User talk:Fir0002/Archive 1

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Fir!
What sexy photographs you take... Do not pass go, add yourself to Press Corps immediately. :-)

I am including one of your photographs (the only one to show up twice, though you'll never find the second appearance) in the current edition of the Wikimedia Quarto (see the Endnotes). How would you like to be credited? Right now you're credited as Fir0002.

Cheers, +sj +  08:18, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Emperor Gum Moth
Hey there Fir, better late than never I'd say, good work on finding the correct name and title of that moth. Unforunately it is not possible to move image pages, they have to be uploaded again, and all links need to be updated. I have downloaded and uploaded the renamed image, updated the description page as well. The next step was tracking all pages linking to the original image, if you look at the bottom of the original image page, you see the "what links here" section. I have used that as a starting point to update the links, which were all over the place. The only think left for you to do would be updating the entry in the POTD archive, it could use an appropriate text about this moth. Maybe you can even write a stub article on the Emperor Gum Moth? Keep up the great work, -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 11:49, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Your question
Hey there, when you edit an article, the box below the large editing box can be used to enter a description of your edit. This is useful for people looking through the history of an article, as it makes it easy to see with a glance what has happened to the document over the last 20 edits or so. I don't know of any particular tricks I guess, but there's alot of Wikipedia to explore and to find out, and then there is meta.wikipedia.org as well. You'll find out how it all works in time, just by using stuff and looking things up in the Help. Cheers, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 10:31, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Nice pics, but . ..
Can you get some more info for some of them? - I'm thinking particularly of your yellow rose (what cultivar?) and cactus flowers (what species?). With more information, they would be very useful indeed, as are e.g. your boxthorn pics which I have used to start a new article on the genus. Thanks, MPF 11:40, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi, you've nice pictures of some gum trees, it would be helpful if you could include some more info such as the location of the pictures (nearest towns, roads, hills etc., area) and type of gum trees. The info would be useful so that articles may be linked. Cheers!

Problem?
Hey there, first of all, you can't really break something by deleting it on Wikipedia, so don't worry. On what page did it go wrong? If you want to try to fix it, press "history" on the top of the page, click on the date of the version of the page you think is correct, then press edit and save. This is called reverting, for a full guide see here: How to revert a page to an earlier version. Good luck, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 11:09, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC) PS. I'm not ad admin, luckily most editorial functions can be done by anyone, you too!

Insect eggs
Hi Fir,

Knowing that you are handy with the macro shot and seem to be able to find a range of small beasties in Australia, do you think you could find a cluster of insect eggs (under a leaf or wherever) to add to egg (biology) - it would help address the avian bias. -- Solipsist 16:55, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Hi Solipsist, thanks for your comment, but I don't know whether I'll be able to help you out on that one. I know I must be getting a bit of a macro reputation, but truth be told, its mainly luck. I wouldn't be able to gaurentee finding any insect eggs in the next 6 months but on the other hand I might see one be accident and be able to take a photo of it. Most of my macro shots are like that For instance [[Media:Cricket.jpg|Cricket]] was taken on my water tank. Just happened to be their one day.
 * I do have a pretty average shot of ant eggs, but I don't think that's what you're after is it? Also my camera cant take photos of any object smaller than a 5c coin (Australian) very well. But I'll try my best. --Fir0002 01:17, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * No worries - there's no hurry. I don't know much about insect eggs, but I have seen them laid in clusters about the size of a small coin on the underside of leaves (sometimes the leaf is also folded and stuck together to protect the eggs). The ant eggs might be fine. I was really just thinking that example eggs from different animal families should be shown. Come to think of it, you might want to keep an eye out for an ostrich egg too - they are probably more common in Australia than the UK. Nice cricket by the way. :) -- Solipsist 12:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Game of Life
Image:Game of life board.jpg, did you take this picture yourself? kudos to you if you did, I only ask because it looks like an official photo one would find on the box. Boffy b 14:28, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)

