Always keen for something different to put on the blog, I’ve taken to changing the header photo over the past year or two – thats the big one up at the top. Most are local scenes close to where I live, a couple are from places I’ve enjoyed visiting and looking at them you’d be forgiven for thinking I have a liking for water as well as green grass and gum trees. Definitely true – windy paths and benches are another favourite as well 🙂
Remember what I said the other day about the blog name ‘Still Waters’ – cool calm and collected on the surface but being different underneath? Well I’m hoping that in a way the gentle images below sort of demonstrate that visually.
These are the cropped images I’ve already used.
Glacier Bay Alaska
Queens Beach Bowen Queensland
Cape Schanck Victoria
Donnelly’s Weir Healesville Victoria
The TV masts on The Dandenongs Victoria
Local Parks and Gardens eastern suburbs Melbourne Victoria
Bet you’re wondering what is about to happen now??
Well, being New Year, a time of learning and all that, I was thinking about changing the header and discovered that the theme I use (Cheateau) has the ability to choose pictures randomly instead of using the same (chosen) one all the time. What that means is that each page has a different photo at the top – whatever the header is when someone comes to the blog should be different to the one on the contact me page or the books read page and so on.
I was like a kid with a new toy after I clicked save – looking and checking the image on each page and discovering (most of the time) a different one to the previous one. I even went down the sidebar clicking on recent posts to see what was there, laughing at myself for ‘being so clever’ LOL
Have a look and see what you think – click a few pages and see the difference. Then again it’s possible nobody else but me will actually notice:).
It works! The post below had the Alaskan photo.
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Don’t laugh Andrew but I’ve checked several time today just for the fun of it lol
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It’s fun to play around once in a while. Cool idea, Cathy.
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Fun alright Sharon- not sure I’ll leave it that way permanently tho’
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I always panic about losing everything….but I’ d like to try that.
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Have a go Helen – if your theme supports it you have nothing to lose. This was different to when I tried a new theme and did lose lots of pages and widgets. Not happy that dayI Turned out they were all still there in an inactive place so once I went back to chateau I could reinstate them.
I already had some header photos I’d used before so didn’t have to go through the process of finding others and cropping etc.
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It’s nice to discover things you hadn’t realized, and more importantly to realize that they make things look even better.
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There’s the old saying that change is as good as a rest and when you discover how easy some changes are you certainly can rest easily
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I like the idea of having the header photo rotate through a collection. For my theme, that would mean editing a collection of photos to the size requirements of the header. If I decide to do that, the photos would be of favorite places we’ve been. Cool idea.
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All I did was to load some of my photos I thought would look good as a header. There is a resizer that pops up in the header section of appearance which does the work for you. You can slide it up and down to get the view you like before saving.
A lot of our travel photos aren’t suitable because you have to choose only part of the photo – not right or left side but by cutting the photo horizontally.
Cathy
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Wow – these are some beautiful pictures! I’m in awe!
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Thanks for that – we live at the bottom of those hills so the green grassy ones are all local. The watery ones are from travelling
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very neat!
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Quite a discovery in fact – the things we can do these days!
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I also use Chateau and I will certainly try this. Awesome pics, by the way.
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Give it a try – find some pictures you like and go to appearance then header and it’s all fairly straighforward from then. Glad you like the photos – I’m always snapping away at something with my little elcheapo pocket camera
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Lovely photos! I especially liked Healesville and the way it captures your view of Still Waters…and I want to go to Glacier Bay immediately, wow!
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Easiest way to Glacier Bay is on a cruise ship – only way to travel – in fact one of our favourite and enjoyable way to travel lol
Healesville is a little place setin the Great Dividing Range about 30 minutes from our house.
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Beautiful photos. I have been to Glacier Bay so it was fun to see a photo of it again.
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Like the man who bought the razor company GnG we liked Glacier Bay so much we took another cruise just to see it again four years later 🙂
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I don’t blame you! I have not traveled as much as you have, but from the moment my Alaskan cruise ended, I have always longed to go back. I loved the puffins, the whales, the eagles, the scent of the trees wafting over the water to fill my nose with Alaska… loved it all!
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i think your pictures always look very appealing areas to visit
xx
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Thanks Lizzie – as I said the green grassy ones are just in the local parks and gardens. They don’t look so appealing in the middle of a hot dry summer when the grass is all brown and dry. Not much chance of that this week tho – so much rain they are definitely green.
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wow….lovely photos..
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Thanks Maddie
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Love the pictures.
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Germaine you also live in a beautiful province – I’m sure you appreciate all that is around you.
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Yes the difference themesarecfun to try. I like mine as it highlights my reviews so will.
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Have you ever changed to another one to see what it looks like with your content
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Yes, I tried several and ened up with this one as it highlights the books. You can go back to the one you want quckly. I am checking what others are using to see if I like it.
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I like it Cathy, new header again this morning! 😀
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Clever you, I have looked at your various pages and the headers are stunning pictures. X Dawn
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As I said to someone else you should see them in the middle of summer when the ground is all dusty more brown than green.
Take a little time on your holiday Dawn and see what you can come up with. Try to find a beach with no people or just look at the sea and have a go
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Will do x
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Beautiful pictures. So much better to look at than the bleak winter right now. 🙂
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LOL our time will come – it will be cool here befoe we know it. Todays weather (unseasonably cool) reminded us how fickle the weather can be here in Melbourne.
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How very, very clever. And distracting.
Love your headers – particularly the benches. All of them are places I could spend a happy hour (or more).
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I sometimes sit a while on the bench in the last picture – its half way up an incline in the park trail and it’s nice to watch anyone else out walking.
Just wondering why you said the changing pictures are distracting?
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Distracting because I went wandering through your blog looking at changing images rather than reading the text…
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Don’t laugh EC but even now when I’m looking at the blog proper I’m still checking and wondering which photo will come up next 🙂 I’ll give it a week or two and then maybe go back to the same photo on all the pages.
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I like the long walkway and the row of bollards best. Nice photo.
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They are set along the path that runs in front of a school Dianne – so the school grounds (which are bordered by a chain link fence next to the trees) are to the left with a road on the right. Just part of a walk I take sometimes
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