Posting Pictures and Where to Post

[dozer]

There has been some discussion as of late on the best location to post pictures, within the thread itself or in the forum picture gallery.

It is really up to you. The forum gallery provides a place to organize lots of pictures into various albums, which may help in conveying information in an organized format, where posting to the forum is more suitable for 'tell it as it happened' story with associated pictures. Either format can be mixed and matched as desired.

An example of a good 'as it happened' forum story with pictures

An example of a good forum gallery entry

As you can see from the individual examples, one set was posted contemporaneously while the story progressed and one was posted after the project was completed.