Updated: 24 December 2017, 3:47pm

I've had feedback that the search function was not working correctly on mobile devices. Most of you use a mobile device to access the website. The bugs have been ironed out, so hopefully everything should now be fixed. The display engine has been upgraded. You should see a significant improvement.

Why you need "search"

In 2017 a total of 1,365 photographs and 2 videos were posted to the website. And that's only 2017.

It's hit and miss looking for specific photographs. If you've time and patience, you could rummage through the entire collection of images which you'll find in the Photo and Media Archive (The Club > Photo and Media Archive). The archive contains about 10,000 photographs. Maybe what you're looking for was taken in 2016, or was it 2015, maybe 2014? Maybe you're looking for all photographs taken of an individual, spanning a number of years. Hopefully you'll find what you're looking for rummaging through the system. Good luck with that!

Of course, the solution is a search tool, which you now have access to.

New Display and Search

The Searchable Photo Archive is available below. It will always be accessible from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Select The Club. On the drop down menu select Searchable Photo Archive.

Display responds to size of screen

The display is slightly different depending on the size of your screen. Click on the icon indicated marked with a blue arrow to locate the search function. On a tablet or smartphone you'll have to scroll down the page, after you click the icon, to locate the search box.

	Display on a PC
	Display on a Tablet
	Display on a smartphone (iPhone)

Powerful search function

Example 1:

Let's assume you're looking for photographs of Marcus Cleary. Type the surname (cleary) or first name (marcus) into the Search Box. Four images will pop up. One from 2017 and three from 2004. It would take you quite some time to find these photographs if you were manually searching through the system.

Clicking on one of the photographs creates a slideshow which only contains the images that match the search criteria. This is a really useful feature.

To start a new search, just clear the name from the search box, and off you go again.

Example 2:

There are many photographs of John Morgan and Denzil Tipping on the system. However, I wonder if there is an image of Denzil Tipping and John Morgan. A photograph of the two of them together. 

In the search box type: tipping and morgan.

The display will show:

One photograph pops up. It was taken on 13 Oct 2004.

Example 3:

Suppose you're looking for a photograph of Terry Kirwan. The problem here is, that if you type kirwan, you will get all the Kirwans. Typing terry and kirwan will only return results containing photos of Terry Kirwan.

Searches will take a second or two.

Missing photographs

"Missing" is probably the wrong word. There are no missing photographs. 

The Searchable Archive only contains photographs that have captions. You'll see there are big gaps. We're in the process of plugging the gaps. It's a slow, and tedious job. I'd like to thank four individuals who have been helpful with this work. Mags and Keith, and in paticular, Paraic Lavelle and Julie Savage. 

If you would like to help, please contact Paraic or Julie, or me. We'll assign a single album to you, say one containing about 20 or less photographs, and ask you to identity the individuals in each photograph. All you need is a screen to view the photographs, and a pencil and paper. Some names will be obvious but others won't. So it may take a little time and you may have to ask around. We really would appreciate your help.

Julie

Paraic

We've set ourselves a 2018 target to add captions to all photographs taken in 2016. We can't do this on our own, so we really do need your help. Please contact Paraic or Julie. Or give me a shout.

Of course the Photographic and Media Archive, which you'll find on the same menu (The Club > Photo and Media Archive), contains everything. It will remain in place.

Merry Christmas to all, and here is the new display. So take it for a drive, and enjoy.

 

Peter Bennett