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Voting templates

Hi. Since you seem like a nice guy, take great photos and obviously know how to do it, I had to ask you this question, from one n00b to a 1337 - How do you make (or rather insert) the little voting graphics, like yours in ?

Great photos

Great pictures mate. I posted a few of them (with attribution) in Australian Hunting Net forum, hope you don't mind. Everyone was impressed!

Aurora Australis

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

-- Enochlau 06:39, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Gallery

User:PiccoloNamek/Gallery

It isn't much, but I'm trying to add to it.

My real portfolio is here:

PiccoloNamek 09:47, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Chestnuts.jpg is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. You can check the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/September 15, 2005. -- Solipsist 06:06, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

And Image:Pomegranate03 edit.jpg is up on the 18th. As this will be a weekend, it should also be on the MainPage too. The associated caption is at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/September 18, 2005. -- Solipsist 06:49, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

You wait for a Pic of the day for ages, then three come along at once. A golden oldy this time; your Emperor Gum Moth is due for a reappearance on the 19th Sep. Oddly there doesn't appear to have been much of a caption last time. Perhaps most of the article was written later. In any case a freshly minted caption can be checked and improved at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/September 19, 2005.

And you didn't tell me that you had managed to get a photo of some insect eggs. I've now updated the egg (biology) page to include it, so that article is a little less POV now. Actually the Emperor Gum Moth article is now rather well illustrated with all aspects of the moth's life cycle. Nice job. -- Solipsist 07:22, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Next one up is Image:MotoX racing03 edit.jpg next Tuesday, with the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/September 27, 2005. I've added it to Motocross as that seemed a more appropriate illustration than at motorcycle. -- Solipsist 07:54, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikimania

Hi Fir,

In case you haven't seen it, you might be interested in this discussion on Commons. -- Solipsist 07:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

No I wasn't aware of the discussion, so thanx for pointing it out. --Fir0002 07:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

On a completely different issue, I know this may sound dumb, but I've noticed people refering to wikipedia chat on irc. What is that? I use ICQ but am not familiar with IRC channels. --Fir0002 07:26, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't help you with that one. I know the channels exist, but I don't use them. The starting point would seem to be Misplaced Pages:IRC channels.

There are also several mailing lists, with pointers at Misplaced Pages:Mailing lists. -- Solipsist 08:02, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Pics

Hi, just wanted to say that I am always astounded by your talent in photography; I've actually mentioned you on my user page; I thought I was an alright photographer until I saw your work. It is always spectacular. Keep up the good work! Sputnikcccp 11:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Australian cart.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on the 2nd October. As usual, you can check and improve the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/October 2, 2005. -- Solipsist 08:32, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Promoted pic: Lavender

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Single lavendar flower02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations on a unanimous verdict :-) ~ Veledan • Talk 16:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Question

You have experience in this area, so I'm asking you. :)

Do you think this picture would be a viable featured picture:

Note, that I am not asking how you would vote, but rather if you think that this picture would have a generally favorable response if listed. The only problem I can personally see is a small amount of blur a full-size, but it doesn't appear too distracting, IMO. :) PiccoloNamek 03:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Edit: Well, I went ahead and added it anyway. Here's hoping for the best. Feel free to remove this. Sorry to bother you.

PiccoloNamek 09:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Reply

I put up a resampled version on the photo's candidate page. I think that solved the blur problem fairly well. My camera just isn't good enough to use the images without reducing the size by half first.PiccoloNamek 12:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Misty morning02.jpg is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow — the caption can be edited at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/October 6, 2005.

I noticed a small irony in that the next FP in the line is Prokudin-Gorskii's Black Sea sunset, where the principle interest is that he was managing such good colour photography in 1915. There is some similarity with the composition of Misty Morning, but now a lot of the attraction is in the near monochrome tonal palette. I guess that's progress over 90 years ;-) -- Solipsist 07:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

RfA vote

Fir, I wanted to drop you a line to ask if you'd be interested in voting on my admin candidacy. I've seen you a lot in voting on FP's and thought you might have a somewhat good or positive idea of me and what kind of work I do. I'm kind of having a personal tiff with a certain user right now and would appreciate your vote if you feel i'm qualified enough. I also answered the usual questions at the bottom of my nomination form you can read if interested. Just thoguht I'd see if you'd help me out with it. Thanks and I'l lsee you around the FP's I'm sure. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 23:30, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Melbourne Photo

Hi Fir!

Just a quick note to say that your picture of the Melbourne skyline at night is fantastic! It shows what a nice city Mebourne is. (of course, being a Melburnian myself!) Keep up the photography!!

Skyscraper297 08:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Image_sleuthing#Image:FierceSnake_Olive.jpg

Would you be able to shoot a free replacement image of this snake? It would significantly add to a FA candidate. - Mgm| 08:15, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Support template

Thanks for the info. Halibutt 05:28, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

They deleted it again :( What do you think about creating a redirect? I can undelete them but I don't want to start a delete war. Redirect could be more useful... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:50, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Fir

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Large bonfire.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Pic of the Day on Monday. You can make any changes to the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/October 24, 2005. -- Solipsist 22:19, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Virtual Tour sister project

I've been thinking about proposing a sister project called something like "Wikitour" that would lend itself directly to Misplaced Pages. While Commons hosts individual images of places/things that have articles on Misplaced Pages, Wikitour would host "virtual tours" of these places/things.

