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User talk:Fir0002/Archive 4Panorama photoHello. Remember that panorama of mountains you wonderfully stitched for me ? [1] I have just been in the same place this weekend but the weather was completely different. It rained all day. So I have made similar pics from the same place like the last time. It would be nice to see the changes of weather. Can you take a look at these pics? They are at: [2], [3], [4], [5],[6] . Thank you very much. I think it could be problem with clouds as the wind blowed stronger and they were faster. Thank you in advance. - Darwinek 13:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Fir, Whilst I'm applaud your new panoramic sunset photo (nice job), you could have been a little more diplomatic with your edit summary when replacing the previous image. I notice that we also now have a bit of a POV issue on the sunset page, in that all sunsets appear to occur within the vicinity of Swifts Creek. On the whole I agree with User:Dschwen's decision to remove the gallery (well its a bit borderline), so it would be good to replace one or the other of the images there with an alternative from Commons. For one thing, the article really ought to have a sunset image that shows the sun at or near the horizon - one involving a sunset over the sea is another idea. -- Solipsist 08:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Ensay ChapelHey, Where did you get the pic of the chapel from? Now it seems like it is a Chapel that was on the Island of Ensay (Scotland), so not sure of its relevance to our article. Why not put it into the currently non-existent article on the island instead? --jjron 08:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for stayingI went up to the snow with my family last week. Both along the great alpine road and at dinner plain I tried to pick the spot from which your panoramas had been taken. Thanks for staying on board; your photos are fantastic and have been enjoyed by my whole family (including my uncle who's a professional wedding photographer).Don't worry too much about VCE, I'm sure you'll do fine. :-) • Leon 10:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC) I didn't have the photo in front of me, but I thought one of them may have been taken from a stretch of road on the Bright side of the main village, although there was nowhere to stop so perhaps it wasn't. We came up through Bright but returned via Omeo. If you're in Swifts Creek, we saw a huge slide there which my sister wanted to go on - but it was shut ... also, we realised afterwards it was in a school of some sort. Oops.• Leon 11:38, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Swifts' Creek if I remember correctly struck my dad and I as being really green, which is good because I don't like endless fields as scenery, or at all really :-(. It's certainly wonderfully located (even though my sense country geography sucks)! Our family doesn't usually head out north east so it's a good change. • Leon 12:52, 19 August 2006 (UTC) FPC Candidate (Siberian tiger)A comment was recently posted by Samsara on the Siberian tiger FPC. It concerned placing the image in another article (see the subpage for the exact comment). I have now added the image to the stretching article, so you may or may not consider changing your vote (this is just to inform you of the change). Thanks. --Tewy 00:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Bullfrog photoI don't agree with your recent change to the Bullfrog article. The new photo is barely better than the original in focus (if any), and does not show the distinguishing characteristics of the frog. Generally, a photo of a frog should be of the same posture as that of the original. A photo should show the tympanum (which can only just be seen in the new photo), dorsal patterning and general shape of the frog. The new photo barely shows any of these. Thanks --liquidGhoul 09:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
CorrectionHi, would you be able to lighten the background on this image Image:Australian coat of arms 1912.jpg. Thanks. --Peta 02:57, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Upsampling & sharpeningUnfortunately I cannot access your wiki e-mail, so I answer here. Yes please, I'd like you to make a try... The image in question is here - the editor of Live Steam magazine loves it, wants it on the cover, and we have discussed the low resolution. The problem is, she wants to crop it to a vertical format, thus using only half of the available pixels... If you can do something, it would be great! (I've done what I can in Photoshop, but need something even better...) You can find my e-mail address low down on this page. Thanks, --Janke | Talk 08:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC) TfD nomination of Template:Fir0002Template:Fir0002 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. howcheng {chat} 18:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC) FPC socksHi, thanks for mentioning the votes on FPC page which weren't real. I promise those weren't my socks since the IP was diffrent than mine. (I have the same IP for at least a week). I took the votes off. And you got a nice page dude. Arad 00:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC) Featured Picture
Congratulations! - Mikeo 00:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
And again... ! Raven4x4x 09:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
User Pejman47It's funny, but i think that this user supported my images because he is Iranian (Pejman is an Iranian name) and those images were from Iran. And maybe because I told some Iranians on Wikipedia to comment on my images and FPCs. Anyways, User Pejman47 is not a recently created user. I think user Babayi might have the same case, although his account is new. Congratulations for your Featured Pictures again. I'm pretty sure Pejman's votes weren't just give aways. Thank you Arad 21:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC) Bairnsdale PicsHey, was down in Bairnsdale on Sat and noticed that the flower beds are coming out in full bloom. Could be time to get some good pics, e.g., of the rotunda. In a couple of weeks the trees will probably even have leaves and look more attractive. It was too late in the day when I got there and the light was all wrong, so I didn't take any. I probably won't get down there again at a reasonable time for maybe a couple of months, so just thought if you are heading down there you might go prepared to take a few snaps. Re the rotunda, I personally think that angle of my pic is the best, i.e., with the Commercial Hotel in the background, but there's nothing wrong with trying a few different angles. --jjron 03:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC) TemplatesHi, Fir. A template you used to use to tag your images, {{Template:Fir0002}}, has been moved to User:Fir0002/Copyright. The relevenat disucssion can be found here. Feel free to move it somewhere else, I just picked an arbitrary place. Just a heads up, RyanGerbil10(Kick 'em in the dishpan!) 00:28, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
