User talk:Fir0002/Archive 2

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Contents 1 Support/Oppose templates 2 Image:Clouds_edited.jpg 3 My Photo Gallery 4 Subst 5 reference from Wikimedia 6 Image:Yellow rose.jpg 7 Image:Yellow roses.jpg 8 Reference desk pics 9 Image:Fern.jpg 10 Reference Desk Photo Gallery Incident 11 Pics for identification 12 COM:FPC 13 Pic positions 14 Bridge image 15 Promoted Photos 16 Grasshopper 17 Chestnuts 18 Image:Pomegranate03 edit.jpg 19 hallo from uwe 20 Classical Specatular 21 Image:Lightning02.jpg 22 Wikimania competition 23 Hey There 24 FPC 25 Any FPC quality here? 26 RFA 27 obsolete GIF 28 Image:Large bonfire.jpg 29 Pic of the day 30 "Year 10" 31 RE: Year 10 32 Cat photo 33 Hats off to you 34 Honeybee name change? 35 Forged iron 36 Aesthetics 37 Pine pics 38 Moon picture 39 Pic of the day 40 Night Sky 41 Pic of the Day ~12 or so 42 Bee flying - promoted

[edit] Support/Oppose templates

I'm not sure what you mean by "what does it do". I'm just hoping others will see our style and use our templates (or make their own copies/versions). --brian0918™ 13:33, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• It'll be a replacement, since the originals will probably be deleted. Others will see yours and either use it or make their own. --brian0918™ 23:57, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • You did it right. You wouldn't be able to make a shorter template name-- it has to be under your user space. --brian0918™ 00:09, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • You ask an admin (like myself) to lock it, but they won't lock a page for a reason like that, I'm pretty sure. --brian0918™ 00:29, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
      • I don't think so. --brian0918™ 00:39, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Apologies for butting in, but if you are going to continue to use private versions of the templates please use {{subst:[whatever the template is called]}} - this will add the contents of the template to the page, rather than adding a link back to the template forever, and should solve at two of the more substantial concerns: that the template could be edited after it is added (for example, to turn a support into an oppose or vice versa, and that the template could cause an increase in server load.

As you may have noticed, there is a level of antipathy to these templates, so don't be surprised if people continue to express less than their full support for their continued use. -- ALoan (Talk) 02:29, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Clouds_edited.jpg

Any chance that you took this picture yourself? If so, go update the source info. :) --Gmaxwell 04:23, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that! I've enjoyed all your photographs. Gmaxwell 16:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My Photo Gallery

Hi Solipsist, I was wondering how I could make my gallery in the same style as the FPC page - the current style takes too long to save edits to. --Fir0002 01:19, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Fir,

I'm not sure I follow you about making the style similar to the FPC page. However, as far as I can tell, the main problem with growing image galleries, is that each image takes a little while for be resized and downloaded. So your principle options are to divide the gallery into multiple pages (many people split based on subject), or to reduce the image sizes (which still takes time for each resize, but reduces the total transfer size).

You already have your gallery divided into subheadings, so you will probably find it helps on page saves, if you only edit the sections instead of the whole page (that certainly helps on Featured Pictures Visible).

You also have a choice over image layout;

1. ) Using a table, as you currently are
2. ) Using them aligned left on the page with <br clear="both"/>
3. ) Using the Gallery tag, but that way you don't have control over the sizing.

One of the minor disadvantages of the table layout in your user space, is that unless you are careful with various background colouring tags, you tend to get a web of white lines intersecting the blue background (not many people notice).

The main issue with using the row break format is that you can't control the layout as cleanly. In particular, wide rows can wrap individually if the browser page is narrow. This can be seen as a good thing, because no one misses an image because its half scrolled off the right hand edge, or a bad thing because the layout can become ragged.

The main advantage of the <gallery> tag is that it is easy to use and add new images. The main disadvantage is that whilst the thumbnails are useful for locating an image you've already seen, they are too small for a new user to browse and really see the photos.

Personally I use row breaking for my priciple gallery (the ones I like), and a <gallery> tag layout for my list of also rans.