The basic idea is as follows: a user submits numerous photos of a notable place, which are organized into pages/subpages to create a navigable environment similar to that in Myst, Riven, or the graphical Zork games; the navigation system would be on Wikitour, while the files themselves would be on Commons, with a link in the respective article on WP; examples include castles, museums, caverns, mountains, college campuses (!!!), typical mosques or churches, archaeological sites, etc. Basically, any topic that has an article on Misplaced Pages has the possibility of its own entry in Wikitour. Users could also submit photos of an object from various angles/distances, rather than a place. For art galleries, this could instead consist of previously uploaded images of paintings/sculptures, which are organized into a single page, representing the contents of a specific art gallery.

As you are the premier photographer on Misplaced Pages, I wanted to gauge your interest in this, and know whether or not you would help submit this proposal to meta:Proposals for new projects, either by working directly on it or by submitting an example tour of some place around you that already has an article on Misplaced Pages, or at least has the potential to have an article. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-21 18:47

Please see the Wikitour proposal page and leave your impressions/suggestions on the talk page. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-21 19:50

I'm thinking that I should have probably stuck to my original scope of this simply being a Misplaced Pages WikiProject, rather than a complete sister project. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-23 02:39

Piotrus

Yep, your mum was right. Piotruś (note the Polish letter 'ś') is a diminutive of Piotr, which is Polish for Peter. But FYI my nickname is not a diminuative but a latinization - adding the latin ending -us to my name (as a tribute to one of my favourite poems, Powrót Prokonsula by Zbigniew Herbert. Can you read Polish? If so, you can find this short poem linked on his wiki page. I am not a fan of poetry, but some of Herbert's pieces are awesome. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

) I found an English version of it here. Raport z Oblężonego Miasta (Report from the Besieged City) is another one of my favourites. And Czterej Pancerni i Pies are great :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 02:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Seagull on sale pier.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on Thursday. As usual, you can review and improve the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/October 27, 2005. -- Solipsist 20:19, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

And of course Image:Bee mid air.jpg is up for Pic of the Day on Sunday. As this is a weekend it should also appear on the Main Page. You can check and improve the caption at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/October 30, 2005. However, at the moment I'm not too happy with the caption as it is a bit too general. If I get a chance I might expand the bee article to discuss the aerodynamics of bee fligh — when I was at college, I recall hearing the adage that "aerodynamically, bees can't fly" and it seems to be one of those ideas that persists despite being completely untrue. There is a pretty good summary of the problem on Straight Dope. -- Solipsist 08:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

request for cc-by-sa licensing

Hi,

The picture of the bee is fantastic -- wow! I have a physics textbook at http://www.lightandmatter.com that is under the creative commons cc-by-sa license rather than the GFDL. The two licenses are similar in spirit (viral copyleft licenses), but differ in details. I was wondering if you'd be willing to offer the picture to me under cc-by-sa for use in the book. I would of course credit you properly in the photo credits (as required by the license). Currently, I have my own (not very good) photo of a butterfly as the chapter opener image for ch. 1 of the Newtonian Physics book, and I'd love to be able to replace it with your much nicer image. TIA for considering my request. --Bcrowell 20:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...actually, now that I think of it, maybe I should just offer my book under a dual license, CC or GFDL at the user's option. I think that would deal with the legal issue. BTW, I showed your photo collection to my wife, who has written a copylefted French textbook, http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/, and her immediate reaction was also "ooh ooh, can I use some of those in my book!" :-) --Bcrowell 21:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

(from my talk page): "Hi! I'm thrilled to hear that you'd like to use my photos for a publication, and I'm more than happy to let you use it. What licensing do you want to use?" That's great! My books are under by-sa version 1.0. Is that OK? Thanks for making these wonderful photos available!--Bcrowell 03:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Commons adminship

I've requested adminship on Commons. Are you an admin there? (if not, you should be :)) — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-31 13:40

I also noticed you have some messages for you on your talk page on Commons. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-31 13:43

Uploaded picture size

Hi Fir0002 - Brookie here; when you have a say an 8m pixel digital picture to upload - as mine are with my new camera, is there a way to limit the upload size ? On one of my recent uploads I had a size warning message flash up which I overode as I didn't know how to limit the file size. Hope you can help. :) Brookie: A collector of little round things 08:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Featured picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Sheep eating grass edit02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

I hereby declare that you take very good photos. Raven4x4x 07:17, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the Day

Hi Fir002,

This time it is Image:Redback frontal view.jpg that is up for a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 14th Nov. I felt a need to rework the caption, so you can check the changes at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/November 14, 2005.

They always seem to come in clusters. Next up is Image:Aurora australis panorama.jpg for tomorrow. The caption can be checked at Misplaced Pages:Picture of the day/November 15, 2005. And I think you've got a pine cone coming up next weekend, although I haven't written up the caption yet. -- Solipsist 15:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Canon EOS 20D

Hey. I've been in the market for a new camera for quite some time now, and I eventually settled on the Canon EOS 20D. It seems to be a good camera that takes clear, sharp pictures, and would be a good starting place for me to begin building my EOS lens collection. (My ultimate goal is to get the 180mm telephoto macro lens, only $1200 U.S.!) I rememberd that you have an EOS 20D, so I wanted to ask you, how is it? How does it handle? Is it fast? Are there any nagging problems? Is the sensor crop factor a problem? How is the depth of field control? That is very important to me. The reason I ask is because the smaller APS sized sensor will naturally have less DOF than a larger sensor. Anything I should know about before I purchase this camera? Any tips or advice are greatly appericiated!PiccoloNamek 05:00, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt

I think you may be interested in this nomination, especially as parts of it seem to be related to the voting templates issue.. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:09, 16 November 2005 (UTC)