Hello members of the
Groton Rotary Club.

These are the collections of photos that have been taken during our weekly meetings and at other special events.  Any member may take pictures at any Rotary event and then email them to the Webmaster for inclusion in an existing event's link posted here on this page or a new event link.

    If you have something that you want photographed and ultimately have displayed from a link on this page then please contact the Webmaster via E-Mail.

    To transfer any single picture to your computer simply position your pointer over the picture you want a copy of and click your right mouse button.  In the context window that opens along side your pointer, select "Save Image As".  Then save the image file, with your title, to a location of your choice. 

    I recommend that you always download anything on the Web to a "Breakout Folder" aptly named and located in your C drive as "C:\bo".  Later on, if you decide to save the picture, transfer it to a more permanent location.  Keep "bo" free of anything you want permanently and then you will know that you can always delete everything in "bo" and download more at another time.  This way you will not have cryptically titled image files laying around Helter Skelter in your hard drive.   

    Another thing that you might want to consider is in what Picture Format you are going to save your picture.  The Picture File Extension of .BMP will give you a very large file and will have the most editable bits and bytes of information in it.  However, the only time you might need this much information is if you plan on cropping some small piece of your large picture at some later time.  With the BMP of the large picture your little picture that you have "cut" out of it will still have enough information so that it will look smooth and pleasing to the eye.  If, however, you want all of the picture just the way you see it on your screen then you should consider saving it as a .jpg file.  This will still look the same to you both on the screen and on a printout because the amount of information is averaged out for the size of your screen.  And even though the amount of information that you are saving is far smaller you will not be able to see a difference unless you try to "Blow Up" the picture in which case you would then see crags and rough edges etc.  The other popular format is the GIF.  This is going to give you a slightly larger file than the .jpg would have but if does a lot more for you if you are into picture manipulation at all.  As an example.... I like to make Animated Gifs like the one above that shows Vicki taking your picture and then a Smiley Face shows up.  You can only do this sort of manipulating with .gif picture files.  So to wrap it up here, the best file format for copied pictures depends on what you ultimately are going to do with them.  

    A picture saved in BMP format can always be converted to a jpg picture through the use of programs like L-View Pro, Paint Shop Pro, PolyView, etc. and probably even the ever intrusive Microsoft auto-loading stuff will convert picture formats as well.  You can convert a bmp to either a jpg or a gif and a gif to a jpg but you can't go backwards because the bits and bytes information is no longer in the file.  So, the choice is yours. Choose wisely according to your usages.  To send a picture to a friend via e-mail, the best format is jpg and if you are going to send several jpg pictures to the same person then the best thing to do is to use WinZip to crunch them down in size even more and put them all into one and under one file name so that you can make the attachment more convenient for yourself.  Most newer computers come with these Zip algorithms built right in and are easily learned by even those that have "Peter Principled" out with a Paper-Mate pen.

    Another little tidbit of information that might help you all with pictures that you get from any web site.  Often when you try to enlarge a picture that you have take (downloaded or otherwise captured) from the web you will find that it gets very craggy looking due to the way enlargement normally works.  This amazing little tool allows one to increase the size of raster images [without major degradation].  Here is the address for a program that doesn't just enlarge each pixel but actually interprets what added pixels should be.  It works fairly well and the standard version seems to be free to at least try.  Here is the address. http://www.imagener.com/ .

    Keep in mind that you still can't have over, something like, 100, or so, files in the root directory of any hard drive. So dump any large amounts of photos you might have taken on that last vacation into a folder instead, like "C:\photos taken thru xx-xx-xxxx". Click Here  to read more about this Files in Root limit.