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Featured Picture
Your image Image:Plasma-lamp 2.jpg has been promoted to Featured Picture. Congratulations, and thank you for taking to many wonderful pictures for us. Raven4x4x 03:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture promotion!
--  howch e  ng   {chat} 23:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I am not able to understand everything that you are saying. Perhaps you could try typing in french and using a translation program so that I can understand better. I'm sorry that you were not happy with the image or the information credits for it. You could have fixed this yourself though if you wanted. I would try but I am really not sure what you would like me to do. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 08:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Is the image better now? I have pasted all of the text from the old image to the new image. If you are not happy with it now, you can make changes too. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:17, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It already is on the commons and always was. See here: . Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Solar eclips 1999 4 NR.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on December 27, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations!  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:12, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Belgium
Bonjour,

j'ai pris l'initiative de créer WikiProject Belgium, si tu veux contribuer vous êtes vraiment bienvenu! Je crains un peu que nous manquons des contribueurs Wallons et Francophones...

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Bluetit Images
Hi, sorry I removed your gallery but we generally try to promote linking to commons galleries now (hopefully more folks will use them there!). The best thing is to place a photo next to relevant text. cheers, Casliber | talk  |  contribs 10:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:LviatourCredit
A template you created, Template:LviatourCredit, has been marked for deletion as a deprecated and orphaned template. If, after 14 days, there has been no objection, the template will be deleted. If you wish to object to its deletion, please list your objection here and feel free to remove the   tag from the template. If you feel the deletion is appropriate, no further action is necessary. Thanks for your attention. --MZMcBride 19:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

FPC Nom
Congratulations! A picture you uploaded, Image:Full Moon Luc Viatour.jpg, has been nominated for Featured Picture over at Featured Picture Candidates. You can come to participate in the discussion and vote here. --Nautica Shad e  s  17:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Full Moon
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Full Moon Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 12, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-12.  howcheng  {chat} 17:53, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Vitruvian Man
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 18, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-18.  howcheng  {chat} 00:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Vitruvian Man
Hi Luc! I notice you've put two of your pics up on the Leonardo page.. The quality is fantastic, appart from two probs.
 * 1) They are both two red, because you've photographed them inside, without flash (the responsible way to do it) and have not adjusted suffficciently for the effect that this has. It makes everything more red.
 * 2) When reproducing images for the purpose of writing about art history, artworks are almost always reproduced without their frames. The only exception to this is polyptychs which are set into a large frame designed to hold several panels. And Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, is occasionally shown framed because the frame is probably Michelangelo's own work. A modern frame reproduced as part of an ancient drawing is simply not done. One reason is that it effects the way we view the tonality of the picture.

So, could you please edit both pics and any others that you have like these. I can assure you, that if I had known that the Vitruvian man had been put up for Featured Picture, I would have commented to you that it was much less useful with the frame than without it, and that despite the intense clarity of detail, it needed colour adjustment. I'm one of the major writers (probably the major writer) on general art history topics from Medieval through to High Renaissance, on English wiki. I could really use your pics, if the colour and tonality is right. With an aim to getting the best possibly quality, I have editted (and uploaded a version of) your Vitruvian man to a better colour. I did this simply be dropping the colour intensity a few notches. The effect was immediately to bring out a lot of subtlety not apparent in your pic. I didn't actually need to do a colour balnce. It was more a matter of intensity. Your pic is coming across more intense than most of the other wiki pictures.

The way you are seeing it could have to do with the adjustment of the monitor. I've fiddled with mine quite a bit to get a good balance. There is also the matter that I am female, and possibly see the colours with finer definition. When I adjusted it a little, lots of colours appeared that had previously bbeen dominated by the red. The fact that all the dirty fingerprints down each side are not simply a darker tone, but also a cooler, slightly bluer colour became apparent. This is what one expects from looking at old manuscripts that have been handled. Can you please take a look at my editted version, with an aim to doing a slight editt to your own. Then we can delete my version.

