So I went through all the photo sharing options before I finally settled on embedding Google Slides into this post. Corey and I plan to include slideshows on our website of the images we find in UMW yearbooks that we think exemplify what people wore on our campus in the ’80s. I began experimenting with Flickr. I thought you could create an embeddable slideshow gallery on Flickr, but every time I embedded my gallery it would just show the first picture as if I uploaded the picture into this post straight from my computer so unless I was doing something wrong, that was pointless. I then decided to see what options WordPress has for gallery uploads. If you click “Add Media” at the top of the text box and upload your images, you will see that you can create a gallery. I tried that. It just uploaded all of the images individually. That still wasn’t what I wanted. I’m sure there are some plugins that create galleries, but I think those are static to the page rather than the post, which might work for our final website, but that doesn’t really work for this blog. Finally, I decided to make a Google Slides presentation of the photos. It was easier than I thought and though I did not add any text or anything to fill up the blank space around the edges of the photos, I’m glad we have that option open to us for the final slideshow we will create. I’m sure we will use text in order to draw attention to certain parts of the photo like the jewelry, hair, etc.

Anyway, enjoy these photos from the late ’80s. These aren’t all of them, they are just some of my favorites from 1985 and 1986. I didn’t want to share all of them yet because I want to leave some things a surprise on our final website.