McMillan's LookoutVery nice, lovely sky. I especially like the first one (well 02 actually), despite the second one being taller and having - is it the moon or Venus - in the sky. As you said, perhaps not as informative as mine, but as discussed before, the view from there is not the best largely due to the scraggly foreground, and that gets lost in these with the dusk. Do you think they might benefit from a crop at the left to remove that awkward looking bit of cloud? I don't think it would hurt them otherwise. It would be nice to work these in somewhere. I have shifted them to the Benambra page on Commons. --jjron 11:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Panorama photoHello again. My vacation just turned to an end and I have taken a few pics in the mountains. I feel kind of uncomfortable bothering you again. I swear this time is gonna be the last time in this year. :) I can stitch the photos together but can't edit the colors etc. of subsequent photos to look natural together. Photos are at: [7], [8] and [9]. Thank you very much. P.S. You are a pro, what do you think about this panorama? Is it a FP material? - Darwinek 11:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Featured picture candidateOn Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2B Glider 2 the voting seems to have started again. Would you put in another positive vote? JMcC 16:47, 6 September 2006 (UTC) Another FP
I always love to see great pictures like this. Thanks again for finding them. Raven4x4x 03:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Peter - any chance you could find out what cultivar these are? If you can find the same again in the shop, it should tell you either on the shelf label, or on the producer's box that they are in. Thanks! - MPF 10:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC) Great questionGreat question over at the reference desk about deaf people's thoughts. Really got me thinking. Batmanand | Talk 13:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC) Grammar on FlagstaffotosHey Fir0002. I was on your Flagstaffotos site, on the Services page to be precise. I just noticed you typed professional’s, where grammatically it should be professionals. Sorry for being a grammar nazi, I just had to let you know ;). — JeremyTalk 06:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC) Melbournce ZooHey Fir, I was wondering if you are going to go to the zoo or any botanical gardens in the near future (or anything similar, where species are labelled). If you do, would you be able to leave a note on WP:AWNB? Thanks. --liquidGhoul 10:42, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Nice Userpage!I happened to find your page, and I liked the look of it! Cool pictures, too. Also, I saw the argument of the voting thumbnails, and while those with slow computers would get frustrated, I think it's a good idea. Cheers! The RSJ - SPEAKThe RSJ at the RS Wiki 18:53, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
PanoramasHey Fir, just thought I'd drop by and say a few things. Firstly, as you well know, your images are awesome, keep up the good work! Secondly, I saw your note to Froggydarb about panorama software and, having used up my trial period, have just purchased a copy of Arcsoft PanoramaMaker - it's excellent, so thanks for the recommendation. Thirdly, I'd appreciate any comments you might have on this image which is the first new pano I've shot since handing over my cash. Is it encyclopaedic? I've had it unfavourably compared with this one on Talk:Severn crossing but I don't think that's really fair. I'm not suggesting you weigh in on that discussion (I think JRawle is largely right) but I'd like to know what you think of the image. Cheers, --Yummifruitbat 20:19, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Image:Barbed wire.jpgHi Fir0002, while emptying backlogged image categories, I noticed this image uploaded by you. I have removed the no source tag, and hopefully you can provide info as to whether it was self-taken or where you got it from. Thanks, DVD+ R/W 19:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Image:Telescope and night sky.jpgI have removed this image from the Astronomy page because it suffers from a few problems:
Problem #1 and #3 could be fixed with image manipulation and editing respectively. Problem #2 may require a different photograph... one depicting the "activity" (have a look at [Image:Astronomy Amateur 3 V2.jpg] for an example). Sorry to get all "photo editor" on your case... with a little work it can be a good illustration. Halfblue 14:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC) Advertising?After looking through your other images (very good by the way) I noticed they all seem to have a variation of the following tag:
I don't know if this has been brought up before (by someone other than me) but offering to license you images on a commercial basis could be Wikipedia violation (Advertisements masquerading as an article). You may want to read Wikipedia policies regarding advertising WP:ADS and consider modifying you tag. Halfblue 14:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
There are several valid reasons to do something on Wikipedia but "other people do it" is not one of them (well--- at least not until its agreed upon in a consensus decision). And Image pages are part of Wikipedia and therefore have to comply with Wikipedia guidelines. That is not to say what you are doing is wrong. It could be 100% legit, above board, and acceptable re: Wikipedia guidelines. I think I should clarify.
