User talk:Fir0002/Archive 5

Featured picture promotion!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Green tent spider.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! KFP (talk | contribs) 01:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Green tent spider.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 18, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-18. howcheng {chat} 06:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

POTD

POTD

Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:House sparrow04.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 23, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-02-23. howcheng {chat} 17:25, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

FP noms

If you're going to use the old format for nominations, please remember to add each nomination to the proper categories.

<noinclude>[[Category:Featured picture nominations]][[Category:Featured picture nominations/{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}]]</noinclude>

Noclip 14:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Comet pic

Hey Fir, your comet picture is better than the one on the main page! Congrats! Next time the comet comes around, make sure yours is chosen instead. ;-) | AndonicO ^{Talk · Sign Here} 21:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Andonic! I'll make sure to do that! ;-) --Fir0002 11:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Plums

Hi, I love the pics of plums you took but do you have any idea what variety it was? --Bjwebb (talk) 16:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

No, sorry! except perhaps "really tasty" plums ;-) --Fir0002 23:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

photoshop help for panorama

Fir002, I have noticed that you have helped edit several peoples panorama's to make them much better and I was hoping you could do the same for me. I just uploaded Image:Real Kaui Panorama1.jpg and I was wondering if you could help photoshop it to make it better. Best regards, Remember 15:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar thanks

Thanks for the Barnstar! howcheng {chat} 16:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Another FP

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Cactus flower closeup03.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Trebor 23:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Trebor 23:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Once more,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Cactus flower closeup03.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 24, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-24. howcheng {chat} 06:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Ulysses Butterfly - melbourne zoo.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Raven4x4x 02:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 02:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi again,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Ulysses Butterfly - melbourne zoo.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 30, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-30. howcheng {chat} 20:53, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Nice work!

Hey Fir, I wanted to commend you on the direction your photo contribution have been taken lately (as far as I can judge from FP). Those are mostly great quality and high value pics. Especially going macro on insects opens up a huge field where lots of high enc high quality images for wikipedia are waiting to be shot by you. Anyway, nice work! --Dschwen(A) 21:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that Dschwen! I agree, the insect world is a vast one which contains many amazing subjects - I hope to continue uploading high quality ones, but I'm afraid the volume will probably start decreasing as I move into Year 12 --Fir0002 05:43, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Comet

Walking around my dorm, I saw a guy who had Image:Comet_P1_McNaught02_-_23-01-07.jpg as his computer wallpaper! I said that I knew you somewhat and he was impressed :-) Just thought you'd like to know --froth^T 04:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Heh, cool! Thanks for letting me know! --Fir0002 05:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Comet P1 McNaught02 - 23-01-07.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! KFP (talk | contribs) 13:10, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hola,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Comet P1 McNaught02 - 23-01-07.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 31, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-31. howcheng {chat} 21:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

1 year contributing?

By my count, you've been on here for over 2 years. What's with this "1 year contributing" story? :) Stevage 15:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Easily remedied by my leet Paint skillz. --froth^T 20:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

lol, very good Froth! I left that 1 year thing there because it was the best way to link to that history page. I intend to do another at 5 years but that's a little way off yet! --Fir0002 22:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I know Froth's banner is good and all, but why don't you just say "...for more than 1 year" instead? Keeps it factual without having to create a new one.. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way Froth, as per our FPC discussions, we strongly discourage watermarks on our uploaded images. >:-S Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Comet P1 McNaught02 pic

What day was it taken on, please? Bob -  uriel8  (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

January 23rd, 2007 --Fir0002 22:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Fark.com photoshop contest

FYI, your hot metalwork photo was used on FARK.com in a photoshop contest. [1] - Ravedave ^{(Adopt a State)} 23:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

• Hahaha, excellent spotting there Ravedave.. Some particularly creative PS'ing there too. Let me know if you spot any of my images in random locations. Apparently one of mine will be in the papers here in London on Monday.. Will be interesting to see what shows up. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 23:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Your License

Hey,

First of all, I'd like to say that I really like your pictures. I wanted you to know that I think the following message doesn't hold much ground as since the pictures are released under the GFDL, they don't really have to ask you or negotiate with you because the pictures are free for commercial as well as non-commercial use.

"If you are a (commercial) publisher and you want me to write you an email or paper mail giving you an authorization to use my works in your products or a license with the terms of your choice, please email me to negotiate terms."

Yonatan (contribs/talk) 15:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Not quite true. Publishers could only reuse them in accordance with the GFDL, which means they in turn have to make the image (and its derivations) available to the public. Stevage 22:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I see that under the GFDL they'd have to print the whole license along with the picture and I doubt they'd do that. Anyway, no harm done. Yonatan (contribs/talk) 22:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the GFDL is pretty stupid anyway. Wikipedia doesn't come close to complying with it, strangely enough. Stevage 04:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. I've been a bit naive and nonchalant for a while here, but the more I think about/investigate licencing on Wikipedia, the more I realise how silly it is. GFDL doesn't seem to apply particularly well to images at all in the first place, and the requirement to use a CC Commercial licence just plain sucks. I don't see any reason why, except that Wikipedia secretly plans to launch a commercial service and profit from our donated hard work at a later date. ;-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:48, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[2] [3] you're not the first. Btw fully agree with you Diliff and support your stance on the Buckingham Palace photo. --Fir0002 05:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

If I may chime in. I may be wrong here, but this was the explanation I was given. If Wikipedia goes belly up, the point of non-commericial licences is to allow other companies to publish the encyclopaedia. If not, it will be lost forever, as the photos and text could only ever be published by a non-profit company. --liquidGhoul 10:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Cairns Birdwing

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Cairns birdwing - melbourne zoo.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! KFP (talk | contribs) 22:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Another day, another POTD notice.

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Cairns birdwing - melbourne zoo.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 3, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-03. howcheng {chat} 23:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Western honey bee

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Honeybee landing on milkthistle02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! KFP (talk | contribs) 22:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Honeybee landing on milkthistle02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 7, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-07. howcheng {chat} 23:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Collage_POV_scene.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Collage_POV_scene.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. MECU≈talk 16:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Subject/headline:

Hi there. I would like to comment on a few things. 1. What's with your username? 2. You don't think it's a little conceited to nominate nearly every single photo you upload as a featured picture? I would think it would be more flattering for someone to nominate something I uploaded than to nominate it myself (I'm sure you'll get some examples of this for you, but I have yet to see any). Your e-penis must be like three miles long. 3. Nearly all the photos of yours I have seen are fantastic, keep up the good work. --Indolences 01:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

In Fir0002's defence, I would also nominate every picture I uploaded as an FP if they were as good as his. Also, since many of his pictures are worthy of being nominated, he's just saving everyone else a lot of work by nominating them for us ;) Stevage 13:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

This user is pushing his photos towards the community, whilst the community should be pulling the photos towards itself. I totally agree with you that the photographs taken by this user are nearly all breathtaking, but I can't nominate myself for the Nobel prize, no matter how much I deserve it. The Internet is serious business. --Indolences 21:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Heh. I see it like a guy wandering around selling donuts. Except, instead of selling them, he's giving them away. As long as we keep patting his head, we keep getting free donuts. It costs us nothing, we get awesome photos, fir0002 gets some recognition and improves his skills, there's really no downside here. Stevage 22:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I really don't have time for this junk --Fir0002 05:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the insight, and I'm sorry to hear that I made you feel sad (and you got even by insulting my photography skills). On the other hand, I can see you being hired by National Geographic within the next five years. And I will just assume your username is "Photografir0002". Be seeing you! --Indolences 05:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

FPC comment please

G'day, would I be able to have your comments on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Scenic railway? Stevage 13:21, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

One question regarding your FP noms

I checked out several of your current FP noms, and none of the ones I looked at had the <!-- additional votes go above this line --> included. Is there any reason why you haven't been including this line? Raven4x4x 01:03, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh if you look back far enough you'll notice I never did - back in the old days they never used it and I never got into the habit. I can do that if it makes any difference for you - personally I don't see it doing much --Fir0002 05:16, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mole cricket02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Raven4x4x 02:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

And this as well.... Raven4x4x 02:27, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

On the Frog nomination, a straight count of the votes gives 7:4, which isn't quite 2/3. If you count weak votes as half, you get 6:3, which is exactly 2/3. I don't use an exact numerical cut off myself, but I generally tend to look for a little more than a 2/3 majority after [discussion], where a few people suggested that 10:6 or 10:5 was a little close to be promoting. Of course I won't mind if you seek a second opinion, but that's my reasoning.

