This is actually the image that inspired this diary, an elegant yet ever so simple image of a beet, by user SteelerGrrl.
One of the neat things about the new Image Library tool is that so many more people are using images—and some really great ones—in diaries. We're up to 37,000 images, and every once in a while I come across some that I find especially striking. Here are some favorites, selected from a highly random sample.
Glass gem corn sold by Native Seeds—so pretty and translucent. Uploaded by Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN.
Used in
Top Comments (May 4).
More images below the fold.
Paint Creek Senate Investigating Committee, 1913, from the Library of Congress collection. Uploaded by user JayRaye.
This image was uploaded for
Hellraisers Journal: Minneapolis Janitors on Retaliation, ¡Ya Basta!
Friday June 13, 1913
West Virginia - Governor Hatfield refuses Senators access to Military Documents
In a letter to the Senate Investigating Committee, Governor Hatfield stated his refusal to allow the committee access to the records of the trials before the Military Tribunal. The Governor maintains that the findings of that court have never been approved, that the prisoners have been released, and that the records could be needed in the future should authorities decide to seek indictments in the civil courts.
City of Adana Turkey. The stone bridge was built by the Romans and is still used. The large mosque is actually fairly new. Image by Major Kong.
This image is one of several from his really excellent
diary about a deployment during the Iraq war, and includes pictures of markets in Adana and quite a few aircraft images taken from the Major's cockpit.
My daughter would say these trees touch the sky. Image from Milly Watt.
An elegant barn structure, from Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. Uploaded by user northsylvania.
Northsylvania used this image in the diary
Jamais vu to déjà vu: Books that have changed my life, writing about Hardy's
Far From the Madding Crowd:
Many years later, when I visited the great tithe barns at Bradford Abbas, Pilton, and Abbotsbury, they were immediately familiar. Though the shearing scene in the 1967 film adaptation of the novel was filmed in Abbotsbury, my sense of déjà vu came from reading Hardy’s vivid description all those years before. I eventually read all of Hardy’s novels, and while the overall theme of social change is evidently why he felt driven to write them, his love of the West Country landscape, and his carefully crafted depiction of it, make his fear of those changes all the more evident.
The diary includes woodcut illustrations from her original copy and several lovely images of the English countryside.
Pelicans, by user matching mole.
Crowds at 15th & Penna. Ave. before the Suffragette Parade, March 3, 1913, from the Library of Congress. Uploaded by user Denise Oliver Velez.
They Marched and Battled for the Ballot:
March 3, 1913, was a major milestone in the battle for women in the United States to achieve national suffrage. Over 8,000 women and male supporters marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., on the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Though attacked by viewers, and women who marched suffered injury, the parade route was completed by most of the marchers and brought national attention to the suffrage movement.
Official program—Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913, uploaded by Denise Oliver Velez.
A heron eating a snake! Uploaded by user matching mole.
matching mole brings us
Dawn Chorus: The Events of March 5, from St Joseph Peninsula State Park, on the coast of the Florida Panhandle.
An inlet in Yachats, Oregon, uploaded by user RonK.
If you want to know more about using images in your own diaries, this tutorial may help you get started:
http://helpdesk.dailykos.com/...
It includes links to this written tutorial as well as two video tutorials.
It's great to see this feature getting so much use, and even better to see how many more diaries get really meaningful illustrations. Thanks to all of you for making Daily Kos a little bit more fun with your stunning images!
Remember too that if you are a subscriber, you can use the greater image library, not just your own images. Front page editors purchase rights to images frequently, and if they're in our library, you can presume you have permission to use them in a Daily Kos diary as well. Writing about a Supreme Court justice? We have images of all of them in the library, and you can use the keyword search to find them by name. (Of course, use your judgement as to whether you really want to look at your diary with an image of Michele Bachmann.)
And if you want an image of an idea but maybe not of the specific person (maybe you think a certain politician has the IQ of a piece of celery), use the keywords and you may find exactly what you are looking for.
Beautiful sunset by user OceanDiver.
This image is one of many from
The Daily Bucket: gulls at sunset. The Daily Bucket is a regular feature from the Backyard Science group.