Emperor Gum Moth
Hi Fir, thanks for your latest nomination on WP:FPC - nice shot. But I think it would be better if you choose just one picture to nominate. It rather distorts the voting process to nominate multiple pictures, and significantly complicates the final tally. -- Solipsist 08:17, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments Solipsist. I can see your point of view, its just that in the previous times I have submitted multiple but similar images for featuring, I have found that more often than not, the photo I would have chosen to feature aren't what other people think should be featured. The latest example being the Australian Garden Orb Weaver Spider. I personally would have chosen the first image to feature, but people were in favor of the the third option. If you think it is too much of a problem having multiple images, I'll rectify the problem. --Fir0002 01:54, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting point. I guess the solution would be to set up a temporary gallery on a personal subpage (eg. User:Fir0002/FPCandidates) and ask a couple of trusted colleague to suggest which one should be nominated. -- Solipsist 00:02, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Australian Garden Orb Weaver
.... and by a twist of fate, your FP for Australian Garden Orb Weaver is up tommorrow. You might want to check the associated text at Picture_of_the_day/January_12%2C_2005.... and of course we've also been reusing sunset today. :) -- Solipsist 00:04, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fire good
Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo of bonfire is up for reuse on 21st Jan. I've reuse the caption from before, but you may want to check the entry at Picture of the day/January 21, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:58, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day
Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your Image:Caterpillar feeding3.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 29th Jan. As usual, you may want to check the caption at Picture of the day/January 29, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wakizashi
Hi. I edited the image for Featured picture candidates/Edo period Wakizashi.jpg, blurring the background slightly to remove artifacts and sharpening the sword (i.e. the image thereof). Could you have a look to see if this would change your vote? If not, no problem, and happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 11:51, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Hebe of the Day
Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Hebe x franciscana.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on te 4th of March. You can check the caption at Picture of the day/March 4, 2005. -- Solipsist 09:20, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Dry Tortugas
I've attempted to sharpen it some. Click on the image history to see the two different versions. It's certainly about as sharp as other featured pictures, such as: Image:Kiritimati-EO.JPG, Image:Lugano prokudin.jpg, or Image:Himalayas.jpg  Let me know if anything else should be done. -- BRIAN 0918  07:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image source
Discussion moved to Image talk:Ant cultivating aphids.jpg.

Pic of the Day ..... again :)
Hi Fir,

You've another Pic of the Day coming up on the on the 12th March. Its a repeat of an earlier picture and the caption is at Picture of the day/March 12, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:02, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

and again... and again..
This time it reusing Image:Hazelnuts.jpg on Picture of the day/March 18, 2005 and Image:Close up yellow rose.jpg on Picture of the day/March 22, 2005.

However, after that I'll be jumping back to the start of the FP list for reuse image. Fortunately it looks like we've got some good new FP candidates coming through. -- Solipsist 08:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

and again
Of course, with enough new Featured Pictures we won't have to reuse the old ones. So its handy that you've got Image:Apricots.jpg coming up the day after on the 23rd. I was struggling a little to fill out the caption at Picture of the day/March 23, 2005 (I would have thought there was more to the apricot article), but its not too bad. -- Solipsist 18:45, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

User page links
Hi Fir0002. Please use User:Fir0002 instead of Fir0002 for linking to your user page. It's generally considered a bad idea to have a redirect from "article space" to any other namespace. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 01:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image:Flower.jpg listed for deletion
An image that you uploaded, Image:Flower.jpg, has been listed at Images and media for deletion because it lacks source and license information, and it is not used in any articles. Please go there to voice your opinion (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

about flower:jpg
You may forgot to mention the source of the picture. If the pic was taken by yourself please note it. --Fanghong 01:09, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * You may misunderstand. I know the pic is very nice and with GFDL licence but would you nice enough to tell me where the pic from? you took it youself or from other GUN source? Please add the information on the describe area of the pic.--Fanghong 00:52, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

top posting
notice how my additions to your talk page come at the bottom? :-) +sj +

Brag list?
I just saw Image:Crimson sunset02.jpg in Recent Changes. Wow! Then I checked your user namespace for subpages and found User:Fir0002/FPCandidates. WOW! Then I went looking for a brag list, somewhere you might have a list of all the pictures you've uploaded. I couldn't find one. Do you have a brag list or do I have to keep checking FPC and this talk page? :-) SWAdair | Talk  10:44, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Grass pic
Hi Fir - nice pic Image:Canary grass.jpg, I've identified it as Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus pratensis, a European grass naturalised worldwide in meadows. I've moved it to the taxobox position at Poaceae as I think it is good to have a natural species there (it was a field of wheat there before) - MPF 12:29, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tarantula species
Hi,

You put an image of a "colorful tarantula" on the Tarantula article. Do you happen to know the genus and species? Thanks. P0M 19:45, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unident pics
Hi Fir - thanks! The fruiting weed is Solanum pseudocapsicum, originally a native of Madeira and listed in my books as 'widely naturalised in subtropical areas'; it is also very commonly sold as an ornamental plant (including here in Britain, where it can be grown outdoors in mild areas but is mainly a house plant).