The only thing that is different on the main FPC page, is that it uses template style transclusion for each nomination. This has significant advantages when avoiding edit conflicts and for ease of shifting nominations from the main page to the archives, but I don't think it helps much with speed of loading. You could probably do this by setting up several gallery subpages in your user space at User:Fir0002/Gallery1, User:Fir0002/Gallery2 etc then concatenate the subpages on one main gallery page with {{User:Fir0002/Gallery1}} {{User:Fir0002/Gallery2}}. But as I say, I doubt it would help much and is more likely to just be confusing in the long run. -- Solipsist 06:43, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subst

Subst doesn't work for user namespace templates. That was the first thing I tried. --brian0918™ 17:03, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Are you sure? It seems to work for the example on my talk page, or am I missing something? -- ALoan (Talk) 23:58, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] reference from Wikimedia

A quick Qstn, how do I reference or upload the image from Wikimedia. thank you, Shivu June 28, 2005 13:19 (UTC)

I got the answer for my above qstn, thank u.

[edit] Image:Yellow rose.jpg

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[edit] Image:Yellow roses.jpg

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[edit] Reference desk pics

Hi, can you make sure all the pics that have been fairly positively identified get renamed and put on an appropriate page and licensed properly? I thought I read that commons is a better place to put images so all languages can use them, but I don't see anything to that effect in the image use policy page. Anyway thanks for the pics, I've had fun even if I don't know what they are. - Taxman ^Talk June 29, 2005 21:09 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Fern.jpg

Hi Fir - any idea what species of fern this is? I think it may be a Blechnum species, but I'm not too hot on Oz ferns. It would be useful to have the identity for the taxobox at 'plant'. Thanks, MPF 30 June 2005 10:15 (UTC)

Hi Peter - thanks :-) I did a bit of rooting around on a google search Blechnum+Gippsland and it seems that Blechnum nudum is very close and my best guess, but I put a request on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life to see in case anyone else knows better before I add the ident to the pic - MPF 30 June 2005 11:54 (UTC)

Hi Fir. You take beautiful pictures! Two litte problems: Image:Galah eating peppercorns.jpg is a female Gang-gang Cockatoo, and Image:Australian toad.jpg can't be a toad as there are no toads in Australia, only frogs. It's probably a Pobblebonk (Limnodynastes dumerili). Keep on taking great pictures! Tannin 30 June 2005 12:47 (UTC)

Hi again. Normally, to delete a picture you need to list it on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. But in this case, because you have replaced them with identical ones under new titles, the rules allow any sysop to delete them on his own responsibility. I've done that with one, the other might have to wait till after the footy! Go Pies! Tannin 1 July 2005 11:03 (UTC)

I wonder if soccer is as strong in Europe as footy is in Aust, - I doubt it! --Fir0002 July 2, 2005 10:10 (UTC)

[edit] Reference Desk Photo Gallery Incident

I think you have realized that neither I, nor anyone else, deleted your gallery from the reference desk. This diff shows that you added the gallery again, resulting in two copies. This diff shows that you then removed the duplicate. I would never have deleted something of yours without discussing it first. I would like to apologize for my comment. The sentiment was genuine and I meant no harm by it. However, it was poorly thought out. I did believe you were making a practical joke, and that was going farther than you intended. I should have realized that was incorrect, though. I didn't mean to sound arrogant. I definitely do not think I am even close to perfect and I know very little by heart. You are correct that I should have considered the subtleties of your question better before posting. You are also right in thinking that I could not recognize an albatross. I only said your picture was one because I compared it to Wikipedia's existing article. I definitely don't know the species. My mistake was assuming that you would. That was based on my belief(possibly invalid) that albatrosses are relatively common in the Australian wilds. I therefore thought an experienced (and talented) nature photographer like yourself would have recognized it beyond doubt. I now realize that you did recognize the bird, but were considering it on a level of detail above what I anticipated. I apologize for being rash and hope you can accept my apology. You are correct that I should leave photo identification to the experts. Superm401 | Talk July 1, 2005 07:41 (UTC)