The problem that caught my attention is that the wording on your tag can be taken both ways. It may need to be clarified. Halfblue 18:14, 19 September 2006 (UTC) PS - if this has been duscussed before (and I am re-inventing the wheel here ;^)) can you link me to that discussion? Was a consensus reached? Halfblue 18:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
POTDThis is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Tambo vallery races 2006 edit.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on October 5, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 17:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC) your picturesThe only thin i wanted to say to your work: great Pictures, simply great. :) Go on. 217.228.2.153 12:53, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Image:MG 0053.jpg listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:MG 0053.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (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. Nv8200p talk 18:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Edit of Nishi Tribal FPCNo problem, delete away! ♠ SG →Talk 11:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC) Image:Large convex lens.jpg
Thanks for helping outThanks for helping out with the Nishi Tribal FP. The original was also a FP on the Indian Portal. I prefer the new edit a lot - what should be done with the old image? It would be better if that were deleted and the new one goes in place. FPC Promotion
Suppose I'd better congratulate myself ;-) --Fir0002 10:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
This is to let you know the Featured Picture you uploaded and/or nominated Image:Male mallard flight - natures pics.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the day on December 11, 2006, when it will be featured on the Main Page. Congratulations! howcheng {chat} 17:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC) submarine spitfire FPCHello Fir0002 - I would prefer to support the original. My first indication of support was for that one, and while almost all the edits helped in various ways, it is frankly a bit hard for me to distinguish some of them on my laptop screen. Thanks for helping to bring the nomination to consensus. Debivort 02:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Supermarine Spitfire nomHey, Fir. Well, I personally couldn't decide between edits 2 and 4, so my vote is useless. I thought it was time to just do a tally and close the nom. While #4 does have a majority, I took into account oppose votes -- even though they're not usually counted the way I did. No one actually opposed edit 2, but several people opposed edit 4; that's why I gave edit 2 the lead. You do make a good point about how you didn't vote against edits 1-3, so, by all means, reopen the vote. I'm thinking the only way this will end is with a good ol' fashion round of Rock, Paper, Scissors. ♠ SG →Talk 14:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Help wantedDear Peter, would you please spend a minute or two and help me touch up this image of myself: Image:Crzrussian 2001.jpg. It's got some weird stuff going on in the lower left-hand corner, and some weird pixels in my left armpit. I am sure there are other magical ways you can make it look better. Hope it's not too much to ask for. Thanks, - CrazyRussian talk/email 15:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Pomegranate on TVI was watching Insight today, and saw your pomegranate photo on it. It was on the desktop of one of the speaker's computer. --liquidGhoul 05:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
GmailCan you check your Gmail, if you haven't already. --jjron 08:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Yet another hello!Hey Fir! Just thought I would pop by and wish you good luck for your exams. Maybe this will make you smile while you are *very* busy studying (wink :P). --Ali K 11:30, 14 October 2006 (UTC) Yet another barnstar!- Enjoy! - Jam01 07:57, 15 October 2006 (UTC) I am glad you enjoyed it; you deserved it; and I wish you the best of luck with your exams! - Jam01 07:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Great Commons workHi, I've just been admiring some of your wonderful work on Commons (both your own shots and those by others you've uploaded). Since the pics you're putting up are so obviously of value, and will probably continue to be used for years, could I beg you to include better descriptions with them? I know you're busy right now (Good Luck!), but before your next upload session, take a look at Tips & tricks: A perfect upload. Give as much information as you can, including stuff that to you is obvious, like country/location of pic. I used to work in a museum archive, and we had all these amazing images from some of the pioneers of photography in the UK - with frustrating one-word descriptions on the back! All best wishes, and hope the exams go well. JackyR | Talk 14:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC) Compound eyeGreat image addition! -AED 07:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Featured picture promotion!
PhotoI just made an article for Heniochus acuminatus with your picture in it. Nice picture. Maybe you could take a look. I just nominated it for the DYK so maybe it will get on the front page before it does in the featured picture box. Dark jedi requiem 21:01, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Featured picture promotion!