The flower, sorry, I don't know what it is. - MPF 11:04, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day
Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Male Blue Dragonfly Australia.jpg is up for Pic of the day on the 8th April. You can edit the caption at Picture of the day/April 8, 2005. -- Solipsist 11:31, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/First Photograph
I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. --brian0918  17:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Semi-FPC
I'd be interested. Do you have a link to it? --brian0918  02:28, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Quarto pics
Hi Fir! We're looking for new photos to illustrate the current edition of the Quarto; I'd love for you to partake in our design discussion, and to help choose the images we use for icons and sidebars. See WQ/Design or drop me a line... perhaps we can have a chat about it via IM or IRC this weekend. +sj +  22:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at WQ/3 and tell me what you think/suggest changes. You can just go in and start making changes, if you see how it can look better; just bear in mind that each page should be reasonably balanced, and shouldn't look too horribly different from WQ/2 et al.  But the limitations of HTML layout may guarantee that...  +sj  +  14:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day
Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Plums.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 24th April. You can review the caption at Picture of the day/April 24, 2005. You know the drill.... -- Solipsist 19:23, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * and the next Pic of the Day is Huntsman spider on Picture of the day/April 26, 2005. -- Solipsist 14:13, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Flower pictures
I looked at your photo gallery, and I'm really impressed. Glad to have been able to help identify some of your flowers.-gadfium 09:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Commons?
I've noticed that you've been uploading pretty much all of your images to Wikipedia, rather than Wikimedia Commons. Please consider uploading them to the latter instead, since that is the method now recommended by Wikipedia, it avoids redundant image copies on different language servers, and provides an appropriate context for a large amount of pictures on the same topic (thus avoiding "additional photos" sections, such as the one in Blackberry). Oh, and great job with all the photos, keep it up! --Aramգուտանգa|  12:28, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Is there any particular reason why Wikipedia is recommending uploading to the commons? And how exactly does it provide an appropriate context for a large amount of pictures on the same topic (do you have any examples?).
 * Do you think its a bad idea having "additional photos"?
 * When you insert an image from the commons to a page in the English Wikipedia, do you still use the "Image:Image.jpg|thumb]]" format?
 * The main reason I don't particularly want to change over to the commons is because when you click on an image you only see the image. To see the description you have to rederict to the commons page.
 * --Fir0002 23:54, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I guess the main reasons behind uploading images to Commons are so that they can be used in all language Wikipedias without any extra effort, and to provide a repository of images on a certain topic without cluttering the article. "Additional photo" sections can make the article look very cluttered and disrupt the flow or structure of an article. But when you have a link on a page that says "if you want to see a bunch of images on the topic, click here!", which is what the Commons link is intended to mean, it makes the context of the images clear, and also encourages people to add more photos, even if they are not better than the ones already there.
 * Inserting an image from Commmons in Wikipedia works in exactly the same way [[Image:blah.jpg|blah]], you don't need to add or worry about anything.
 * To avoid the "see the image's description page on Commons" thing, which I find very annoying too, simply copy the text of the Image article on Commons (the one you see if you click "edit this page" on an Image page) to the Wikipedia article on the image (by clicking "edit this page" on the page that tells you to see Commons for the description). The reason behind this, is so that each language Wikipedia can create the image article on its server, with a translated caption/description in their language, without having to copy the actual image to their server. Hope this makes sense. --Aramգուտանգa|  00:25, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lens/camera
Copied from Pollinator:User talk Hi Pollinator, I just saw your photo of a wasp stinger close up, and was wondering what lens and what camera you used to take this photo. Thanks, --Fir0002 08:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nikon Coolpix 5000. Pollinator 18:42, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Tarantula
Hi Fir,

I was trying to set up the POTD for Image:Brachypelma edit.jpg, but it looks like we might have dropped the ball on this one &mdash; this pic doesn't seem to be illustrating any articles. Am I missing something - has the picture been removed from an article, or is it another version of the same image that is on an article? -- Solipsist 20:21, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Supply the "universal" repository with your tarantula picture?
Hi,

I would like to use your spider picture (the one you offered on the spider discussion page) on the Chinese language site. To do that easily it would be more convenient for me if you could upload it to the world-wide repositiory (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). I would suggest that instead of giving it the filename Brachypelma edit.jpg you call it Brachypelma_sp.jpg. (Fortunately you did record the genus name correctly, and I can guess at the species name but it really doesn't matter. I would just like to introduce the Chinese readers to an attractive kind of tarantula.)