[edit] Pics for identification

Hi Peter - thanks to Superm's post above, I've just discovered the existence of the 'Reference Desk' - I didn't know about it before. I've added some ident notes for both your sets of pics. Judging by the lack of detailed responses you'd had there, I suspect I'm far from the only wikipedian with i.d. experience not to know of that page. Can I suggest that for plant and animal idents, you'd probably get better answers posting the pics on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life page, as most of us plant and animal nerds check that page much more regularly. - MPF 1 July 2005 10:14 (UTC)

Hi Peter - yep, definitely Pacific Gull, it is the largest Oz gull, 60-65cm body length, 140-155cm wingspan, 1kg weight, compared to Silver Gull's 40cm body length, 90cm winglength and 0.3kg weight (Silver Gull is the commonest gull in Oz). The huge bill on your photo is also a clincher for Pacific Gull, it has a heavier bill than any other gull in the world - Michael MPF 4 July 2005 08:38 (UTC)

[edit] COM:FPC

Before I vote, could you tell me what the two objects are in the bottom righthand corner of Image:Misty_morning03.jpg? Many thanks! LoopZilla 2005-07-04 14:35:06 (UTC)

[edit] Pic positions

Hi Peter - great that you're adding so many good pics, one request, could you check out when positioning them, to avoid right-aligned pics shortly below the taxobox, as with some browsers they force the text down to the same level, leaving a huge gap in the text (see printscreen). The best option is, if placing a pic within the height of the taxobox, is to left-align it (as I've changed London Plane after the above printscreen) . . . though this can give problems too, as bulleted lists and left-aligned pics don't mix either! Sometimes it can be really difficult to fit pics in, if the worst comes to the worst, they can always go in as a <gallery>...</gallery> at the bottom - thanks, Michael MPF 5 July 2005 21:32 (UTC)

Hi Peter - thanks; I'm using the dreaded internet explorer (hides his head in shame :-). I have tried mozilla, but there were a few things I didn't like about it (e.g. having to type out a new edit summary for every edit, whereas IE remembers what you've put so you only have to enter the first letter, and just click on the one you want out of a drop-down list [like 'c' gives 'copyedit', 'm' gives 'more details', etc]; the scroll button on my mouse also works better in IE than it does in mozilla) Michael - MPF 6 July 2005 08:57 (UTC)

[edit] Bridge image

The bridge you added to the bridge article is just too ugly to bear as a generic image (nice pix, ugly bridge) - can you find something graceful and soaring for this spot - or perhaps artistic? ;-) Leonard G. 03:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Well, another editor moved it to the top of the page, as the introductory image, so I moved it to the suspension bridge article (title: "Not all suspension bridges are beautiful") and put a real knockout in its place. Best wishes, Leonard G. 01:53, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Promoted Photos

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Wine grapes03.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

How come you upload some photos to wikipedia while some, like these grapes, are on the wikimedia commons? Also, I share some of my photos on Flickr with Creative Commons (I haven't uploaded anything to Wikipedia or Commons since I'm don't do any professional photography). I guess GFDL is more widely accepted? What about other Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags? In response to editing your user page, you're welcome! --J. J. 15:31, 2005 July 18 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Sunset with funnel clouds.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

[edit] Grasshopper

I can't answer you as to why the image galleries were removed - that was done by the IP user who made an edit before I made my edits - see the history.

Stellertony the Bookcrosser 8 July 2005 07:26 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Pincushion hakea03.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

[edit] Chestnuts

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Chestnuts.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

--Spangineer (háblame) July 9, 2005 14:04 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pomegranate03 edit.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Pomegranate03 edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

-- Enochlau 14:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hallo from uwe

hallo Peter - thank you for your help, my English is rotten - hallo to Australia! you have fine photos and articles - good luck to you (PS my antarctic krill article with 10 pohotos is today on the main page of the Danish side, where my grandmother is from! http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forside) - isn't it amazing how we can cooperate worldwide today Uwe Kils 12:55, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

maybe you can take a look here, maybe edit some and vote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Krill#.5B.5BKrill.5D.5D

thank you - for a 10 yr you do great work - lets work across all boundaries and agges - If I would not have been retired I would invite you for a work visit on imaging in our university Uwe Kils 00:24, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Classical Specatular

In England, most concerts explicit forbid the use of photography (and of course sound recording). Is this also true in Australia, in particular at the "Classical Specatular" at the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne?

