aaaaah, yes i was just talking to a friend yesterday about helping get some photos to post on the forum elsewhere. might take a week or so though, i'm working oddball hours at a festival at the moment.
now as to your other question.....it comes down to a matter of personal tastes and what you want to hone in on. while terpenes can smell and taste great, they are also much harsher on the lungs. some of my favorite stuff has little or no cannabis smell or flavor, but it has a very pure hash taste which is distinct and pleasing on its own. what makes this stuff so awesome is that i can do huge dabs with little consequence. as many of them as i want. if i dab some tasty shatter as hard after 3-5 huge rips (or many smaller ones) the cumulative effect crushes my lungs and i need at least half hour to recover. same goes for water and butane, the more that is left in the more the cumulative effect builds up over a session or a day or a week etc and my poor old lungs are sensitive to all these factors. that being said i like a variety of things for a variety of needs.
it is good to have all your bases covered plus i never get sick of vaping the same stuff because i have choices out the wazzoo. this morning i'm on coconut based topicals and edibles, and i'm about to about .3g of some shatter i made last year out of a batch of really nice bubble that was mostly ganesh, berry white, black garlic and blue garlic with as much jack herer as i could talk a friend out of plus some other shit i don't remember cuz it was a mendo blendo batch in the end and it was over a year ago. i feel pretty medicated, but i'm definitely doing more dabs before i leave for work in 20 minutes.
oh, and far as long term storage i'd worry less about all the mentioned factors. as long as it is reasonably purged and dried and you store it correctly a small amount of butane or water doesn't seem to matter much. butane will purge on it's own slowly and water shouldn't hurt it. in fact as a personal observation i have a few jars that i have had curing for ages that have waaay too much water in them because of an idiot i was working with and an accident i haven't felt like drying and dealing with yet. i also have one jar from the same batch that did not have additional water spilt into it.....the jars that had the fuckup seem to have held their terpenes based on smell much better than the drier stuff, and i dried a few dabs worth a week ago and it tasted great, so i almost think the moisture helped prevent terpenes from off gassing. heat is more the issue with losing terpenes.....or reprocessing with alcohol.
damn i lurk this site silently for about a year and now i feel like all my posts are tl&dr, haha