As for the "all comments above this link", I occasionally find comments left below that line and below the {{-}} template. This leaves an annoying gap, as seen here. I know it isn't a big deal, and people still leave comments there even with the notice, but it might help most people place comments in the right spot. Raven4x4x 09:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Mole cricket02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 13, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-13. howcheng {chat} 17:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Just amazing!

Hi, Fir. Although many users must have praised you in the past, yet I couldn't (after I have seen some of your pictures) but write this message. You are an outstanding user, a real artist! Users like you are the ones who make Wikipedia able to compete with Britannica. Thank you for your wonderful pictures. --Meno25 11:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much Meno! --Fir0002 05:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

QI Promotion

{{QICpromoted|Image:Hay bale with bird.jpg}} --Jnpet 08:08, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

About the Barnstar...and, umm...

No problem. You've definitely earned it...oh...you're an Administrator? I didn't know that until now...anyway, excellent work on those pictures. Keep it up. -- Altiris Exeunt 01:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hypolimnas bolina

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Common Eggfly02 - melbourne zoo.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thanks! KFP (talk | contribs) 20:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Common Eggfly02 - melbourne zoo.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 21, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-21. howcheng {chat} 21:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

all-focus pictures

hi,

can you give me a hint how you did the picture of the wulf spider, that was constructed from several pictures? for example, how many layers are necessary, did you focus through the spider manually or automatically, and so on. i'd like to do similar photos, but haven't found anything on the web on it. cheers --Sarefo 20:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

thx for your response :) ok, i thought there's a feature for this in recent photoshop versions that i did not know about yet ;) actually, there are at least two programs for automating what you did, called CombineZ5 and Helicon Focus. [4] I'll try out both of these when i get my new camera (with manual focus) next week. good luck with your studies :) --Sarefo 20:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU!! Wow that's really made my day. I spent about 3 hrs making this cactus focus bracket and the program did it almost perfectly in a few minutes (a few errors but they should be correctable) --Fir0002 07:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Hoverflies mating midair.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 24, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-03-24. howcheng {chat} 18:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

QI

{{QICpromoted|Image:Dawn_on_the_great_alpine_road.jpg}}--84.161.234.88 20:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Fuzzy Zoeller edit controversy

Hello, there. As you may or may not know, the Miami Herald recently revealed that professional golfer Fuzzy Zoeller has filed a lawsuit against Josef Silny & Associates, Inc. for adding false statements to his Wikipedia biography.

For data gathering purposes, an SRS of 20 administrators has been created, you being one of them. I would like you to comment on this situation and its possible implications to Wikipedia, the accused company, and the general welfare of the community in general. (To what extent will this impact Wikipedia? To what extent will this impact those who use Wikipedia often? To what extent is the company guilty? Who do you believe is at fault?) Feel free to comment however you wish. I ask that you email me your responses via my emailuser page so as to reduce bias in your responses. (Again, don't post your responses on my talk page.)

The following are articles from various news agencies that you may use to inform yourself about the situation: Miami Herald, Herald Tribune, Web Pro News, The Smoking Gun.

I thank you for taking your time to express your opinion. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at any time. _└^Jared_┘^┌_talk^┐ 18:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Fir for president (or at least pic'o'the year)

I just dropped by to tell you that you've got my vote for pic'o'the year in Commons. I really enjoy seeing your pictures, they are beautiful work, they inspire me (I enjoy also photography, see f.x. http://www.xn--kda-ula.se), well and they are also a bit of torture to watch ("Why haven't I taken pictures like that?"). Keep up the good work and Wikipedia will become an even more beautiful place. -- PER9000 16:19, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Once again,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Pelican lakes entrance02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 28, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-03-28. howcheng {chat} 18:07, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Commons Picture of the Year

Take a look on your Commons talk page. One of your images has become 3rd in the election. Congratulations! Bryan 11:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow that's terrific - thanks for letting me know! --Fir0002 07:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

fotocommunity.com

Dear Peter,
I am blown away by your featured pictures! Please allow me to invite you to the fotocommunity, one of the fastest growing foto communities on the internet, to share your pictures.
Keep up the great work!
Henning Blatt 16:34, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly Podcast - interview?

Hey there Fir, I'm a panelist on Wikipedia Weekly the weekly wikipedia podcast[5]. You may have heard of us. Anyway, we're starting a new segment where we will try and interview interesting users/projects to feature some of the different aspects of WP. I was hoping we would be able to talk to you. Maybe a 5 minute piece on who you are and why you are so dedicated to photography on WP! We record using Skype (so you would need that programme, a microphone and a a broadband connection to participate) and can prerecord the interview at pretty much any time that is convenient for you. Tell me what you think, Witty lama 09:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thus his head is successfully doubled in size. :P --Ali K 08:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Glad to see you're interested! I'm available most of the time, so whenever is convenient for you - give me a buzz. I'm "wittylama" on Skype. we can co-ordinate there. Witty lama 21:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, sorry I missed you the other day. But I'm back in town again and free in the times between 2pm-4pm and 11pm-3am (your time) every day this week. Give me a buzz to work out a time do to this! Witty lama 00:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, Yes, this week should be ok - I'm a uni student so I'm in and out all the time (and live a nocturnal life)!! Contact me on skype at "Wittylama" and we'll set up a time. Basically I'm looking at a 5 mintue thing that we can insert into the next episode when it's recorded. So, it's cool re. time. there's no hurry. contact me. Witty lama 00:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Calliphora augur whitebackground.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 12, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-12. howcheng {chat} 07:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

This picture is amazing! Richard W.M. Jones 13:12, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Love your work

Hello! Can you please talk on my user talk, and we can exchange msn's.

I am very interested in your 'artificial' lighning.

Thanks!

Panarchy

Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Mammatus_cloud_panorama.jpg

Can you respond to the various inquires on the picture? ~ trialsanderrors 03:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow! Great choice in so many ways.

User:Rkitko selected one of your images for the WikiProject Plants banner--it's gorgeous.[6] KP Botany 01:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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House Sparrow

cannot see any grounds for the change in the main image - previous one was much better quality (an FP actually))

It is extremely poor etiquette to promote your own images, if yours was superior I'm sure others will revert it. The image in the infobox is not the 'main image' on the page, it is an illustrative thumbnail of the species. Normally the male of the species has more distinctive plumage and is used to illustrate the species. The image I put in, is I think a painting, and clearly shows the features of the species at thumbnail size. Wikipedia is not your personal gallery. I shall replace the image with the superior illustration. If you still disagree, how about we discuss it on the House Sparrow talk page? --AGoon 08:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikimedia montage

Hello! I am sorry to tell you this, but I had to delete the Wikimedia logo montage you uploaded back in 2005 since there were absolutely no sources and therefore no way to prove that the images you used could be used in a derivative. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 01:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I withdraw the above comment and I wish to issue you an apology for all your troubles. I would love to buy you a drink but I don't know you nor where you live, also I'm a minor. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 01:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll ask instead. Where are the sources? 1ne 02:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well I made it, but looks like Wikimedia is too tight to allow people to use their logos, even though they expect photographers to license their images under the GFDL or other free licenses!! --Fir0002 01:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