Article Creation and Improvement DriveHello, I'm -Gphoto and I noticed that you are involved with the WikiProject Photography and are a photographer and I was wondering if you would please vote for Photography to be improved at the Article Creation and Improvement Drive. Thanks, -Gphoto 21:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
You posted that you had promoted this image on October 8th after the FPC passed but the image itself seems to have not been promoted from what I can see. –– Lid(Talk) 14:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC) Cowra, NSWHi. Just wondering if when you get time you can have a quick look at Cowra, New South Wales and the photos on Commons of Cowra (the first 7 there are mine) to see if you reckon any would stand a chance on FP. Some are OK, but perhaps not quite there - I can put them up at a bit higher res if they look to be worth a shot. Thanks --jjron 09:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC) support either dragonflyHello Fir - I've indicated support for either version of the dragonfly FPC. Cheers! Debivort 08:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC) How's it going? I've indicated my support for either version of the dragonfly photograph. Did you actually take that photo? If so, great work! Ackatsis 09:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Reply vote on Dragonfly compound eyeSure, I've added a comment to the discussion where I specify that I prefer the uncropped one. Regards.--Húsönd 12:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC) Re: Gallery on MDF's userpageHi Nautica,
Congratulations
I noticed that the above image uploaded by you to en.wikipedia (later moved to Commons) has been deleted (from Commons) for having a unknown source. if you are the photographer of this image then please specify this on commons:Image talk:Aquarium-Melbourne.jpg and the image might be recreated. /Lokal_Profil 20:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Dragonfly picture rocks mate.splendid! --Jinxs 10:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Featured picture promotion!
Image:Reflected sunset.jpgHi. I work in a primary school in Birmingham, in England. I change the desktop background from time to time to keep from being boring, and at the moment I'm using Commons:Image:Reflected sunset.jpg. Could you add a little more information about where it is, please, so that I can tell the kids? --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 12:02, 13 November 2006 (UTC) what about some tips in a wikibookHi, first of all congratulations for your great pictures. Since you are so good in taking pictures, why don't you help writing the wikibook about Digital Photography?? about now it's very basic, but you could write some sections about how to take pictures in particular conditions, providing examples such as some of your great pictures. I like photography, but I'm very bad at it and I still have no time to improve it: if you add some of your experience on wikibook (or anywhere else!), it could be very useful for me and for anybody else who wants to help wikipedia with pictures. Thanks anyway for your help here Alessio Damato 17:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC) I was about to schedule this image for another POTD when I noticed that according to the article in which it lives (Exopterygota), dragonflies don't belong in this superorder, so I removed it from here. The reason I'm writing to you, however, is now this image lacks an article, which means it could be delisted from FP status, so I thought you might want to find a new home for it. Dragonfly (where it used to appear, I'm guessing, based on its initial POTD blurb is kind of full of pictures, and I can't figure out what species the Australian Blue Dragonfly is, although my Google search did turn up [10]. If this is the same species, you could stub out an article for this picture. Regards, howcheng {chat} 17:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the cleanup Hey thanks for cleaning up this image, it looks alot better. I need to build a light tent and get some proper backgrounds. This may not be a FP, but your cleanup it far better suited to the Habanero chile article. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 23:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC) HDR ImagingHey soooo your FPC is actually multiple photos taken at different exposures? That's wicked crazy fun. How do you join them..?? Did you have to get a plugin for photoshop, and if so, did it cost $$$? I found one for photoshop.. and uh, it cost $$$. I like free stuff ;). drumguy8800 C T 10:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC) Signs of Life!Hey Fir, How are you? Nice to see some signs of life from you, it means you must have survived your exams :P. Now, if you dont see me after the 29th of November, you will know that I did not survive. Talk to you soon, --Ali K 10:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Question regarding your edited photographsI've noticed that often your third-party edits have "edit" in the file name. On your original works, do you somehow indicate whether or not the photo has been edited(like on the talk page, or in the file name)? --DonES 16:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Filename problemsHi, I've noticed many problems with filenames containing an ampersand since somebody changed the system software about three weeks ago. I just noticed that Image:Wolf spider&egg sac02.jpg won't show up anymore. I've asked for the software to be fixed, but it seems that nobody is in charge of doing anything about such complaints. The other solution is to re-download with a new filename. I can do that with my own images, but I don't know how to copy over the permissions, etc., and I thought that in any event it would be better if you would take care of the matter. Thanks. P0M 23:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
