about a day that was inspiring. Thanks for commenting.
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