What about the images that make up the mosaic? Are they all your images? —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 19:16, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes I took all those photos --Fir0002 02:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

It's a derivative of the Wikimedia Foundation's logo, which means you should talk to the Foundation before keeping the image. I'm sure they'd allow it. 1ne 02:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Mammatus cloud panorama.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mammatus cloud panorama.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for nominating it! KFP (talk | contribs) 19:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

...Finally. --KFP (talk | contribs) 19:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Meat eater ant feeding on honey02.jpg

Found this image being used here: http://www.allhome.biz/contactus.html. Don't know if they've contacted you for additional licensing terms or if he just swiped it and isn't complying under the terms of the GFDL, but I thought you'd want to know. howcheng {chat} 17:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. are you sure about the species identification? I Googled "meat eater ant" (which is how I found that other page) and the only pages that seem to have this term are Wikimedia pages and mirrors. The reason I ask is because I was writing the POTD caption for Image:Meat eater ant qeen excavating hole.jpg and was trying to find more information about it. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 17:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
originated by Pedia-I
(Explanation and Disclaimer)

♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 21:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:European wasp white bg02.jpg

I was intending to nominate this as a FP on Commons, but I think it would run into difficulties as the file size is rather small. Would you be prepared to upload a larger image? --MichaelMaggs 16:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I can understand your wish not to give away for free images that might bring you an income, but I wonder if you'd be prepared to continue uploading at at least 1000x2000 to ensure you're eligible for Commons Featured Pictures? I would have thought that having lots of FPs in your portfolio could only help in advertising your work, particularly since it's good enough to make the top few in the POTY competition. Image sizes of 1600x1066, 512Mb, as with Image:Baby goats jan 2007.jpg is I fear going to be too small to get past most FP reviewers, as there aren't good 'mitigating reasons'. I do hope you'll reconsider, as the 2007 POTY competition won't be as good without your macro shots in it ! --MichaelMaggs 13:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

globemaster, mantis, podcast

Hey there!

1) What do you think of this pic Image:C17virginia.jpg. It's getting mixed reviews at Commons:FP because of noise and the blob halfway up the tail of the lead plane. Do you think you could clean it up and for possible FP candidacy?

2) That's an interesting shot of the Praying Mantis' head you've got at FPC - but why didn't you nominate the full body shot you've got at your user-page instead. It's a much better representation of a Mantis! Why don't you swap nominations?

3) Are you still up for a little chat on the podcast? I didn't see you during the week that you said you were free. Are you still around?

Cheers, Witty lama 16:31, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Eastern banjo frog white bg.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Eastern banjo frog white bg.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for nominating it! KFP (talk | contribs) 12:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Common jassid nymph and ant02.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Common jassid nymph and ant02.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for nominating it! KFP (talk | contribs) 15:57, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:European wasp white bg.jpg

Hi Fir0002, you should propose this picture in features pictures category, I never saw a so beautiful pic of a wasp. Thanks for your great images. Ba'Gamnan 18:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Dusky Woodswallow

There's a new article about the Dusky Woodswallow coming up for DYK which is lacking a photo. According to [7] these guys are common in your area. Even if you can't get one in the next day or two, maybe you could snap something for the article? Regards, howcheng {chat} 23:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Clerid beetle04.jpg

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Interested in hosting a bot?

Since you're an admin on both Wikipedia and Commons, I wonder if you might be interested in hosting a MainPage image protection bot. As I see it, the bot would only need to put mprotected on MainPage images and then set a 24 hour protection at Commons. I'm not a programming person, so I couldn't do this myself, but I believe that this is something that could be done with relative ease. What do you think? Would you be interested in hosting a bot if we could get someone to write it? Should we put up something at Wikipedia:Bot requests? Thanks.--Pharos 07:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Um I guess I could do it, but I have no idea how and I really have very little time these days so I don't think I'll be learning it. If it's just a simple process you want me to do, no problem just give me the details. --Fir0002 08:50, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Young grasshopper on grass stalk02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 21, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-05-21. howcheng {chat} 22:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly interview published

Hey there! The interview we did the other day has now been published within episode 18.

You can access the show at [8] Your interview starts at timeindex 40:10.

Unfortunately your sound quality is not the best, but it's perfectly understandable. Catch you later and I'll see you round the wiki!

Witty Lama 16:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey Fir, just listened to your interview - loved the bit about "finding out what the heck you've taken a picture of" :-) Hope Yr12 is going OK, see you around. --YFB ¿ 17:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Wolf spider attack position.jpg

This image as at Featured picture delisting nominations. Do you happen to have a high resolution image to answer to the objections? - Mgm|^(talk) 12:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Large brown mantid close up nohair.jpg

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Image:European wasp white bg.jpg

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FP delist debate

You might want to have a look at this: Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Criteria_For_Delisting and see if you want to wiegh in.

Witty Lama 18:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Passer domesticus photo

I recently used a link to your photo on the Sonoran Desert Naturalist:
[House_Sparrow]
Often thought of as a 'trash bird', your photo does the species justice illustrating just how pretty they can be through the well-focused eye.
Mike

Keep your chin up

FPC has become very negatively charged lately and I've noticed your images have been a target of irrational and spiteful opposition, but try not to let it get to you. While we've both had our disagreements over edits and criteria in the past, I and a lot of others do still appreciate your contributions and I'll do my best to defend you against things I find wrong. Just wanted to let you know. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Seconded, That Vaelta guy was a prick anyway. -Fcb981 05:32, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks guys I truly appreciate your support! --Fir0002 08:11, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Studio photography

Hey, just wondering, with your studio photography-like shots (e.g. the tomato photo currently on FPC), how do you get such a perfectly white background? Is it done in photoshop, or do you use a really, really white table? Thanks. enochlau (talk) 02:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Nothing special, I really want to get an umbrella flash at some point, but currently just use a white piece of photographic low gloss paper (not satin, or matte, just low level glossing) --Fir0002 09:58, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi there

I found your lovely pics when I went to upload one of a quince flower and saw a) you were already there and b) yours was miles better anyway. I've checked out your gallery and I think your images are superb. Well done you. Now, I have a request (and that wasn't why I was being so flattering there ...!). I've just posted a question at the Uploading Images talk page, but when I looked at the history it's been a week since anyone posted anything there, so I'm not sure how soon (if ever) I'll get a response. So I thought I'd ask you instead, as you clearly know what's what. Here's what I posted:

• Earlier today I uploaded a pic I took, Darmera_peltata.JPG, (on the Darmera page) but I've just realised that the image is the wrong way round - the stem of the flower is going off at 90 degrees to the right, rather than vertically down to the bottom of the frame. My photographic skills are strictly limited to 'point' and 'click', and I know nothing about how to manipulate/crop/rotate images - could some kind and knowledgable soul here fiddle with the image so that the flower stem is the right way round?

So do you think you could help me, kind Peter? Jasper33 21:25, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment, but looks like I've come too late for the pic - Thegreenj has done it for you! Sorry bout that! --Fir0002 09:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - should have said this earlier - thanks for going to do it even if you didn't get to do it! Jasper33 11:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Justice prevails... ;-)

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Bright red tomato and cross section02.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Bright red tomato and cross section02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 27, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-06-27. howcheng {chat} 17:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

FPC/GA

Hello, I have decided that you and other users were right about considering waiting for a few weeks (even months) before beginning to get involved with GA and featured picture candidate closing, I took your advice the wrong way, I'm sory for any trouble or negative feelings caused by this, happy editing! The Sunshine Man 11:29, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

No problemo, glad you decided to keep with Wiki and I'm sure you'll become invaluable on FPC once you've got your hand in! --Fir0002 09:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Low creek.jpg

Hi, I'd like to use Image:Low creek.jpg in the Hebrew Wiktionary. Could you upload it to commons? Great picture, by the way :) Thanks! Scarlight 06:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Attention!