hang in thereHey Fir - just wanted to leave a note saying I appreciate your FPC contributions and don't want you to leave. I think people's response to your recent nominations may reveal a bit of jealousy. Keep em coming! Debivort 01:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC) FPC stressHey Fir - I hope you're not feeling too got-at; Dschwen was well out of order with his comment at your echidna nom. Just thought I'd reassure you that, although sometimes it doesn't seem to get expressed very well, your contributions are massively appreciated here. I've given the matter quite a bit of thought over time, and come to the conclusion that self-nominations should be just as welcome as any others at FPC - to me, FP's most important role is in encouraging the contribution of high-quality photos by everyday users; NASA don't need us to tell them that they're taking cool pictures. Although I don't think the echidna shot is one of your best, I can't see how you did any harm in nominating it - in fact, I think you show admirable resilience in continuing to nominate your photos despite some pretty rude remarks directed at you from various quarters. It saddens me that FPC has become quite a rough ride for the uninitiated; in some ways it's even worse that people who regularly contribute superb work get subjected to bad-faith insinuations and sometimes excruciating nit-picking, but I guess that's human nature for you. People like you, Diliff and Aka have raised the bar at FPC and Wikipedia is much the richer for your work. On the other hand - and although he has a bloody odd way of expressing himself - I can't help but agree with just a little of Arad's sentiment. You won't do yourself any good by letting the naysayers wind you up, so when you feel yourself getting hot under the collar, might I (delicately) suggest you take a deep breath, look back at your veritable array of barnstars, and just let it go over your head? There are some people for whom nothing is ever good enough, but for every one of them there's several others who're 100% impressed by your skill and dedication. Feel good about what you've achieved at Wikipedia, keep on striving for the excellence we all know you're capable of, and don't let the bastards grind you down. :-)
Queen Elizabeth II portraitImage:Queen elizabeth the second portrait.jpg listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Queen elizabeth the second portrait.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Borisblue 21:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC) EchidnaHey I just saw your Echidna shot on the FPC. I'm not sure where you're at exactly, but if you can get to Kangaroo Island, you'll see heaps of Echidnas out and about near the roads. You can get much closer and get a better shot. I've taken three trips there and have always seen at least one, whereas in and around Adelaide, I've never seen any. Keep up the good work and that image of the flies mating is awesome! --Cody.Pope 04:27, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Featured picture promotion!
Thought you might want to know about this, it has the same goals as Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography, but is better organized. --Gphototalk 18:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC) Welcome Back!Hey Fir0002, Welcome Back from Melbourne! Hope your trip was a good one and that your award is well worth bragging about :P --Ali K 12:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Picture editI have a picture I want to add to the Wikipedia, and was curious if you could rotate and crop it. Any chance you could do that? Dark jedi requiem 22:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC) Another Featured Picture
Congratulations again! Raven4x4x 06:47, 3 December 2006 (UTC) Please have a look at your [commons user page]. --gildemax 17:01, 3 December 2006 (UTC) housefly IDHi Fir - I was wondering how confident you are of the species identification of your fly. I've tried keying it and it comes out in the family Anthomyiidae largely because the calypters appear to be of similar size. See Question 6 on this page. Do you have any other images of it? Such as a downward shot of the wings? or a closer view of the thorax? Debivort 18:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC) The next few days...Hey Fir, stay safe over the weekend, I know the fires are going to be at their worst then. Hope to see you soon, and thinking of you, --Ali K 02:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC) Didn't realise they were near you. Good luck, stay safe. You will be fine. ViridaeTalk 07:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
A Graphic Lab to improve ImagesA Graphic Lab have Started on Wikipedia-en. You can help by reading this page, and help to copying some page from the french version.To learn how work a Graphic Lab, please see the French and Deutsch Graphic Labs : Deutsch | Français (which are already working). NoticeI would like to notify you that I fixed a wikilink on your User:Fir0002/1yr on Wiki page. Excellent user page! s d 3 1 4 1 5 final exams! 14:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC) .comwhoops. it must have slipped my mind. thank you. Ilikefood 21:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Graphics LabI saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC) oooooooooohh, aaaaaaaaahAli K: *wolf whistle* "Peter made The Age, Peter made The Age!"... and about time too, huh? :P --Ali K 07:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Guess the talk-page section title... =)
FP again
Such a loveable creature... Raven4x4x 05:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Wolf spider image in depth of field articleWe're trying to clean up the DoF article so that every image clearly illustrates a concept relevant to that article. Although your wolf spider image is interesting and well executed, it's not necessarily obvious what is being shown, especially to a person not familiar with the very shallow DoF in macro photography. The image would be far more instructional if one of the individual images (perhaps the one with the best focus on one set of eyes) were included for comparison. Would you consider adding such an image? I'd be glad to handle captioning and integration with the article. Mentioning the magnification also might be helpful. JeffConrad 18:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC) Hi there I've came across the picture and found it to be way over sharpened and the colour balance was off (unless, of course, the plants are blue in real life). I've nominated it for delisting as I found it not up to today's standard. If you can fix these problems I am happy to withdraw the nomination. --antilived T | C | G 09:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC) Merry Christmas Hi Peter! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. - Darwinek 19:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