I refer to [1] for example. LoopZilla 11:06:19, 2005-07-17 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:MotoX racing03 edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

[edit] Image:Lightning02.jpg

Hi, I really like this pic. I was wondering how you managed to capture it—what shutter speed, did you have some kind of rapid-fire camera, etc. Thanks! Postdlf 17:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania competition

I thought you might like to know that since a couple of you images were some of the most popular WP:FPC nominations this year, I've entered them into the Wikimania Media Competition -- Solipsist 19:54, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

There must be some more I could nominate too, but for example Image:Aust blue dragonfly02.jpg which was popular, seems to lack an exact species identification which appears to be something they want in the nature section. -- Solipsist 20:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hey There

Hey Fir! first off, congrats on all the excellent pics - I see you are getting some well deserved praise for all your hard work. They are all gold as you all say down here! (I've not long moved to Perth from Ireland/Scotland). You are adding to the quality of wiki daily! After reading your pages and looking at your galleries I have no doubt you could make it as a commercial photographer. I have an uncle and cousin who are both press photographers I'm sure they would agree. Personally I love messing about with digital photography - I knew a darkroom was too much work so I've been wating years for the digital era - gotta love it! Just wondering if you know if the featured pics have to be genuinely one picture. For example I was thinking of nominating the Loy Krathong one here: [my gallery] but it's 2 shots (my own) I combined with Photoshop. Mostly I've uploaded to match an article so the're not necessarily great shots but I think I've a few decent older pics that I might upload too, but I guess what I think is good is different from others e.g. I liked the drag racing one (top fueller) and had someone tell me recently it could be 'anything anywhere'. If you have the time, I'd appreciate it if you let me know what you think of any of them, all feedback is good feedback... Cheers mate! SeanMack 07:20, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hey again Peter. Apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I was pretty crook with a bug going round then forgot all about replying... Cheers for having a look at the gallery. After you did I looked some of my older pics and uploaded a quite a few for the Edinburgh Zoo page which I wrote (with help). I still feel a need to match up with an article, but I put more here than normal as a selection of stock photos like you mentioned. I've decided not to upload a lot more though until I can move all my uploads to commons but currently I'm trying to find out if there is some automated way of doing this. It would take quite a while for me to upload everything again... I can see what you mean about the noise in the Loy Krathong pic but what the pic doens't show is that the sky was absolutely thick with smoke from the fireworks. With the difficult lighting conditions and the smoke it does just look like noise. I've never seen so many fireworks in my life - and that includes Edinburgh on Hogmany! I don't think I'll bother any more with the FP thing though. If someone comes across one and puts it forward I'll be happy enough. All the best. SeanMack 05:07, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FPC

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Australian cart.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

-- Solipsist 21:10, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

and

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Misty morning02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

-- Solipsist 21:35, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Any FPC quality here?

I recently took some photographs around New Mexico and wanted to know if you thought any could be FP (based both on appearance and significane to article). -- BRIAN0918  05:55, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

My uncle's camera, he just got it this summer. I don't have anywhere near that kind of money to spend (I'd have to settle with a cheap disposable camera purchased at a discount from a garage sale :) ) -- BRIAN0918  12:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RFA

Hi there, Solipsist is up for admin on Commons, I thought you might like to give your support. Are you an admin on Commons yet? Let me know if you go for admin anywhere so I can support you. :) Have a nice day. --Silversmith Hewwo 09:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] obsolete GIF

reducing a jpeg to 256 colors- where is the difference to gif? gif is actually in use for mainstream banners/advertising. reducing a color palette for effect purpose is *not* obsolete.

irfan view: saved (from png) to gif (to set transparent color) and additional png with <256 colors. result: win xp does not display (these) non-standard png correctly. User:Akidd_dublin