Hello Fir0002!

I would just like to say that I have nominated your image Image:Punctate Flower Chafer.jpg

This picture...

to become a Featured Picture. If you oppose this, please advise me...

Have a nice Morning, Afternoon, Evening or Good Night,

Booksworm Talk to me! 20:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

May is Fir0002 month

Did you know that you have eleven photos this month selected for POTD? That must be a record! howcheng {chat} 06:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Heh, awesome! Yeah it must be Fir0002 month!! --Fir0002 22:59, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Water drop

How did you take Image:Water droplet blue bg05.jpg? Did you use a photogate for the timing? --MichaelMaggs 16:06, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes I took it, I wish I had a photogate, for those photos I just relied on my reflexes :-) --Fir0002 23:00, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Dawn over swifts creek panorama edit.jpg

Hello Fir, I am currently making some French translations of the captions of the featured pictures. This panorama is doubtlessly stunning, but the caption is a bit short - especially for a featured picture. So where is Swift Creek? I suppose it's in Australia but Australia is a bit large... And what is it? the creek at the bottom of this valley or the small town? It is especially important to be more precise on this in new-world places with english, spanish or French based descriptive names like "Swifts creek" or "Taylor hill", etc., since there are Thouthand of them dispached on three continents at least... The date the picture was taken can also be interesting. Berru 14:52, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Punctate Flower Chafer.jpg

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Wow

I'd like to be another of the people who congratulate you on your awesome photos! They're truly very good... it's pretty cool to see photos of places that I go to a lot as well! Keep up the fantastic work, and good luck in year 12... CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 07:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi CattleGirl,
Thanks for that, I'm really glad you like them! Where abouts do you come from that you recognize my photos? I see you've got my hereford pic on your userpage... Anyway thanks for that and wishing me well in Year 12 - exams in two weeks and I'm a little stressed to be honest! --Fir0002 11:41, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome- they really are good! I'm Melbourne based, but hang around the Metung/Lakes Entrance area whenever I can! The Hereford picture is good too (I just spent a week hanging around with Hereford and Charolais bulls, so I thought it was fitting when an IP user added it to my talk page!)

You're doing well, to be editing wiki and studying! :) Hope your exams go well- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 22:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Fir0002 talkpage archive 08.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Picture of the Day

Congratulation's! As soon as I saw it I recognized it as one of yours. Beautiful work mate, keep it up. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 07:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Beautiful picture! And congrats on such a well-deserved PotD! — Feezo (Talk) 12:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Large brown mantid07.jpg

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Image licensing

Thanks for the reminder, I really should get round to sorting something out. I'm in the same boat as you re commercial use. I just looked at the template you use and that's basically what I was trying to say ("email me to negotiate terms") – I also notice you only use the GFDL 1.2 (no CC license). What's the thinking behind that?
mikaul^talk 08:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Fir, that's kind of what I thought. I was looking at GFDL templates to standardise the way I license things and wondering how you got yourself a personalised version..? Can you just copy/paste the existing code and add your own bits on the end? I've got a fair few things ready to upload but I want something in place before I start changing stuff. I've also got half an eye on Diliff's news.. mikaul^talk 12:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

ps hope the exams weren't too much of a pain :)

Location of reflected sunset image

Where did you take this picture? (Image:Reflected_sunset.jpg) Gippsland? It's my desktop pic and someday someone will ask me! Thanks in advance Donama 02:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Swifts_creek_township_and_surrounding_hills.jpg

Hey Fir! Could you please review the Geocoding info I applied to this image. It involves some guesswork, but from the satellite pics it looks like you took it from somewhere above Flagstaff-Track. --Dschwen 12:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Compliments

Hi! Just wanted to compliment you on your userpage and the cool graphics you made. I got here by checking if there were any other pages using the Dawn over swifts creek panorama image (I have it on my userpage too). Seems we both have good taste for panoramic images, apparently . Did you make a list of panoramas for use on your userpage somewhere? I'm always trying to find nice new panorama images for my userpages. I have a few listed here , maybe there's some you can use too. See you around. Freestyle 16:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Lol, wow. I see now you are also the author! Great work! Freestyle 17:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey, nice communicative skills! I always like people who don't answer at all. I supposed you were just stunned with silence by my friendly compliments. Hope you're photos remain better than your communicative skills. Bye . Freestyle 22:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Tambo Valley Races for Textbook

Hi. My name is Noah Berlatsky. I work at the American School, a high school that offers courses through the mail (www.americanschoolofcorr.com). We are developing an Algebra course at the moment, and I'd like to include your picture of the Tambo Valley Racers [9] in our study materials. The picture is licensed under the GNU, so I need to credit you — but to do that I need your name. Could you let me know what it is so I can properly credit you? You can email me at noahberlatsky at hotmail.com -- or leave a message on my talk page, whichever works best for you. Thanks! NoahB 12:03, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. Now that I've poked around a little, it looks like you may not actually be interested in having people use your images in this kind of setting. It is possible that we could pay you something (not a lot, but something.) Contact me and we can talk about it. (But I will not use the picture unless I hear from you.)NoahB 12:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool

You're so cool. This is cablemodem from IRC too. --CableModem^_^ 08:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --Fir0002 09:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

O_O!--Ali K 09:10, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

I second that "O_O!" --Michael Billington (talk) 09:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Lol, well I guess that leaves me with two options - you two are either stalking CableModem or me! :-) --Fir0002 09:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

anti-aliasing the fonts

Hi Fir - your comment about antialiasing the fonts has be intrigued. The lettering was done in Illustrator with default settings. What technique yields better results, in your experience? Ciao, Debivort 04:52, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Moth attracted by light.jpg

Thanks for uploading this image to Wikipedia. There is however another Wikimedia foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In the future, please consider creating an account and uploading media there instead. That way, all the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. Thanks again, and please continue uploading! Richard001 09:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't mind me jumping in, but this image is 3 years old, and the user already has a Commons account :D --Ali K 11:29, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

LOL! This is just too funny - sorry Richard by I'm afraid you put your foot in it! --Fir0002 22:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't *that* funny. Hey Fir, time to archive, buddy.--Ali K 07:34, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I thought it was. Yeah time to put the pretty images at the top to use I suppose... --Fir0002 07:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Jeez Fir, you really went all out with your wildlife photography in January.. One thing though, this image looks far too saturated. The lower sky/smoke has a purple tint. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Heh, thanks - I was very mindful that I probably wouldn't get another chance for photography until the first term holidays (I've got another decent batch then too) so I tried to take as many as I could. But with the fire photo, I actually reprocessed it with better saturation (I forgot to convert the Adobe color space to SRGB when I uploaded last time) because it really was like that. The sky was this unreal purple colour. No joke - if you can see a purple tint than that's good because it certainly had it during the fires!! --Fir0002 07:49, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Could just be the monitor I'm using at work though... just realised its the same image I saw earlier this year and didn't notice it being too saturated at the time. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Adding a sense of scale

I want to take the opportunity to offer some feedback of my opinion on some of your featured picture submissions. Basically, you do great work, as I'm sure you know. However, one of the inherent problems with studio photography of unknown objects is a lack of a sense of scale. For example, the spider I commented on could be the 25 mm it actually is or 1 foot long tarantula - from the picture and caption alone we cannot tell. In general, I think the technique of adding a very well-known item to the composition is a very useful trick. Some objects I have used before and have also seen in other places include: well-known coins (often American); soda cans (covering up copyrighted labels for this purpose); an actual ruler segment (10 cm length, with inches as well); an AA battery; and I am sure you can think of many more. An alternative is to place a discrete scale on the image when processing it in Photoshop. Finally, if you do not like any of these ideas, I believe the caption should include how big the object is. (The Latin Name grasshopper, about 5 cm in length...). Please let me know your thoughts. Zakolantern 23:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I think a battery or coin would ruin the FP chances, but I think Fir's (your) current version with the perspective ruler is very very neat! Is my intuition right, though, that with such a macro shot, the perspective distortion will be very little, and if 100px=1mm at the front of the object then 100px will be pretty close to 1mm at the back? If so, then a subtle little bar off to the side, as in my hadrosaur family tree image would work for all of your photo. By the way, how do you herd a deadly spider into your studio without freakin out? Debivort 06:56, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I might try that scale in the future, but I was quite pleased with the way mine came out. --Fir0002 07:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Nerves of steel! Nah it help a lot that she seemed pretty out of it. We'd been having heavy rains (and indeed flooding) and I found her floating in a puddle trying to get out with not much energy (cold day). So she was probably pretty exhausted so that help. I also had my brother close by with a plastic disposable glass ready to lower it over the spider if it got agitated.