The problem is not will the photos, but with the placement of them in the article. The article is already cluttered with images. There is a link for people find your images on Commons. Thank you. Ansett 10:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC) RAW continuationI'd like you to see a good comparison too, but I think that unless you know the correct technique for shooting and processing RAW (it can be a little different to JPG) and you're shooting a scene with high dynamic range AND you pay close attention to the histogram (more on that later) then you might not make the most of RAW and conclude that it has no benefits. I don't know the exact details of how you shoot JPG so I can't tell you specifically how it could be improved, but you consistently demonstrate that you don't really understand RAW or its benefits. As you mentioned, the guys over at Fred Miranda shoot in RAW, do tweaks in PS (and I bet they use 16bit images to do the tweaks, because of the extra latitude that 16bit gives you for tweaking - if they don't, they're silly) and then save as a JPG. The important thing to note is that they shoot RAW in the first place. Obviously they do it for a reason. RAW allows far better tweaking than JPG does. It contains far finer values for intensity of RGB so if you make adjustments, you are far more able to avoid posterisation. FACT. This alone is reason to shoot RAW but there are other benefits too. When you mention that a monitor contains more information than the printer, you're missing the point. The reason for working with RAW/16bit images is NOT for better output to either a monitor or printer. It is for post production work with the highest possible quality image so that, as I mentioned above, you don't encounter posterisation among other things. Perhaps I should shoot a challenging scene in both RAW and JPG and show you what I mean. The problem is that we're talking about the benefits of each format for doing post-processing work, not simple shoot-and-display-on-the-web with no tweaking, so it isn't as simple as it sounds. Perhaps the best way to do it would be to shoot a demanding scene with messed up colour balance (yes, that does happen with JPG, the camera doesn't always get it right in AWB and the WB presets are not always right for every scene), bright highlights and deep dark shadows. I'll hand you the JPG as-is and you can attempt to 'rescue' it to try to match the output I got from the RAW after post processing it. It won't have to match my RAW output exactly, just attempt to rescue the image in a similar way. That will at least illustrate whether it is possible to do everything in JPG that it is in RAW and whether there are any practical advantages. I will try not to engineer faults in the JPG. I'll try to make it a clean, fair fight (but it is hard to do when JPG is clearly inferior for this sort of tweaking work). ;-) Are you up for the challenge? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:43, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
You're welcome. :-) | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 11:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC) Mexican Wolf 2 FP promotionMerry Christmas Fir0002! Looking over the recently promoted FP, I reckon no edit of Mexican Wolf should have been promoted. My tally is:
Edit 1 misses the 2/3 majority. Thanks for taking a look! Pstuart84 Talk 19:25, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Featured picture
 Fir0002, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Wolf spider focus bracket series02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 18, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-18. howcheng {chat} 17:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 Hi Fir, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Red capsicum and cross section.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 22, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-22. howcheng {chat} 17:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 Hola! Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Rock dove - natures pics.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 22, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-22. howcheng {chat} 16:29, 26 March 2007 (UTC) warningsHi. Yes, warnings are usually subst'ed, but other than that it looked fine (I did that for you). If you add {{subst:test4-n|Articlename}}, you can add the article's name to the warning. For example, {{subst:test4-n|User talk:Joyous!}} would produce  This is your last warning. All of the bracket business you asked about is part of getting the article's name in the correct spot in the template. If you don't add the article name, then the brackets just sit there twiddling their thumbs. Welcome to adminship, by the way. I'll be happy to help if you have any other questions. Joyous! | Talk 05:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC) Voting consistencyHello Fir, since you had questions about the consistency of my voting at FPC (which is perfectly acceptable) I have to return that favour today. How comes you support
Commons image needs deletingAs per Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Notre dame basillica delist, the image commons:Image:Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica Jan 2006.jpg is ready for deletion. I'm not a commons admin but I see you are, so I guess you can do what needs to be done... Raven4x4x 11:41, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