[edit] Image:Large bonfire.jpg

Just ran across that image while closing a few FPC's, just wanted to compiment you on such a great photo, I hope you will continue uploading such great pictures to wikipedia. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 06:44, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

Hi Fir,

I've got a dilema for selecting the Pic of the Day on Sunday. In general Pic of the day is selected in the order in which the FP was promoted, inter-spliced with older FPs. Now that Pic of the day is appearing on the front page, I'm using two recent FPs at the weekends. From the promotion sequence, that would place your Terragen picture up on Sunday. However the next picture in the sequence is Image:Chamomile@original size.jpg, and given that you are so well known for your photographs, and particularly a nicely isolated macro shot like this, I'm tempted to use it on Sunday instead.

The extra complication is that the Saturday picture will be one of User:Raul654's plant shots, probably Image:Split Aloe.jpg. So in a way, the Terragen picture would provide better variety. In any case, to stop rambling on, I'm really just asking which picture do you like best, the Terragen scene or the Chamomile? -- Solipsist 08:22, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I prefer the chamomile photo - a lot better colors etc. I like the terragen one as well as it is soemthing different for me, but I think the chamomile is better.

Thanks for asking! --Fir0002 08:59, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

OK done, the caption is at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 14, 2005. -- Solipsist 20:43, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

... and the caption for the Terragen scene is at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 16, 2005 for tomorrow's POTD. -- Solipsist 07:38, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Year 10"

I've noticed that on your user page you say "I’m currently doing Year 10". Year 10 links to Tenth garde. Sure you don't mean Tenth grade? I would correct it myself, but I'm not comfortable with editing other people's user pages, and who knows, maybe you do mean Tenth garde. -- Daverocks 06:09, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Year 10

I was referring to the misspelling of Tenth grade as "Tenth garde". (I am aware it is called Year 10 in Australia, I live here :P) Year 10 on your user page links to Tenth garde, not Tenth grade. Just letting you know as a spelling error. -- Daverocks 04:46, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

No problem. :) -- Daverocks 11:54, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cat photo

Fine, if the cat isn't your cat then it's not a pet owner vanity decision, but the photographer's vanity decision in placing it there. You claim that "the resolution and quality of the photo (not to mention that it was taken by a wikipedian not an outsider) is far superior" -- this is obviously vanity, because the clarity is not superior, and why on earth should we feature Wikipedian photos in preference to outsider photos? I'd rather we go with professional photographers' work when we can.

The image at the top of Cat was specifically chosen because previous talk page discussion wanted an image showing a cat's side, showing most of the body. Your new photo was just a silly grip and grin equivalent, useless for demonstrating the topic at hand. Please take a step back from your ego and deal with the fact that working with other editors means that you don;t always get your way. Your response was very uncivil and did not at all do anything to show that you didn't make the change for vanity, and, in fact, your claims provide further proof of your vanity. DreamGuy 09:22, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

replied to the that on his talk page]

[edit] Hats off to you

for GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY! --Kim Nevelsteen 09:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

The simple answer to your question would be because when I clicked over to your gallery my chin dropped to the floor. All the photographs are extraordinary works. --Kim Nevelsteen 09:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Honeybee name change?

Apis mellifica???? Pollinator 01:38, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

A typo at the commons page, I'm afraid. I've corrected it now (mellifera is correct) - MPF 13:04, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Forged iron

Hi Fir,

This might not be on your watchlist, since I think I put the picture on the page, but you might like this spontaneous comment. -- Solipsist 09:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for drawing my attention to that! I don't actually use watchlists. What do they do? As you can guess beyond my immediate sphere of uploading photos and finding articles for them I haven't really explored the iintricacies of Wikipedia. --Fir0002 12:11, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

No worries. As with most things Wikipedia, watchlists are easy to use. When you edit a page, you might have noticed a check-box saying 'Watch this page' at the bottom near the 'Save page' button. I think by default it is always checked, but you can set that on your preferences page. In anycase, for each page you edit with that checkbox ticked, that page gets added to your watchlist. Then if you come back to Wikipedia at a later date, you can follow the 'my watchlist' link at the very top of the page, and it will show you the last edit made to any page or talk page that you have previously editted. That way you can keep track of whether any of your edits have been reverted, or whether people have made comments about your edits.