• • I personally agree with Debivort - having the perspective be slightly off would be acceptable and might look better. However, the way you did the scale is cool too, and obviously a more difficult solution to implement in Photoshop. Zakolantern 22:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Coryphistes ruricola03.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Coryphistes ruricola.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Coryphistes ruricola.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 8, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-08. howcheng {chat} 23:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Wikimedia-montage.jpg)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Mouse spider.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Mouse spider.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 03:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Mouse spider.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 28, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-10-28. howcheng {chat} 22:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Mammatus cloud panorama.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 26, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-07-26. It's been a while since I left you a POTD notice -- I think this is first one in a month! You must be slacking. Or at least letting other people have a turn. :) howcheng {chat} 00:23, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Heh, yeah something like that! :-) --Fir0002 08:01, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Spiders in Gippsland

Just read The Age article about the spider explosion in Gippsland and remembered the FP you had recently here. Seen any of it happening lately? You've really been home to some interesting natural phenomena lately. Drought, fire, flooding... Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

lol, you forgot freezing! Yeah we have had a pretty interesting year really. No, unfortunately I haven't really seen any of that, I suspect you'd need to be more south than where I am where it really flooded (Bairnsdale etc).--Fir0002 08:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, its funny because although England is a pretty small country, the weather tends to be very localised. Apart from it absolutely teeming down on Friday afternoon (and by about 5pm it was just light fluffy clouds and sunny!). Hasn't affected me at all since. If that sort of flooding hit central London, it would be on a scale far worse than New Orleans, let me tell you.. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Yellow Rose photo nomination for FP delist

Hi, I have nominated your Yellow Rose image for delisting at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Yellow Rose. Thanks, Cacophony 00:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Holoplatys semiplanata.jpg

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POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Holoplatys semiplanata with scale02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 17, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-17. howcheng {chat} 17:17, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning strike jan 2007.jpg

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POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Lightning strike jan 2007.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 7, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-07. howcheng {chat} 23:23, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Wheat in sack.jpg

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Tomato Photo Request

I sent you the below in an e-mail yesterday. I am also posting it here: Hello there and thank you for your time and help in advance. As an inside joke, I would love to mail my girlfriend a copy of your tomato featured picture, printed on photo paper at 8x10" size. To do this, I should really use a higher resolution image than the ones you choose to upload to Wikipedia. I was hoping you would allow me to do this by e-mailing me a full-size version of that image (I have the appropriate printing gear). I agree with your reasoning for not posting higher resolution images in general by the way.

I agree to not print no more than two copies of the image, to not use it for any commercial purpose, and to not use it in any digital form or in any digital medium.

Thanks a lot, and I would be very grateful, Zachary Last Name In E-mail Zakolantern on Wikipedia Zakolantern on AIM Z@ch@ryRD AT gm@il DOT com on GChat and e-mail

P.S. - I love your camera - When I'm shooting with a dSLR, I have a first generation Canon Rebel, along with a set of lens that are nicer than the camera. I've been debating saving money for the 20D.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Musca domestica on black eyed susan.jpg

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POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Musca domestica on aloe vera.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 12, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-12. howcheng {chat} 01:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Picture of the Week

A picture that you uploaded entitled Traditional indonesian instruments.jpg has been selected as Picture of the Week on the Portal Indonesia for the Week 32, 2007. Thank you for your contribution to promote images of Indonesia.

— Indon (reply) — 09:20, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

delist request

I just added delist request for your giraffe picture. I'm also going to file delist requests for few more of your pictures, which in my opinion should have never been featured, so please keep looking every day. Regards. --Mbz1 21:04, 26 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Eastern banjo frog white bg.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 7, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-07. howcheng {chat} 23:39, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy now?

Happy now. Good luck with taking no value FP pictures.--Mbz1 03:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Happy now?

Let me spell it out. Please notice I added your name there too: I have left Wikipedia for good because of cruelty toward me by user Cacophony . I believe he could be using different IDs to drive one crazy like he did with me. Users Mgiganteus1 and fir0002 helped him in harassing me.wikipedia is not a friendly place. I asked him to stop harassing me. I told him that I was old and sick woman. Nothing helped.Be aware of user Cacophony and good luck with Wikipedia--Mbz1 04:38, 29 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Graphic Lab adversing on the 2007 Wikimania

Hello Fir0002, the french team is preparing, in English, an adversing for the Graphic Labs, using the example of the French Graphic Lab (So we don't talk too much about other graphic lab, but than can maybe be change).

English copyediting help/correction is welcome on fr:Wikipédia:Atelier graphique/English presentation of the Graphic Lab. You can also expand/write the section about "Software we use", or request to other active English wikigraphists to help us by improving sections, selecting images showing our good job, or correcting our frenglish.

--Yug (talk) 08:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Dust and scratches

I had a go at Dust and scratch removal here. If you have a chance, give it a look. J Are you green? 01:55, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Common jassid nymph and ant02.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 11, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-11. howcheng {chat} 15:45, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Swifts Creek Secondary College

Hi Peter, do you by any chance go to this school? (You are P. Firus correct?)

crepuscular rays

hi,peter,
in a few minutes i'm going to put my pictures back to the page (for the last time) with the reason why i believe they should be there. after that you could delete them again and i will not put them back in any more. thanks--Mbz1 12:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Your reasons for you to keep Crepuscular rays

Hi Mbz1,
Please ensure to provide reasons for your edits - as I mentioned the (small) article is already saturated with images, I retained two of your better ones but the others were redundant. Wikipedia is not a gallery, that's what the commons is for --Fir0002 08:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reasons, however I removed them again. As previously mentioned the quality is far below the other images in the article, and for such a small article there is already more than enough images (wikipedia is not gallery). The all sky crepscular rays are not rare, I've seen a few myself and a quick google search comes up plenty of examples (eg [10] [11]). The tree image is unnecessary, such types are not mentioned in the article, it belongs in the commons. There are many such images available on the net [12] [13] [14] [15] because crepscular rays are obvious subject choices for photographs. That is why the article only includes the very best wiki has to offer, and I'm sorry, but your images are just too low quality without any over riding reason in their favour. --Fir0002 01:47, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Please consider leaving this thread intact for a few days as I was unable to put in all my reasoning into the 200 character limit of the edit summary. --Fir0002 01:54, 5 August 2007 (UTC)--Mbz1 02:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Image:Sparrow on ledge.jpg

Hi Fir0002/Archive 5,
do you have a higher resoluted version Image:Sparrow on ledge.jpg?
I'm asking, because if you have a version which's resolution is at least 2 Mio pix. it could become a featured picture.
--D-Kuru 13:49, 6 August 2007 (UTC) (commonsadmin D-Kuru)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Clerid beetle04.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 14, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-14. howcheng {chat} 00:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Large brown mantid close up nohair.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 18, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-18. howcheng {chat} 00:07, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:European wasp white bg.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 22, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-08-22. howcheng {chat} 02:01, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

TRIPLE KILL!!!!-209.171.52.224 14:05, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

A crazed fan

DUDE!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!! YOUR PHOTOS ARE TEH_PWNAGE!!! --E2MB the museblogger 03:31, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

P.S. You can go to my userpage to find out what teh_pwnage means. :)

Thank you! :) - teh_pwnage lol --Fir0002 06:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Drone fly feeding on marigold.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Drone fly feeding on marigold.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:34, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Drone fly feeding on marigold.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 9, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-12-09. howcheng {chat} 21:35, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

A very belated congratulations

Hi Fir, please accept a very late gratz on your adminship last year!