orb weaverhi, i just found your (as usual, top quality) pics of orb weavers while sorting the spider pictures. could you provide some additional information about this animal, so i could try to determine it? eg, size, where exactly the picture was taken, time of year (May?) many thanks :) i suppose these two are the same: could you add the Category:Unknown spiders to spider pics that are not determined to species level? i just found some while browsing your history. if they are determined to species level, they are much more useful for the spider pages (and also maybe link different versions of the same spider to each other). btw, i almost had to cry when i saw the all-in-focus picture of the wolf spider (because that's exactly the kind of pictures i'd like to do, but i can't afford a better camera). --Sarefo 13:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Aloha! As a courtesy, I thought I'd notify you that the Featured Picture status of Image:American buffalo proof vertical edit.jpg, which you created a/or contributed to, is currently being reconsidered. Feel free to weigh in at the discussion here, or correct any faults listed therein. --293.xx.xxx.xx 09:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC) PanoramasHello, Fir0002! I am using two panoramas you took on my user page. If you would like that I'd not use them, please notify me. Thanks and happy editing! —sd31415 (sign here) 13:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply! Happy editing and hope you take more great photographs for Wikipedia! —sd31415 (sign here) 00:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC) Barnstars for you!I seriously almost started to drool from admiring your user page. My page looks like road kill compared to your page. For the record, I award you with infinite "Excellent User Page Award". Oh, and have a "Lots of Barnstars Award" for the heck of it. =D Jumping cheeseCont@ct 13:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
PanoramasHey Fir. I am in awe of your panoramas and am wondering what your trick is to patching the images together. Do you use a program to do it (which one)? Are there any specific methods you use to actually take them? I don't have an SLR-type camera like yours, so I am unable to lock an exposure, etc. I figured I'd ask you your techniques because your pictures come out so well! Thanks. → JARED (t) 21:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC) Featured Picture
Congrats again. Raven4x4x 05:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)  Hola again (that's the second one today), Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Whistling duck flight02 - natures pics-edit1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 25, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-25. howcheng {chat} 16:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC) You're WelcomeWell, I guess now you have a new row. :-) | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 12:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC) re: ffIE7 certainly wasn't a hassle to install for me, just clicked the next button a few times and I was away. And imitating Firefox's cool ideas? Surely Firefox was imitating Opera for tabbed browsing. And if, for some unknown reason, lightning did hit my house, i think losing my web pages that i was browsing would be the very least of my worries. As for RAM, i have photoshop up pretty much 24/7 and a game (it's just how i work) so every mb of ram counts. You mention 6 extensions earlier, so add that onto Firefox usuing more than IE already, the bulky add on themes and extensions and that all adds up. My downloads work fine anyway, I've used getright and some other download acceleration program and they do speed up my d/ls, after taking your advice and installing the extension into firefox (that was after having to restart after FF freezing up) I noticed little tp no difference. So you can run incompatible sites? Why not just use IE to browse with, then you have no sites like that, what a solution! And it's not a security gain, I've seen plenty of pro FF sites say it is, but many other sites conclude differently. I'm not trying to claim IE is BETTER than FF, it is however at least equal. The reason you didn't think I'd used it is because FF isn't as wonderful as every user thinks. It is just another browser that some people like and most people don't. I have friends who use firefox merely because 'everybody else is'. And surely FF is trying to get away from that 'blatent' IE mentality? I truthfully believe FF is just about equal to IE, and have done for a while, but I use IE purely because every single FF user, and I'm afraid to say even you, sir, has their head about 3 miles up their own backsides. I really don't care for boasters, and that's the users are. They're all biased to FF way beyond belief, so telling them IE is good gives them a conory. See www.spreadinternetexplorer.com/Neverender 899 14:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC) FiresFires again? Have I missed something? (on the news) Good luck, stay safe. ViridaeTalk 06:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Image DeletionPlease put more information on the image description page about why the image is on Wikipedia if you don't want them inadvertantly deleted again. The files right now are not linked to anything and say "temp for discussion." I'd delete them again if I did not know better. You could also put the images on the Commons. They might be safer there as I do not have Admin rights on the Commons :-) -Regards Nv8200p talk 13:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:Wombat-in-snow.jpgThanks for uploading Image:Wombat-in-snow.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 15:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eleassar my talk 15:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC) BushfiresSwifts Creek was mentioned on ABC news either last night or the night before - I hope things are alright! Leon 02:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 It was an absolute scorcher yesterday - probably around 45 degrees with a strong wind behind it. Morning it was beautiful skies, and then almost like a nuclear bomb this big plume of white smoke comes up (looked like a really violent cumulus) but it was smoke. Soon there was a massive cloud with amazing coloration behind our hill. Fortunately you couldn't see any flames but still was a frightening day. These photos were taken before the change came in, which although it sent the temperature rocketing down to about 25 it brought strongs winds blowing towards us! Anyway thats all over and it's pretty cool today without any wind, so see how we go. I'll post more photos if I get more time today --Fir0002 22:18, 11 January 2007 (UTC) 
Featured picture promotion!
