moved funcs around so routes are at the bottom of photos.py, created a static route will have to use symlinks to get it to work, but trying this first on windows to see

photos.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from wtforms import SubmitField, StringField, HiddenField, validators, Form
 from flask_wtf import FlaskForm
-from flask import request, render_template, redirect
+from flask import request, render_template, redirect, send_from_directory
 from main import db, app, ma
 from sqlalchemy import Sequence
 from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
@@ -29,6 +29,38 @@ def md5(fname):
             hash_md5.update(chunk)
     return hash_md5.hexdigest()
 
+def isImage(file):
+    try:
+        img = Image.open(file)
+        return True
+    except:
+        return False
+
+def isVideo(file):
+    try:
+        fileInfo = MediaInfo.parse(file)
+        for track in fileInfo.tracks:
+            if track.track_type == "Video":
+                return True
+        return False
+    except Exception as e:
+        return False
+
+def getExif(file):
+    f = open(file, 'rb')
+    try:
+        tags = exifread.process_file(f)
+    except:
+        print('NO EXIF TAGS?!?!?!?')
+        f.close()
+        raise
+    f.close()
+
+    fthumbnail = base64.b64encode(tags['JPEGThumbnail'])
+    fthumbnail = str(fthumbnail)[2:-1]
+
+    return fthumbnail
+
 ################################################################################
 # Class describing Photos in the database, and via sqlalchemy, connected to the DB as well
 ################################################################################
@@ -76,50 +108,18 @@ def photos():
                 else:
                     ftype = 'File'
 
-
                 if ftype != "Directory":
                     fhash=md5(file)
                 else:
                     fhash=None
 
-                
-
                 fsize = round(os.stat(file).st_size/(1024*1024))
-                view_list.append( Photos( name=file, type=ftype, size_MB=fsize, hash=fhash, thumbnail=fthumbnail ))
+                fname=file.replace(p, "")
-
+                view_list.append( Photos( name=fname, type=ftype, size_MB=fsize, hash=fhash, thumbnail=fthumbnail ))
-
 
     return render_template("photos.html", page_title='View Photos', view_path=view_path, file_list=view_list, alert=st.GetAlert(), message=st.GetMessage() )
 
+@app.route("/static/<filename>")
+def custom_static(filename):
+    return send_from_directory("static/", filename)
 
-def isImage(file):
-    try:
-        img = Image.open(file)
-        return True
-    except:
-        return False
-
-def isVideo(file):
-    try:
-        fileInfo = MediaInfo.parse(file)
-        for track in fileInfo.tracks:
-            if track.track_type == "Video":
-                return True
-        return False
-    except Exception as e:
-        return False
-
-def getExif(file):
-    f = open(file, 'rb')
-    try:
-        tags = exifread.process_file(f)
-    except:
-        print('NO EXIF TAGS?!?!?!?')
-        f.close()
-        raise
-    f.close()
-
-    fthumbnail = base64.b64encode(tags['JPEGThumbnail'])
-    fthumbnail = str(fthumbnail)[2:-2]
-
-    return fthumbnail

static/images_to_process

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../images_to_process/

templates/photos.html

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 						{% endif %}
 						 {{obj.name}}
 						{% if obj.type=="Image" %}
+							<!--
+							<img width="64" height="64" src="{{obj.name}}"></img> 
+							-->
 							<img width="64" height="64" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,{{obj.thumbnail}}"></img>
 						{% endif %}
 						</td></td><td>{{obj.size_MB}}</td><td>{{obj.hash}}</tr>