I just wanted to stop by to apologise for never getting back to you at the time: I think I had burned myself out with performing about 3k disambiguations in a month or so, and without intending to take a break, I went a year without logging on. I'm just about back and starting work on my first new article now.

Oh and in case I never stopped by to say so last year, let me join everyone else in saying thanks for the fantastic work! You've provided half my desktop pictures for the last couple of years :-) Best wishes ~ Veledan • T 22:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Personal question

How do you make all of the really cool banners? I know that some, if not all, are jpg's, so how are they created, as in what program? Please tell me, as I really want to know. Dreamy ^\*/_!$! 22:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Punctate Flower Chafer.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 7, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-07. howcheng {chat} 00:52, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Your hoverfly photo on Flickr

Peter, in regards to that hoverfly image of yours that has been uploaded to flickr here and here, if you haven't already you should try the 'report abuse' link on those pages. One of the categories is "someone has uploaded photos that I have taken". It can easily be proved that you uploaded it to commons long before those two uploaded it to flickr so there is no question who is in the right. I strongly suggest you do this if you haven't already. Raven4x4x 00:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't have too much time either I'm afraid; 3rd year engineering at university is just as busy as year 12. I will, however, try to go through those pictures and find all the ones from Wikipedia. Raven4x4x 06:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Photoshop

Alright, I know that they are created in Photoshop, so what version of Photoshop? Dreamy ^\*/_!$! 22:28, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help! Dreamy ^\*/_!$! 13:47, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Delist Nomination

Hey, I nominated your Redback spider picture for delisting. Failing size requirements, cutout BG, not really sharp. Obviously, if you feel that this picture still meets requirements for FP, vote at its nomination here. Also, on a different note, why is it that you strip the EXIF data from your pictures? I'd love to look at settings from some of your pictures. cheers, -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 21:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Peter,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Large brown mantid07 edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 13, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-09-13. howcheng {chat} 16:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for editing the image of her majesty, the featured picture candidate. You're edit seems to be the pic people are going for, and thanks for doing photo stuff to it. :-) --Hadseys —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.36.182.217 (talk) 13:21, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Graphics Lab Announcement

Attention All Wikigraphists!

A new Wikigraphist Abilities Page has been created within the Graphics Lab so graphists can specify their graphics skills. To add your entry to the page, simply go the template documentation page and follow the instructions there. If you have any trouble please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Have Fun !

> Rugby471 ^talk ⚔

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Total lunar eclipse august 28 2007.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Total lunar eclipse august 28 2007 edit.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 03:16, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD

Hi Fir,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Total lunar eclipse august 28 2007 edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 31, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-12-31. howcheng {chat} 01:10, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:EIAJconnector2 blemish.jpg

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Hey

Hey, just decided to drop in to say - good luck 4 the HSC!

Lady Nimue of the Lake 10:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

FPC nom closure....

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Richard_Bartz#Wikipedia_FP_Promotion ???? --Fir0002 06:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

• Bit of a mistake there, I stupidly pasted the wrong image. Fixed now. NauticaShades 03:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Drone flies mating.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Drone flies mating.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 10:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Motorcycle phillip island

Thanks for posting the picture at the Superbike racing article. The picture was of Gianluca Vizziello riding the Yamaha YZF-R6, a supersport bike, so I moved it to Supersport racing. Chris Ssk 11:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Motorbikes

Umm, can't remember - you can't read it on any of them I don't guess? I would think, going on the size of the engine in the photo, and the way they were being used, that they were 250s, but I'm no motorbike expert. --jjron 08:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, wondering where all your noms were! Could be worth trying, it's a little motion blurred, and that bit where the number would go at the front looks a bit blown. But, if that's all you've got with you, could be worth a shot. Any other good ones? --jjron 09:18, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I really like that shot with green bike much better. Is that the one that that guy in the comment up above has identified the rider for? And if so, can it go in his article too, assuming he has one? I see what you mean about sharpness, but on the other hand that other shonky motorbike pic got through a few weeks back, and this is no less sharp than that was. Wind turbines - mmm, I don't really think anything we got there quite does it as FP, but you never know; I was half considering going via there on the way to Melbourne to try again, see if there was somewhere to get a really good shot. --jjron 09:38, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Graphics Lab Announcement

Attention All Wikigraphists!

As you may or may have not noticed, the Graphics Lab pages have gone under a massive cleanup by User:DTR, User:Rugby471 and various others (sorry if I missed you out). Some of the things that have happened are.

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• All pages in the Graphics Lab have had, where sensible, templates, substituting elements. For example, the main Lab page was a large chunk of around 100 lines of pure code. It was not very easy to edit the main page, so the various sections of it (eg links, welcome) have been separated. Therefore the main page is now only around 20 lines of user friendly text. If you wish to edit the main page, you must look on the main page for the correct template to edit. (Fore example if I wanted to edit the links section, I would go to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/links and edit the text there). This has been done to all of the pages, in an attempt to make them more user-friendly.

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• As you were notified of early, the Wikigraphist Abilities page has been set up and has been beginning to get populated. If you haven't already setup your own entry, you are advised to go and do so now.

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• Due to a comment from User:DTR. A template for Graphics Lab announcements has been created. It is at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement. If you ever need to issue a message to Wikigraphists, please use this template in the form

{{Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement|message ~~~~}}

Where message is the announcement you wish to issue.

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As always, if you experience any issues with the new changes, or are just a bit confused, please don't hesitate to contact me or DTR on our talk pages.

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> Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 11:32, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Motorbike rider mono.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Motorbike rider mono.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 02:09, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Quality comaprison jpg vs saveforweb.jpg

Interesting concept for an image! Sorry to be critical, but there's a few things that need pointing out.

1. Your description has several errors:

1a. "As can bee seen ..." should read "As can be seen ..."

1b. "Also save for web jpg images generally have a larger file size until jpg quality = 7 and SFW = 67 when SFW becomes larger in size."
- should read (note the two corrections) -
"Also save for web jpg images generally have a smaller file size until jpg quality = 7 and SFW = 58 when SFW becomes larger in size."

2. When choosing "Save As", you've allowed PhotoShop to save the images with additional "extras", which make the comparisons look worse than they should. Doing this on my system, with "Thumbnail" and "ICC Profile" un-ticked in the "Save As" dialog, it produced files approximately 16Kb smaller than each of yours. I don't have exact figures because I didn't have your exact source image, nor did I have your exact filesize figures, only the points on the graph.