 Oy! Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Wild shortbeak echidna.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 3, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-03. howcheng {chat} 16:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
And again!! Raven4x4x 08:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)  Oy again! Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Austrolestes cingulatus03.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 4, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-04. howcheng {chat} 16:40, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 Oy³! Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Meat eater ant qeen excavating hole.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 7, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-07. Also, you'll be interested to know I created a meat ant article from the link you gave me. Regards, howcheng {chat} 18:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 Yo! (to be different this time) Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Pardalotus with nesting material.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 9, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-09. When I first saw it, I thought it was an Mdf photo, so I was surprised to find it was yours. I suppose that's high praise. :) howcheng {chat} 18:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC) FP peer reviewI don't really want to wait 3 weeks for an answer, so as the big man on FPC can you give me your comments at Wikipedia:Picture_peer_review/Starlifter_Despeckle? --frothT 10:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC) POTD notification Image:Peacock portrait - melbourne zoo.jpgThat is not a India Blue Peafowl Pavo cristatus. It clearly resembles a hybrid of it with the Green Peafowl. Frankyboy5 02:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Just to let you know that your photo Image:Dragonfly compound eyes02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 11, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-02-11. howcheng {chat} 20:16, 15 January 2007 (UTC) Happy Wikipedia Day!  On January 15, 2007, Wikipedia turned six-years-old. According to statistics, Wikipedia has around 1,500,000 articles and Wikipedians have made 104,000,000 edits. The millionth article was Jordanhill railway station, created on March 2, 2006. Wikipedia has moved from an Alexa rank of 20 to a rank of 12 having already briefly visited rank 8 (current rank). Happy editing! Your workIf I may say so... wow. You've got some amazing stuff. Hell, it's all amazing. Rawling 00:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
CongratsCongrats on having the POTM. It is a really nice picture. Keep on uploading pictures like that. Have a nice week and god bless you and everyone you know. --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 12:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)  Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!
Fires?Hey dude, heard there was a bushfire in Swifts Creek. Hope everything is ok? Stevage 13:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Another FP
Congrats again. Raven4x4x 04:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)  Hi Fir, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Hoverfly07.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 15, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-15. howcheng {chat} 21:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC) WOW!I must say that I am impressed with all these featured pictures that you shot. You are an artist! Another thing, your user page is extraordinary. --196.202.53.248 00:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes the bring stock photography is quite impressive THANKS FOR IMAGERY! !!!! As if you don't have enough already...
Raven4x4x 07:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)  Hi Fir, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Milk thistle flowerhead.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 16, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-16. howcheng {chat} 22:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Cactus image added to FlowerI moved your image from Flower to Cactus because I had earlier requested an image of this nature for the Cactus article, and because I did not think it showed a flower as well as parts of a flower (the stamens and stigma). Flowers are so diverse, that the page, imo, should include as much of this diversity as possible, without focusing on a particular area of the diversity (the bee close-up should go, too). If you have another image that is not a close-up of part of a flower, but rather a large image of a flower, from a family not covered for that particular area of the page, please add it. Thanks. KP Botany 00:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC) FPC editsHey Fir, hope everything's OK with you and the fires are keeping away. Just thought I'd mention that I added another edit to the Trench Warfare nomination based on the original upload to the Commons. I've quite often noticed that Commons images have been edited (sometimes not all that well) and replaced since they were first uploaded, so I always check the image's history to avoid making one edit on top of another. In this case, the Commons version was originally uploaded at 1200x1607 and then overwritten by an edit which downsampled it to 800x1071, lost a lot of the midtone detail through lightening and introduced JPEG artifacts. I expect you're already aware of this sort of thing but hopefully a friendly reminder won't hurt. Keep up the good work, and congrats on your pretty awesome run of FPs over the last couple of weeks! --YFB ¿ 15:39, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Comet photosHey Fir, have you had the chance to take any photos of the comet yet? The Age has an excellent shot] of it but I suspect given the right skyward conditions, anyone with a good camera/lens combo could match it. Would be good to see a similar photo on Wikipedia. The ones already on wikipedia aren't bad either though. I'm jealous of you southern hemispherites at the moment.. Its barely pushing above zero celcius here in London today. How close did the bushfires get to Swifts Creek by the way? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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