Thanks. P0M 01:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

It looks nice. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8D%95%E9%B3%A5%E8%9B%9B%E7%A7%91 Thanks. P0M 15:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Further info on eucalyptus pictures
Hi Fir0002, I wonder if you could add more information about the pictures used in the Eucalyptus article:  and.

The titles are a bit general so any other information you might have such as where the image was taken and the species of gum in the foreground would be most useful. Regards--AYArktos 23:50, 1 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Thank you for responding to my query with information about the pictures. I have updated the captions on the pictures with the extra information you gave me.  I think it important for an encyclopaedia to identify to this level of detail.  I do plan to review the pictures on the Eucalyptus page and the contribution they make to actually illustrating the article but I will do that through the article's talk page and not unilaterally. Regards--AYArktos 23:41, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Commons

 * In response to User talk:Aramgutang

There doesn't appear to be a way to specify that an image comes from Commons, apparently the software first searches the current namespace, then Commons for the image. However, presumably the images you uploaded on Commons with the same name as on Wikipedia are indended to be a replacement for the Wiki versions, i.e. you want to move the Wiki version to Commons. Moving the images is a separate issue, and creates issues such as concerns over the lost image history. For a discussion of issues related to this, see Wikipedia talk:Moving images to the Commons, which appears to be inconclusive. You may also find the templates Template:NowCommons and Template:Deletebecauseoncommons of interest, although I'm not sure which one is best to use. You can also try asking an admin on Commons about such issues, as they're probably better informed on the status of various policies, discussions and debates. --Aramգուտանգa|  18:13, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Anvil
That's funny - just a couple of days ago I was looking for a better image for anvil (given that the current one is rather small and unsourced). Then, as if by magic, a better one appeared spontaneously. -- Solipsist 12:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Fancy that! I've actually got another one which I haven't uploaded of only the anvil - no blacksmith, do you think it is worth uploading that one? --Fir0002 22:17, May 12, 2005 (UTC)


 * I quite like having the blacksmith in the shot. If the other anvil shot has more colour or shows more of the base and fixings it might be good to have it too, but it is fine as it is. -- Solipsist 10:00, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Strucla
Hey, that's getting interesting! Unfortunately, I don't speak Polish. Do you? Is it possible that "strucla" literally means "braid" in Polish? Hm, probably not. Some more receipes:, , , and finally , describing a Czech (!) braided christmas cake that apparently also goes by the name "strucla" in some regions. Maybe "strucla" is just a generic (Polish?) term for a sweet yeast cake, irrespective of whether it is braided or not?


 * Of course I'd find the best link just after having saved this message. would confirm my "generic term" theory. A Hefezopf could thus be categorized a a particularly simple subtype of what the Poles call strucla. Lupo 00:44, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, BTW, a Hefezopf also tapers off on one end. All the best, Lupo 00:41, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the answer. See User talk:Lupo for a hint on "howka". Lupo 10:11, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Fodder
I didn't remove a picture of a bull eating fodder. If I saw a picture like that, I would have left it because it would have illustrated the concept (stuff that farm animals eat). A picture of plants growing in a tray really doesn't illustrate much of anything. By the way, farmers have been growing fodder for their animals continuously from prehistoric times until today; it is hardly news to them as you argue.

No hard feelings, I hope. I just think that your picture didn't add to the article. I've seen some of your other pictures and they are VERY valuable contributions to the wiki. ike9898 14:08, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, that is reasonable enough. Maybe you should add some of what you told me to the article.  Then, with a good caption, one of your pictures would make a lot of sense.  See you around. ike9898 13:09, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging
From what I can see here, you're a great photographer, and the Wikipedia is graced with your presence. However,(you knew there had to be one :) ), another image of yours has been found without source information. We'd like to keep it, but you need to add more information about where it came from and the permission to use it here.  See Image copyright tags for tags you can use to correct this issue.  My guess is that you took this picture yourself.  If this is correct, can you add a  tag to the page.  That indicates you release it under the GFDL.  You could also just have , which lets you release it into the public domain. For now, the image source is considered  .  If you need help dealing with this problem, post to my talk page.  Superm401 | Talk 19:05, May 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh man, I didn't put it here. Sorry.  I'm not sure if I can find it now.  I'll have to check the history of the images I was going through.  Ahh... Superm401 | Talk 11:55, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Got it. It's Image:Caterpillar spinning cocoon.jpg.  You can add whatever tag you'd like now. Superm401 | Talk 12:00, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Capeweed flower.jpg
Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:53, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for tagging that image. I would appreciate if you would take a quick moment and make certain that all your images are tagged, as that would save me a great deal of time. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 12:40, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * They will all show up your contributions list, so you can parse through that, with a search string of "Image:" Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 12:47, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