Hopefully you can either re-create the image or at least amend the description for a more meaningful result. Ian Fieggen 23:39, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Two-lined gum treehopper02.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Two-lined gum treehopper03.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:09, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Request for details of an image

Hello, there. I found Image:MotoX racing03.jpg at Commons, and I would like to include it in the Motorsport Portal's image gallery, but we need to apply captions to all our images. Do you happen to know the name of the rider (if he is a pro), the event, etc? Any details welcome. Thanks. Adrian M. H. 15:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

No unfortunately I don't have any more details of the rider etc. I took it at a come and try/race day of the Lakes MX club so he's just a teen hobby rider --Fir0002 22:26, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, that's a pity, but thanks for replying anyway. It's a very good pic, though, so it may yet be used somewhere. I was browsing through your gallery after posting here and your work is quite impressive; you have a natural eye for composition. Adrian M. H. 23:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Versailles Chapel - July 2006 edit.jpg

You're absolutely right about that image, sorry about that. Two mistakes made. I did the editing on a laptop with a crappy low-saturation screen and it looked a bit more normal, but viewing it again on my work monitor (not much better but usable), it does look overcooked... Also, I didn't mean to overwrite your edit. I forgot that the FP version was yours. I'm sure I can find the middle ground in terms of saturation. You're welcome to re-upload a less saturated version over the top of it if you like. As for my HDR technique, nothing fancy - just Photomatix and the latest version of PTgui will do HDR tone mapping, although it won't work with multi-processed single images, they have to be of a bracketed sequence, whereas Photomatix does. As for that Clapham 360, it actually wasn't HDR at all (and for the record neither was this one, which you asked about and I just realised I never replied to. It was just a single (non bracketed) image sequence processed from RAW (which incidentally I still recommend!!). Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Help please

Hi Fir. Congratulations on the great insect pictures you have taken. I too am interested in taking insect photographs, but rarely do I know the species. So I was wondering, how do you know the species of the insect? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Muhammad Mahdi Karim 18:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi again,

Thanks for the information. I have another question if you dont mind. Could you please provide me with the email of the organizations?

Thanks again. Muhammad Mahdi Karim 09:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Muhammad Mahdi Karim 17:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Long tongue tachinid fly.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Long tongue tachinid fly edit.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Chris B • talk 09:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Request for permission to use template style.

Hi there.

I'm currently looking at updating the template style on my userpage from the rather outdated green and blue look I currently am using. Therefore, I ask if I may use your main userpage template, but none of the images. I would give you credit on the page it would be used on, my main userpage.

I await your reply! Asenine 14:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

wikipedia weekly interviewee userbox

Hi there, It's been a while but I had the idea of giving a userbox to everyone who's come on the show in the past. User:Scartol was kind enough to do it for us. So.. All you need to do is put the code on your userpage, if you want: {{User:Scartol/ubx/WikWeekGuest|18|http://wikipediaweekly.org/2007/04/24/wikipedia-weekly-18/}}

Which should look like this:

This user was a guest on Episode 18 of Wikipedia Weekly. You can listen here.

Cheers, Witty Lama 00:45, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

wikipe-tan

LOL just let them have their FP and move on- it's obvious that it'll be impossible to fight the flood of wikiproject anime users. This was exactly the point of Nupedia --ffroth 00:01, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Whoops, never mind. Looks like merc saved the day. --ffroth 17:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I had hoped debaters on both sides would keep an open mind and refrain from personal attacks albeit direct or indirect. In terms of quality image, I won't point fingers accusing ignorance, however, seeing it as just a simple cartoon that anyone could make up is under appreciating the creativity and skill of creating such an image. A person has to look beyond the comparison to a photograph. Your photos are amazing, very high quality and one can take pride in such work. Your strong sentiment against Wikipe-tan, though, stems from that. I had stated that I hoped people would avoid those feelings where a person may feel insulted because a "cartoon" is being featured among quality photographs, for example such as your own. You don't have to prove their worth to me in stating that offers by university. I can clearly see they are great images. I, again, understand yet disagree and hope that judgements are based on the quality of creativity and magnitude of the art done. Like you, I am a photographer myself though clearly no match for what you've done. As well I do image editing and drawing, and based on those experiences and trials I can appreciate Wikipe-tan above the fact it's anime. As for the aliasing issue, a simple vector of her will do just fine. If you don't know already, vectoring will immediately take out any and all distortion issues in a very small amount of time, which is why I said it's not a big issue. Working to fix a photograph is entirely harder than working on a character image. If you are able to grasp that much then you can see where I'm coming from in my response. I apologize for not explaining it further so you wouldn't feel so passionate about it. Fox816 02:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

If you take some careful time in reading your first response, calling my validation stupid (though not explicitly saying my own though it is in clear reference to me) is an indirect personal attack, ontop of the ignorance claim. Again I apologize for not being more detailed so you wouldn't get so fired up and ask you be more calm and patient the next time around. I should also clarify that being, printed I see is a wrong word, rather featured gives credibility to the image. Wikipe-tan was in fact featured/portrayed (whichever since printed is too broad) in the media to represent Wikipedia. As such that is credit, very good credit which would be true enough for any image in such position. Fox816 18:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Maybe you could help

Hi, Fir0002. Could you, please, teach me how to restore contests of my talk page, if it is not very complicated. Thank you.(I've asked Cacophony, but he is not responding, probably he's out somewhere.)--Mbz1 20:32, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• • It is done more or less. Thank you.--Mbz1 13:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

You're right

.--Mbz1 15:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! :) --Fir0002 08:13, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Your image Image:Potato and cross section.jpg was the random picture of the day for November 7, 2007. It looked like this:

Random picture of the day

A potato

Image credit: Fir0002 (talk · contribs)

. Again, Congratulations! - Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:00, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! --Fir0002 08:14, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Calf FP

An image edited by you has been promoted to featured picture status Image:Hereford Calf Portrait, SC, Vic, 13.10.2007 edit.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. Thanks for your contribution to my photo and the nomination! --jjron 07:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC) 02:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice pics

Hi, I saw your pictures and I must say they are astonishing. Nice work. H92110 18:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments H92110, appreciate it --Fir0002 08:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Possible image mis-use

Just a heads-up. I was using StumbleUpon and ran across this site which makes use of a thumbnail version of your mating hoverflies picture with no credit given to you. Granted, it's not the most egregious mis-use ever, but since I knew the image from the Featured Pictures pages (I should really get back there, it's been awhile) I figured I'd let you know. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 19:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Id of skipper in image placed by you

Hi, we have recently been plagued by misidentifications of Darts and other skippers, some looking just like the one you placed at Skipper. The Skippersare an exceptionally difficult group to identify. Please confirm whether you had the image identification checked by a lepidopterologist. In case not, may I request that this be done. This is very important from Wikipedia's reliability point of view.

I also take this opprtunity to thank you for providing images for Lepidoptera articles. AshLin (talk) 13:44, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

FPC Issues

Fir, don't let the nitpicking at FPC get you down, It's gotten so pointless nowadays that I don't spend that much time there myself anymore. Apparently a lot of these people don't know good photography when it's shown right to them. Anyway, it happens and I hope you continue to keep putting such great shots up on FPC. Cat-five - talk 23:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Cat-five, it does get me down a bit but I guess that's just the way it goes. Thanks for the encouragement :) --Fir0002 01:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cessna 182P.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Cessna 182P.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 03:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S. 957. MER-C 03:10, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Sparrow image used in gorrion.info

Greetings.

I wanted to tell you I have used your home sparrow image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:House_sparrowIII.jpg) in my web site (gorrion.info). Gorrión is the Spanish Language word for sparrow.

I tried to take some photographs from sparrows, but didn't have any acceptable results. Your photos, in contrast, are REALLY EXCELENT.

Given the Wikipedia material is under LGPL license, I guess there is no problem about using it elsewhere. Anyway I'm giving mention to you in the image's title, and in the license page.
Could be translated like this:
title: Header made from image gifted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fir0002 to the Wikipedia. Thanks, Peter!
License: Header's Sparrow image: The photograph the favicon and the header are based on is taken from the Wikipedia. It's autor is photographer Peter, from Australia. This content is under the LGPL 2 license.

