User talk:Nhobgood

Bobtail squid species
This Bobtail squid is adorable, but is it really Euprymna scolopes? In most of the pictures I've seen, E. scolopes is light-colored and sort of whitish; the squid in your picture is a dark bluish-purple. It looks more like E. berryi to me... but I'm certainly no squidologist! If you're uncertain about the species too, maybe it would be better just to classify it as Euprymna sp. until an expert comes along? Vectornaut (talk) 02:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Cuttlefish
Hi there. Do you know what species of cuttlefish this is? Wonderful image by the way! Mgiganteus1 (talk) 09:54, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Mgiganteus, thanks for the comment. I am pretty sure this is Broadclub Cuttlefish, Sepia latimanus. I will update the entry with this information. Nhobgood (talk) 19:39, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Comb jelly
Hi Nick -- It is a nice picture, but your comb jelly is a little pyrosome (a colonial salp) and not a ctenophore. beroe (talk) 20:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Beroe. The image has been moved. Nick Nhobgood (talk) 01:12, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Gastropod images
Hi Nhobgood! I wanted to thank you for your really superb marine gastropod images. Invertzoo (talk) 17:48, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure and I hope to collect more soon ! Nhobgood (talk) 20:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Ah, a couple more excellent images made into new stubs! Invertzoo (talk) 01:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

East Timor
Hi there. I notice East Timor has no fauna/ecology section. Do you have sources to write - or at least start - such a section? A couple of years ago, I wrote the equivalent section in Indonesia. regards --Merbabu (talk) 23:23, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Pessac International Salon of Photographic Art 2010 and Bordeaux Photo-phylles International Salon 2010
Jean Jacques MILAN

29, rue Montaigne

33170 GRADIGNAN

France

(Jean-Jacques MILAN ( talk ) 13:59, 27 November 2009 (UTC), administrator of the french wikibooks)

Dear friend photographer,

During our eighth International Salon of photographic Art and our third Salon Photo-phylles, located in Pessac and in Bordeaux from February to May 2010 we wish to show the work of guest of honor photographers. The rules are published here : http://photoclub.biganos.free.fr/images/stories/PCVE/zoom33/Salon%20Pessac%202010/r%C3%A9glement%202010.pdf

Yours photographs retained our attention and we would be pleased to count you among our guests. If you agree to participate, we ask you to send us around ten pictures representatives of your work. These pictures can be printed on paper (maximum format 30 x 40 cm), but you also can send us high definition digital files. We will print your files on a calibrated professional machine. These files can be sent on a CDrom to the address located above, mailed at _zoom33@wanadoo.fr _ or downloaded through links from a web site.

We would really appreciate a short note for presenting you and your work to the public and for printing on the catalogue.

Obviously, the pictures or the prints we will make of your submissions will be returned to you with the catalogue. Your postal fees will be reimbursed. We do not have a lot of money, but we will do our best to send you a small souvenir.

Waiting for a positive answer, we send you our best regards.

Claude BACCHIANA In charge of the photo club Espoir Pessacais

Jean-Jacques MILAN In charge of the International Salon of Pessac


 * This message was first left on your page in Wikimedia Commons, but unsuccessfully. --Jean-Jacques MILAN (talk) 00:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Periclimenes imperator
I've nominated one of your images for featured picture status here. I thought you'd like to know :) J Milburn (talk) 23:45, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Australian blenny
And another :) J Milburn (talk) 10:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks J Milburn, Much appreciated. Nick Nhobgood (talk) 16:21, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Bryaninops yongei
Sorry about the debacle that was the last FPC nom, but I have started another with your goby shot, after I wrote an article on the genus. Hopefully this one will go more smoothly. J Milburn (talk) 20:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Nhobgood (talk) 12:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

That commensal relationship
Hi, your beautiful pic will be displayed in the next edition of The Signpost.

I wonder, BTW, whether you'd consider being our invited judge for next week's Choice of the week? It would mean writing a short paragraph on Saturday or early Sunday, after our Saturday–Friday weekly window closes. Please let me know. Tony  (talk)  12:52, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Tony! I would be happy to participate. - Nick Nhobgood (talk) 10:42, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ping. Tony   (talk)  03:40, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Images nominated at WP:FPC
Currently there are two images of yours nominated. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:23, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks PLW! - Nick Nhobgood (talk) 10:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

White spotted jellyfish
Hi, putting this pic at the top of F and A next week. Any story of how you came across the specimen? You were scuba diving, I presume. Just looking for one or two quotable fragments. Tony  (talk)  06:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks Tony ! Yes, this jellyfish was encountered while Scuba diving at approximately 12 meters depth off of a 45 meter wall on the East side of the mouth of Fort-Liberté bay in Northern Haiti. Local fishermen say the bay is a breeding area for jellyfish, attracting juvenile Loggerhead sea turtles that feed on the jellyfish.  The fishermen also claim that the Mangrove complex in the southern part of the bay is home for Manatees. --Nhobgood (talk) 13:32, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Nick. I'll use some of this. Tony   (talk)  14:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

The coral and the urchin, when they are both full grown...
We had a question. Thanks. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

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POTD notification
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POTD
Absolutely amazing image. i thought at first that WP had been vandalized and someone had placed an amazing collage of disparate images where the POTD should have been. In other words, the image at first glance made absolutely no sense, which just shows how utterly amazing the world can be if you look at it the right way. thanks for the work!Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:01, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Beautiful, beautiful work! Petersontinam (talk) 10:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

POTD notification
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks ! Nhobgood (talk) 19:25, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks Crisco 1492 for all the work on Wikipedia. Your accomplishments are quite impressive! Nhobgood (talk) 19:31, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Not nearly as impressive as yours, by the looks of all these underwater images coming through — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:12, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * Thanks again Crisco! Nhobgood (talk) 06:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Caesio teres in Fiji by Nick Hobgood.jpg

 * Thanks Armbrust ! Nhobgood (talk) 20:33, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

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 * Nhobgood (talk) 04:54, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Thanks Chris! Much appreciated.

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Thanks a bunch, Chris ! Nhobgood (talk) 19:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks again, Chris !! Nhobgood (talk) 16:12, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:23, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

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File:Combjelly.jpg?
Hi there,

Leaving this message since it looks like you've been active here more recently than on Commons. I've just left you a message on your userpage there. Thanks. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 22:36, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD
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