Apology I spelled your name wrongly! Please forgive me! Amandajm 03:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Ignore this for a little while. I will do some more experiments with the colour on the version that I have downloaded. Amandajm 09:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * He is a little bit dirty in the middle! I think the colour is not evenly distributed. It is pink at the top and bottom, but more grey in the middle. Is there a way to adjust this? My picture is grey in the middle, also! Also, can you take off the black border?
 * It is dinner time, here in Australia! But it must be morning in Europe! Good Morning! Are you in France or Belgium? Amandajm 09:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Brussels
I see that you are in Brussels! My son and I visited in 2000. We had very good fortune, because the King of Spain was also visiting. So the city performed the Carnival of Brussels for the King, even though it was not the right time in the year. One day, we went to St. Gudule to see the architecture, but the King of Belgium and the King of Spain were looking at the exhibition of tapestries, which were loaned from the Escorial. We were not allowed to take photographs. Your photographs are very beautiful. The facade of St Gudule has very good proportions. Is it medieval, or was it rebuilt in the 19th century? Amandajm 10:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I was asking about the facade. in particular. I see that it is 15th century. I have to be careful, because when I write about German Cathedrals, many had very great changes in the 19th century, so, for example, the Baroque facade is demolished and replaced with one that is truly German! Or maybe like Cologne Cathedral, completed in 1880. We had a lovely day looking at the Churches, including St Mary of the Sands. And also the Art Nouveau houses. Amandajm 10:43, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Leonardo again
Because there are now two pictures and both have the black frames, it is good. It is better than when only one had the black frame. It is very good to be able to see these works in such fine detail, at full resolution. Amandajm 01:04, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Studies of Embryos
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Da Vinci Studies of Embryos Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 28, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-08-28.  howcheng  {chat} 21:54, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

what is your source for Da Vinci images?
Hi Lviatour, Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! They are wonderful. I would like to know where you photographed your Da Vinci images. Did you photograph originals? I think this would be important information to add to the image page. Thanks! --cda (talk) 13:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * An exceptional exhibition took place in Brussels last year grouping several original Da Vinci from around the world.

I have been authorized to make pictures for the press. The complete gallery is here and french information. If we need others, I know even add on Wikipedia: http://www.lucnix.be/main.php?g2_itemId=43288 --Luc Viatour (talk) 08:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * thanks Lviatour --cda (talk) 16:57, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Synchiropus splendidus 2 Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 13, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-10-13.  howcheng  {chat} 22:04, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Photographers Barnstar
Yes I saw your picture on commons featured the other day and looked into it and found loads more of yours, well done Highfields (talk, contribs, review) 15:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Stunt Pyrotechnics Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-03-25.  howcheng  {chat} 18:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Fire breathing 2 Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 19, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-04-19.  howcheng  {chat} 21:53, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize you took this photo; it's absolutely outstanding! ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 06:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Great
Your is really brilliant.Congrat.Your're perfect, Mr.Lviatour. Koc61 (talk) 12:01, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Review of closure process 2
Because you've contributed to FPC either recently or in the past, I'm letting you know about the above poll on the basis of which we may develop proposals to change our procedures and criteria. Regards, Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 22:53, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Goura scheepmakeri sclaterii 1 Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 4, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-05-04.  howcheng  {chat} 22:39, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Psetta maxima Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 11, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-05-11.  howcheng  {chat} 18:09, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Merops bullockoides 1 Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 20, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-05-20.  howcheng  {chat} 17:41, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Euplectes franciscanus
Hi, I thought you would like to know that I have nominated one of your images for featured picture status, here. Thanks, J Milburn (talk) 21:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Miomantis paykullii Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 6, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-07-06.  howcheng  {chat} 09:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Lucifer Liege
Dear Lviatour;
 * Your picture awarded as a featured picture on the Turkish language Wikipedia. See it on there. We have the page of Le génie du mal but this page includes some detailed part of your picture. Could you load to Commons them or we could? Sincerely.--a[.]med »»ileti 10:07, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Sybilla pretiosa Cryptic mantis Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 4, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-09-04.  howcheng  {chat} 22:24, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the Day interview for Wikimedia blog
Hi Lviatour,

My name is Alice Roberts and I'm a communications intern with the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. We have a feature on the Foundation blog to profile the photographers behind the beautiful photos that become Picture of the Day (POTD) on the Commons home page. You can see some of our past POTD posts here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/picture-of-the-day/

Given that your photo is scheduled for 5 December 2012, we'd love to do a short interview with you either by phone, Skype, or email to discuss your work and your POTD. If you are interested, please email me at aroberts@wikimedia.org and I will send you a short list of questions.

Thanks,

Aroberts (WMF) (talk)

POTD notification


Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Lanzarote 5 Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 8, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-10-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:45, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

POTD notification


Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ara ararauna Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 12, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-10-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:21, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Lesser galangal
Hi. Could you add a scale for this photo. Thanks.--Theparties (talk) 14:54, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Zebrasoma flavescens Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 27, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-09-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:23, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Merops nubicus luc viatour-crop.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 24, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-10-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:59, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Felis silvestris silvestris Luc Viatour.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 25, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-02-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Panorpa alpina 2 Luc Viatour.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 5, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-06-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:56, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming POTD
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File: is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 2, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-02-02. — howcheng  {chat} 01:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi Luc,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Maroc Marrakech Agdal Luc Viatour 1.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 5, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-04-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:42, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Perfect combination of luck and skill
The frame on those carp is a perfect diamond. Really once in a lifetime shot. Thank you. I enjoy sandwiches (talk) 04:18, 5 April 2017 (UTC)