Closed Labeling Photos: What you like, and don't like?

[Simon Hampel]

If writing dates, to avoid confusion, they should always be specified as either DD MMM YYYY ... eg 22 Feb 2012.

Never DDMMYYYY or MMDDYYYY.

Either way, I don't really care about the day of the month ... so Feb 2012 is perfectly adequate and actually preferable.

If I make such a thing compulsory in the next version of the gallery, there will be a date entry field which will be set up in such a way as to make it impossible to get it confused.

 

[AnaheimZoo]

And Sim, I assume that if this date organization is put into effect, then galleries will no longer have photos in order of when the last post was?

 

[Maguari]

And Sim, I assume that if this date organization is put into effect, then galleries will no longer have photos in order of when the last post was?

I imagine that, as now, you could sort the gallery by any field you want. If you click on the column headers you can sort by date uploaded, last comment, number of comments etc, and I woould think any new version would be the same.

 

[AnaheimZoo]

I imagine that, as now, you could sort the gallery by any field you want. If you click on the column headers you can sort by date uploaded, last comment, number of comments etc, and I woould think any new version would be the same.

Well, I didn't know that. I never really paid attention to those column headers... I just scrolled through the galleries. Thank you, Maguari.

 

[Moebelle]

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Gallery

After you said that you preferred just the month and year instead of the month, date, and year. Anyways, I think my photos look much nicer now.

 

[Moebelle]

I been going through a certain members pictures and noticed that all of them are literally photos that label, "Side view into an exhibit", or "Viewing area of the exhibit", and never the actually exhibit itself.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

My method is as follows:

(Species name (Taxonomic name)) at (Collection Name) - Month Day Year

So, for instance, one recent photo I uploaded was given the title:

Amur Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura) at Galloway Wildlife Park - September 3rd 2012

By always keeping to this format, any given photograph is easy to find and categorise.

 

[Moebelle]

On another note, I constantly have to correct my zoo's own photos (taken by the zoo's head photographer) that they post on Flickr.

(Wrong-right)
Pot-bellied Pig=Red River Hog
Violet Turaco=Lady Ross's Turaco
Snow Leopard Renjy=Renji (no matter how many times I tell them)
Blue-throated Monitor-Ornate Monitor
White-throated Monitor-Ornate Monitor
Black Tree Monitor-Blue Spiny Lizard
Emerald Tree Boa-Green Tree Python
Rhinoceros Viper-Gaboon Viper
Gaboon Viper-Rhinoceros Viper
Nile Monitor-Quince Monitor
Nile Monitor-Spiny-tailed Monitor
Northern Copperhead-Southern Copperhead

 

[Maguari]

My method is as follows:

(Species name (Taxonomic name)) at (Collection Name) - Month Day Year

So, for instance, one recent photo I uploaded was given the title:

Amur Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura) at Galloway Wildlife Park - September 3rd 2012

By always keeping to this format, any given photograph is easy to find and categorise.

I started out including scientific names in the title, but with very long names it made the title a bit unwieldy, so I relegated it to the description. If the animal is the main subject of the photo I always include it though, even for well-known species.

 

[Moebelle]

How would people feel if I started doing this? And I just labelled each one, 'Cat Canyon', 'Cockatoo Island', and 'Elephant Reserve'.