FPC
On Commons, have a look at

Template:Featured pictures candidates/Image:Terragen render.jpg

LoopZilla 22:29, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Galah
Fir0002,  Your photos are terrific! The image of the "Galah Eating Peppercorns" is incorrectly captioned, however. I believe the bird in the photo is actually a female Gang-Gang Cockatoo. Sandcityflyer 16:14, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Sydney harbour bridge pic
Hi there, I just wanted to let you know that I have the high resolution version now of this image up for featured picture. Thanks, --Silversmith Hewwo 23:07, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Open Source
Not sure what you mean by this website on User talk:Jimbo Wales but the software Wikipedia is built on is open source. http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ Trödel| talk 23:26, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sunset
Hi Peter. In reference to Image:Sunset.jpg, you wrote "I can upload the orginal with the camera info and all that in the EXIF data". I think it would be wonderful if you'd do that, simply because it's good to have that extra information. If you'd put it at the Commons while you're at it, that would be even better! Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 23:21, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FPCs promoted
Congrats! --Spangineer (háblame)  12:59, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day
Hi Fir,

Your photo Image:Garden orb weaver05.jpg is coming up for Pic of the day on the 17th June. The caption is at Picture of the day/June 17, 2005, I went with Predation as the subject since we have used another photo as a Garden orb weaver spider. -- Solipsist 08:38, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ant pictures on the reference desk
Looks like someone might have found what those ant pictures are after all. Check out the Reference Desk! Also, check out this link: Blue Ant. --HappyCamper 12:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * It just got archived » Reference_desk_archive/June_2005. ¦ Reisio 20:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * My pleasure. You may not have noticed, but Blue Ant was the top entry on DYK on the Main Page last week too.  Thanks for the excellent pictures - without them, I would not have written the page.  -- ALoan (Talk) 09:32, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Flower pictures on the reference desk
Flower has now been identified as well » Reference_desk_archive/June_2005 (Pincushion Hakea). ¦ Reisio 01:11, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

Image query
Have you got a picture of Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnatha) by any chance?--nixie 07:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I wanted the wattle for Australia to show that national flower, I've stuck a fair-use image in there for the time being--nixie 09:55, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Question
Hi fellow Victorian. I have a question for you but I was wanting to keep it private....You don't have an email address for wikipedians to email you. But if you don't mind, please email me and I'll reply with my question. Thanks, --Silversmith Hewwo 11:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, and as for your "unknown pink flower" it's a Camellia japonica Pink Perfection. We have an article with your picture in it: Camellia --Silversmith Hewwo 11:29, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know why my email didn't work. My contact details and other information about me is here: User:Silversmith/On Silversmith. Cheers, --Silversmith Hewwo 12:19, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commons
Hi Fir, when you upload an image to Commons that is already on Wikipedia, could you please add the NowCommons template to the wikipedia version. An example of this is: This makes life much easier for commons editors. Thanks, --Silversmith Hewwo 15:32, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support and Oppose
Hi, Fir0002. I noticed you were using the nifty and  templates that you created on WP:FPC. Some others have used it as well, and I was wondering if all votes should carry Support and  Oppose tags from now on, or if it's just for personal use. :) Thanks, Sango  123  13:26, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * One thing I like about the idea is that it could make it easier to count votes in a vote where there are lots of comments. On the other hand, they could be missused by those who change their votes and don't remove/change them. Perhaps in the future we could just have the template instead of writing the words, and if that is the case it would be very handy if the templates were quick and easy to write i.e  and  or something. --Silversmith Hewwo 13:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry - I really don't like these: I can't see what they add above plain Support or Oppose. As you may have seen, I've listed them on Templates for deletion. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:29, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Fir, I don't recommend changing to s and o as s is already taken by a letter:  and o could be in the future as well. But something else short like Sup and Opp or - and + could work. Just be careful that nothing has been taken is all. Cheers, --Silversmith Hewwo 11:41, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WQ 3
Hello, Fir+ ! I'd appreciate your suggestion of some good panoramas (for header images) and other excellent images, perhaps with a spring theme, to illustrate the Gallery section of the latest Wikimedia Quarto. You might want to coordinate with Mats, who is working on some image selection as well. +sj +  17:28, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Formatting on TfD
Hi Fir0002,

