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Photo Directory Update: January

I started contributing to the WordPress Photo Directory back in August 2023 and alongside Jonathan Desrosiers and Jeff Golenski have a friendly challenge going in 2024 to competitively contribute to the Photo Directory. I will try and post monthly recaps to “keep myself honest” this year, so let’s get started with results from my January submissions!

Jonathan is keeping record of photos of his that get accepted, rejected, or are still pending, but I’m going to take a simpler route and just track ones that are accepted. Before January, I had 2 photos accepted and as the month wraps up that number has increased by 12 to 14 photos in the directory.

The following images have been synced to Openverse and thus easier to embed via the Image block’s “Select Image” flow to embed images from Openverse. As Jonathan noted there’s a delay from when images are approved and appear in the WordPress Photo Directory and when they sync over to Openverse; it used to be a monthly sync and has been updated to weekly, but would seem that a daily (or even hourly or real-time) sync would help. That way folks who contribute to the Photo Directory could most easily utilize those images right away in their own posts (and others would more quickly benefit from the additional photo content as well).

“Church of San Giorgio Maggiore viewed through stained glassed windows and columns of the Doge’s Palace” by Jeffrey Paul/ CC0 1.0
Emmy Statue at sunset in the courtyard of the Academy of Television
Emmy Statue at sunset in the courtyard of the Academy of Television by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Grace Building in New York City viewed at an upward angle towards the top of the skyscraper
Grace Building in New York City viewed at an upward angle towards the top of the skyscraper by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Strokkur geyser in along the golden circle in geysir, iceland
Strokkur geyser in along the golden circle in geysir, iceland by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Chicago River and surrounding skyscrapers at sunset as viewed from the rooftop patio at The Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown
Chicago River and surrounding skyscrapers at sunset as viewed from the rooftop patio at The Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Beachside pool, cabanas, and palm trees at sunset at the JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa
Beachside pool, cabanas, and palm trees at sunset at the JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

The following photos are ones that are also accepted to the Photo Directory, but have not yet synced to Openverse so I’m attaching these by their Photo Directory image URLs and manually adding the attribution as the photo caption. Yes, its inconvenient. Also inconvenient that the Photo Directory oEmbed looks super wonky, which is better than the fact that respective Openverse images don’t have an oEmbed at all. 🤷

a view of a city with a mountain in the background
View of the Washington Monument during sunset from the rooftop patio at the Hotel Washington by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
a tree in front of a building
The Abbey Resort & Avani Spa at sunset in Fontana-On-Geneva Lake, Wisconsin by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
a large ship in a body of water with Chicago River in the background
Lila sightseeing tour boat on the Chicago River with The River Theater on the Riverwalk in the background by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
a sign on the side of the street
Sidewalk sign with the text “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision to reality” by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
Bobby Cox statue outside Truist Park in Vinings, Georgia by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0
a sign on a sidewalk
Olympic Rings statue located in Centennial Olympic Park (Atlanta, Georgia) by Jeffrey Paul is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

There are some user experiences I don’t like about submitting to the Photo Directory, about searching for Openverse images (via the Image block and differently via the Block Inserter), about the lack of Openverse oEmbed support, and about how images are (or are not) ingested into the Media Library. I’ll work on a follow-up post about those in hopes I might be able to get some of those things a bit more polished for a nicer publishing experience next month. Until then, submit those photos folks!

P.S. – that featured image came from Openverse in searching for “January” and is Harper’s January by Boston Public Library is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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    The featured image is based on the prompt Please create a square logo for a series entitled “Four Short Things” that is busy and includes a wide variety of icons. It should include the specific text “Four Short Things” used on ChatGPT 4. Office Mandates Have No Effect Or at least no positive one as this short video […]

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