WNBR 2023.
 

Just use windows photo edit and resize the image or rotate it like this.

Image orientation
 

Thanks for the thorough explanation.

Part of the problem is the unpredictability of whether whatever software is displaying the image rotates the image or not. No doubt there are different ways of dealing with this.

My way is:

1. Load the image into Paint.net and rotate it so it's the right way up. Then save.

2. Then run the image through a little program called JPG cleaner. That removes all the EXIF information and any flag that tells display software to rotate the image from the version on your disk (as now the version on your disk is right way up as a result of step 1).

I do step 2 routinely before uploading images onto OCC as it removes any personal identity information about the woman etc. from the image.

Paint.net and JPG cleaner are both free software. Paint.net is really useful for editing, like cropping, changing brightness and making collages. JPG cleaner cleans individual images or whole batches in seconds.

Here are some pictures from Philadelphia, August 26 2023

I've many hundreds of pictures, but many are not in formats that this uploader likes.... i also have tons of videos -- some very high quality-- many gig per file, some less data intensive . I am not sure if they can be uploaded here or not?

A few more...
I'm not sure if these are working?

Would be very interested in any pics or videos you have! You can also upload via mega or something like that.

The ones you tried to attach to the previous post didn’t come through but these two did, and they’re beautiful.

Happy to provide any more complex tech help on DM, but the short summary is:
* Images pretty much need to be JPG
* Videos go onto the Videos section of the forum or a 3rd party upload site, and I don’t know if they have any way of letting you upload if you don’t pay for a subscription, which seems really unfortunate when you come in bearing so much original stuff to share
* The attachment interface isn’t very intuitive (the way you upload to a popup window and have to hit the Upload button after selecting all your files individually, but then they get previewed in the non-popup main tab). But it looks like you figured it out
* For large file uploads on a 3rd party site, we usually use gofile.io and mega.nz. Wish you didn’t have to jump through an extra hoop, but they’re both really easy to use and link to

If you don't want to go through the hassle of converting all of the pictures to jpeg one by one, you could always batch them into zip files and upload them that way. That's not as fun or interactive as curating your collection as you upload it, but it's less labor intensive. Or perhaps a combination of the two methods would work--posting the pictures you want to take the time to convert, and mass-uploading the rest?

As for the videos, you could either upload them to the video section; or if you wanted to keep everything in this thread, you could upload them off-site to someplace like gofile or mega, and then link them here.

a couple more pictures from Philly, August 26, 2023

i have literally many thousands of pictures from 2021, 2022 and 2023... but many of them are junk, so finding the gems takes some effort.

I took some (like the above) as snapshots with phones (apple 12&10, pixel 7&5&4a), and those pictures are much more likely to be good without much editing -- there are maybe 700 or so of those spread across the three years. But i also had a GoPro strapped to my head one year, taking a picture a second of wherever i happened to be looking. There are some good pictures in amongst those, but they have to be cropped and the light has to be adjusted. I had been doing all of this in Flickr (for maybe 200 pictures/year?), which was great, because the interface was easy and i could crop/edit the pictures as i uploaded them ... but Flickr killed my account :(. I really miss what flickr used to be!

I also have had various cameras shooting videos every year. a gopro on my helmet pointing forward for parts of all three 21/22/23. a phone camera strapped to my seat facing backwards in 22 that caught GREAT footage... except the mount slowly sagged, until it was just catching people's knees .... d'oh! ( i would set it back up occasionally, and it would get 5 minutes of good footage before it sagged again. but i was mostly enjoying the ride, and not thinknig about the camera). in 2023 i had a webcam on my bike pointing back. a cheap knockoff-gopro on a handlebar pointing back to the left, and a pixel 7 pointing back to the right. the webcam was pointing at the "bodypaint table" for all of the pre-game tailgating, and the faux-GoPro did the same for some of it..... so i have 331 one-minute webcam videos (they are "hi-def", but not very high quality...but caught some happy things )-- that camera got jostled by the ride, too and ended up pointing down a bit eventually :( ...... the faux gopro caught decent 3 minute clips under the shade trees in the pre-game, but didn't handle glare from the low in the horizon sun very well during the actual ride. the webcame had alot of that sun flare, as well. the pixel 7 took beautiful footage!! ---- but a lot of it was of spectators along the sidewalk :-/. i got maybe 45 minutes of footage from that before the battery pooped out, of which maybe 5 or 10 minutes was magnifique! i occasionally go through these videos and screen-cap pictures, but this interface hasn't been accepting those-- what ever format macbook makes things (i hate the macbook , and can figure out WHAT it has done, when i try to transfer its output to any other platform)

all of this rambling meandering post taken together... i have lots of raw footage, but haven't even looked at a lot of it, much less cleaned it up.