You probably have a significant number of pages already on your watchlist, so the 'my watchlist' link will most likely show a fair amount of activity on pages that you have worked on. There are other ways to add and remove pages from your watchlist, but you can work that out as you go along. Many editors find their watchlist a convenient way of keeping track of what has happened to areas of Wikipedia that they are interested in. Personally, I couldn't use Wikipedia without them. -- Solipsist 14:34, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aesthetics

It was only natural you should win the aesthetics prize ;-) though I had no personal hand in that. Of course you get something for that; a choice of DVDs from Directmedia -- Bdka has the complete list of titles. +sj + 15:47, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pine pics

Hi Peter - just to let you know, they are all Monterey Pine (a.k.a. Radiata Pine in OZ), an introduced species from California. Enjoy your camping trip! - MPF 17:32, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moon picture

First, thanks for that great picture! I just wanted to alert you that the "red blue haze" is called the Belt of Venus and is an inverted sunset. See APOD. You might want to update your picture annotations. Cheers!! Awolf002 21:27, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Wine grapes03.jpg is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. You can check and improve the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 1, 2005, although I guess if you are still at camp, your editing may be limited. Also well done on identifying the grape variety - I seem to recall this wasn't known at the time of the FPC voting. -- Solipsist 10:18, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Came here from the POTD template inclusion on my user page to say thanks for the pics only to find myself lost in the crowd :-) Well done and I look forward to seeing the bee there soon too! ~ Veledan • Talk ^{+ new} 21:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Night Sky

To my knowledge there we have only two images (Image:0000326.jpg and Image:Sternenhimmelhal.jpg) of night skies. If you knew some others or even make some please let me know. --Saperaud 22:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the Day ~12 or so

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Sunset with funnel clouds.jpg is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. As usual, you can check the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 6, 2005. I've struggled a bit on this one, since I couldn't find much to say, beyond the fact that it is a sunset. By comparison with one of your other sunsets, I would guess this is also near Swifts Creek.

However, I'm not sure that the description of 'funnel clouds' is acurate. A funnel cloud is more commonly used to describe the centre of a tornado. They look a little more like what I know of as the finger of god effect, but I don't think that is a correct meterological term either. Its not uncommon to see a spread of light rays from the sun peaking through storm clouds, and it is a mildly advanced physics question to explain why such rays appear to spread radially when the wavefront of light reaching the Earth from the Sun should be virtually uniform and parallel.

On the other hand you mention on the FPC page that you have an earlier picture that show these as destinct clouds, and even in this picture it looks like there is too much structure in the rays to be just transmission scattering in a hazy atmosphere, plus it is a little surprising that they are not more red since you might expect that they too would be being illuminated by light with the blue end removed by Rayleigh scattering.

In the end I decided it was best not to comment on something that didn't have an accurate description and just concentrate on the sunset.

Your Image:Pincushion hakea03.jpg will be up next, and I think I am similarly going to struggle with a caption for that one. It is a shame that we don't have an article on the Pincushion hakea itself. If I get time, I might try and piece one together.

By the way, I tried sending you an email as previously suggested, but it may have got lost whilst you were on camp. As an alternative, you should be able to visit my user page and click the Email this User link to send an email containing your address to my prefered Wikipedia account. Its not an account I monitor most closely, but I usually see email there. -- Solipsist 21:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

OK the Pincushion Hakea is up for POTD tomorrow with the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 8, 2005. That was a hard one to write, we need to find a way to help stimulate people to write articles for some of your photos. Fortunately, I found we had an article on the genus Hakea, although it also needed a little work and some of the linked plant anatomy articles are surprisingly poor. Every little helps — that's the way of the Wiki. -- Solipsist 21:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bee flying - promoted

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Bee mid air.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

~ Veledan • Talk ^{+ new} 19:57, 7 September 2005 (UTC)