Story Maps Flip Photos from Portrait to Landscape

[JoeBorgione]

This is probably the silliest thing I've ever come across.  I have dozens of portrait images I'd like to add to a story map and at no extra charge, the story map flips the orientation.

There are several different articles going back to 2017 of people saying 'rotate it 90 degrees and then back again before uploading' or 'strip out the exif metadata'.  Huh? It's 2020; I spent a boatload of money to get high res, georeferenced photos on an iPhone 11 Pro Max, and I have to mess around them to get them into a story map?

Please say it isn't so...

[SarahBlake]

I also am experiencing this same problem - My StoryMap (from March 2021), which has portrait and landscape photos, was fine until recently - now 3 of my landscape-oriented pictures are rotated 90 degrees to the right...

[SarahBlake]

Aah - I realize now that my 3 photos with orientation problems were originally portrait, so thanks DBlake for the workaround - just did that edit/crop/rotate and replaced that version of the photos in StoryMap - seemed to work (for now!).