Um, I think your vote on WP:TFD was missing a close tag somewhere; it really chewed up the formatting of the page. Could you re-add your vote on Template:Support, and check that the page looks okay? --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:14, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I restored your vote, but you'll want to add your signature (you can remove my remark above it, if you like.) --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Grasshopper
Well, I don't know why the photo gallery was removed. But I know that it was removed by the same unidentified user (24.250.29.179) that put them there. You can check it here (on 11 May). --Waninoco 11:18, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vote
Hi. The "template for deletion" just breaks the flow, so I though I improve the layout. However, if you prefer it that way, no big problem, I'll just leave it alone. I also voted agains the templates, but this is not a high importance decision for me. Great chestnut pictures by the way! -- Chris 73 Talk

FPC policy change
Please see Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. --brian0918  14:57, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Picture taking tips
Hey! Congrats on the new barnstar to your collection! I have a question for you regarding how to use a camera. Could you take a look at this and suggest some things I can try to make them look better? I have no idea why the pictures come out like that. --HappyCamper 22:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FPC templates
Since it looks like the support/oppose templates will be deleted (thanks to Wikipedia's policy to allow bad reasoning), I've copied them to my user page. You can do the same if you want. Whether you do or don't, please put this at the top of your user/talk page (replacing my name with yours if you copy them to your space):

 = </tt> <tt> = </tt>

Hi Fir,

You might also be interested in a note I left on Brian's talk page to actually measure any difference in server load. Although I would have to admit, at this point it is probably too late to get anyone to change their mind. -- Solipsist 15:11, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Put pix on Wiki Commmons?
Hi,

While looking around for more spider pictures I found one of yours. Would you please consider adding them to the Wikipedia Commons area so that people all over the world could easily put them in Wikipedias in other languages? I transferred some of my own pictures to the Chinese Wikipedia and they requested I move them to Commons. It's no harder to do, and the pictures appear with exactly the same markup language syntax on the English Wikipedia.

Once you get them to the Commons area you could put links to them on the English-language "spider gallery" (see the very bottom of the Spider article where I have made a link). That would make them easier for English speakers to find. You should be able to jump from some of the pictures there (the series of almost totally red spider for instance) to the Wikipedia Commons site. It's a different URL. Once you get there you can bookmark it. It's totally familiar since it's kind of a mirror of the English site.

Best,

P0M 18:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You can go directly to [] to see how I have organized things there. If you have uncategorized spiders you can just make a spot for "uncategorized" at the bottom of the page. P0M 02:50, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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). --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153; 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. --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153; 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. --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153;  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. --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153; 00:29, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153;  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 - 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)

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)

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;
 * ) Using a table, as you currently are
 * ) Using them aligned left on the page with
 * ) 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 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 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  . 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)

Subst
Subst doesn't work for user namespace templates. That was the first thing I tried. --<font color="#000000">brian0918 <font color="#000000">&#153; 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)

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.

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

Promoted Photos

 * 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 Image_copyright_tags? In response to editing your user page, you're welcome! --J. J. 15:31, 2005 July 18 (UTC)

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)

Image:Pomegranate03 edit.jpg
-- Enochlau 14:38, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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 <font color="A29EBA">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 <font color="A29EBA">Uwe Kils [[Image:heringmini.jpg]] 00:24, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

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 for example. LoopZilla 11:06:19, 2005-07-17 (UTC)

Image:Lightning02.jpg
Hi, I really like this pic. I was wondering how you managed to capture it&mdash;what shutter speed, did you have some kind of rapid-fire camera, etc. Thanks! Postdlf 17:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

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:Male Blue Dragonfly Australia.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)

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)

FPC
and

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). -- <b style="color:#000000;">BRIAN</b> 0918  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 :) ) -- <b style="color:#000000;">BRIAN</b> 0918  12:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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. --<font color="A29EBA">Silversmith Hewwo 09:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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

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 - 06:44, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

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 Picture of the day/August 14, 2005. -- Solipsist 20:43, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ... and the caption for the Terragen scene is at Picture of the day/August 16, 2005 for tomorrow's POTD. -- Solipsist 07:38, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

"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)

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)

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]

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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 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 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 &mdash; that's the way of the Wiki. -- Solipsist 21:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Bee flying - promoted
~ Veledan • Talk + new 19:57, 7 September 2005 (UTC)