If you notice something is incorrect about it please tell me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.77.163.169 (talk) 20:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

• You're very welcome. Also if you don't mind, please sign my autograph page. • EvanS :: talk § email § photos • 23:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Sceliodes cordalis.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Sceliodes cordalis.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 02:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

combat

Hey Peter, just wanted to say, contrary to appearances, that I was glad to see your moth FPC get promoted today.. I seem to be particularly combative these days, I'm like a dog with a bone. Must be getting my period or something. So long as you know it's nothing personal. Keep up the good work. --mikaul^talk 15:17, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Mick, no problem - I think I'm pretty combative too :) --Fir0002 22:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Within reason, its good to be feisty I think. Better to stand your ground on issues that are important to you than to pander to consensus. That said, you have to pick your fights carefully or you end up stepping on everyone's toes. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Aptly put Dilif, :) --Fir0002 08:29, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

One Laptop per Child

Hi Fir. I saw this and wanted to point it out to you because I think its cool. Since the display in question is obviously a screenshot, and includes your credit, I'm hoping it's not, or that at least you don't consider it a violation of your copy left, although it technically doesn't appear to have the text of the GNU license with it. One Laptop per Child uses a wikipedia POTD feed screen shot with your clerid beetle image as its example of newsgroup browsing. [16] (you have to click on the blue icon, 1st icon in the second row, to get to it.) Neat, huh? Enuja (talk) 09:53, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah that's brilliant - exactly what I want my images to be used for on wiki! And it is pretty neat that they're using my POTD - thanks for showing me that link :) --Fir0002 22:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Just wondering, but how did you ever find this? • EvanS :: talk § email § photos • 19:02, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I was curious about the XO computer and its current promotion where you buy an XO for the price of two and have the second sent to a child in a poor country. Enuja (talk) 02:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Common White-spot Skipper Butterfly.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Green Grass-Dart.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

964 now, but with the sudden drop off in volume I'm wondering if we'll ever get there. MER-C 04:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Hehe have faith we should get there soon enough - I decided I needed to pace myself with the noms as people were starting to forget that the shots I'm posting are the culmination of several months of work and assuming that I've got thousands like them (at least that's the impression I got) --Fir0002 05:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

The reason why I'm anxious is I'm set to go on a holiday on the 28th. It's not looking good, but I hope the flood comes on time. :) MER-C 08:29, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll try get the flood started with a few more noms - it seems to be picking up tho --Fir0002 22:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello?

Are you online, if so please reply on my talk page. It's URGENT!--Emma44 (talk) 11:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Image:A_day_panorama_-_digital_art.jpg

Nice shot.. :-) I was thinking about doing something like that a while ago but you've re-inspired me. How did you blend it? Was it manual? I suspect using an auto blender would probably not work very well with the colour shift from midday to sunrise/sunset since it tends to correct it whenever possible. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 17:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

You seem to be on FPC.

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Fir0002.jpg <-- Hmm. --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Apparently old news. Coincidently that superfan tried to create an article [17] as well... --Dschwen 21:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah it was quite a shock to see it as I scrolled through the page last night... And yeah I just took a look at the page. Hmm very interesting (and flattering!) but entirely inappropriate! --Fir0002 21:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

FP Emperor Tamarin

An image edited by you has been promoted to featured picture status Image:Tamarin portrait 2 edit3.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. Thanks for your contribution to my photo and the nomination! --Mbz1 (talk) 14:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC))

Tortoise FPCC

Hi, Could you please give your opinion on the images here before I nominate for Featured Picture? Thanks, Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 19:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Horehound Bug apr07.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Horehound Bug apr07 edit.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on your admin vanity page. MER-C 04:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

? I assume you mean Fir0002? Thanks I think :) --Fir0002 10:18, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Hebe x franciscana

Hi, The image Image:Hebe x franciscana.jpg is up for delisting.

Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Blocks

Hey Fir0002! Yes, the block should be working just fine but blocked users can still edit their own talk pages (so they can request unblocking) unless they are protected. Said talk pages can be protected in case of abuse. Congratulations on your first block! And it only took you about a year and a half of being an admin to get around to it! :p --KFP (talk | contribs) 18:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

...And what an awesome dragon! --KFP (talk | contribs) 19:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough and thanks for the help! hehe - yeah well you don't want to rush these things :P And yes I'm quite proud of that dragon - I drew it in Year 8. I made a sculpture of the second dragon (the one behind the tower) in Year 9 but it's not quite as pretty as the water colour ;) --Fir0002 21:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

FPC captions

I saw your statement on FPC captions and I'd like to suggest a solution to the problem. It seems it is the template that's really the root of the problem, (not just a bunch of dumb editors) so perhaps the best strategy would be to make one or more minor changes to its language. Changing Proposed caption to Optional extended caption, or something along those lines, might do the trick.

Most editors are well-intentioned, and are just looking to other noms as examples. Are we all just idiots who don't read/understand the nuances of the FP criteria, or is something else the matter? Rather than telling us how we're wrong and telling us what not to do, a better solution might be to set up an example page, which shows the right way to do things. People follow examples, so set a good one. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 20:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

OK that's a fair point - not everyone voting on the page is going to have an intimate understanding of how it works and will just follow examples. But I have commented quite strongly on several of my nominations about the low importance of an extended caption but it has been largely ignored (hence the creation of the more detailed page). Your suggestion is quite good and I think I'll have a go at modifying the template and making an example page (although as I said I think my caption length is more or less right) some time today. Thanks, --Fir0002 22:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

California Condor

I have admired your work and appreciate your assistance in getting my California Condor photo to Featured status. Cszmurlo (talk) 15:28, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Spizella-passerina-015.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Spizella-passerina-015 edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Chris.B • talk 16:57, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Coragyps-atratus-002.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Coragyps-atratus-001.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 02:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Top of page link

Yeah, sounds good, if you can tell me what to do, or how to fix (remove) it if it causes something odd like the other one did. He can't make it so that it 'migrates' down the page as you scroll can he? - that'd be pretty cool. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 09:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Question. See my signature above - it now shows a link to my talk page. It didn't used to, and I don't know what I've changed. I thought maybe Wiki changed the default behaviour of signatures or something, but I notice that yours still just shows just your username. Any ideas? --jjron (talk) 09:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

The way you wrote it initially you said "...at the bottom of the side bar", which I thought meant when you got to the bottom of a long page, it was there 'at the bottom of the side bar'. Anyway, that's good. It sits almost on top of 'User contributions' when at the top of the page (you may not have noticed with your bigger screen?). Anyway, I'll give it a try, I don't think that will matter much about sitting on top of the other links because you can use both, it looks useful. Thanks for that.

Re the sig, I've checked my User Prefs to try to fix this, but it's just set to the default signature. That's why I don't get why it's started displaying differently. You've never changed yours from the default have you?

Did you get the email about the VicPhysics comp? I sent it to you yesterday, but your name was also on the CC list of the original message, so I thought you would have already had it. --jjron (talk) 03:53, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, had a bit of a play with the parameters in the code; it's good now, pretty much dodges any text in the sidebar (though funny, it disappears under the languages box on FPC). --jjron (talk) 04:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I used to have a link to flagstaffotos in my sig, but got rid of it as it caused a stink on my RFA. Maybe wikimedia has added that bit to all users who've never changed their sig? Change yours to something else and then change it back and see what happens.

:) As you guessed it fits perfectly on my screen

I found the vicphyiscs email - gmail had filed it as spam. Be interesting to see what the payout is! --Fir0002 06:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, quite a bit different on your screen. Funny thing to pick up as spam. BTW your userpage says 97 FPs; I thought you said 98? Better get it right! --jjron (talk) 07:38, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Licensing

I began a discussion concerning the licensing on your images (i.e. Image:Latte.jpg) over at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Mixing licenses on self-made images; you'll probably want to drop by to participate.

On a related note, you've got some excellent photos contributed here - nice work. Tijuana Brass (talk) 01:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Pterois volitans Manado-e edit.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Pterois volitans Manado-e edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 07:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The last for a while...

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Bullant head detail.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Tricyrtis hirta - blossom top (aka).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. MER-C 04:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

html stuff

how did you do your page? did you make it in dreamweaver or something and then copy the html? is that even possible? so many questions! 202.156.66.110 (talk) 08:37, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah designed it in Frontpage and just imported it here --Fir0002 03:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Adobe RGB profile

Hi Peter, nice to hear about you.
You are right, most of my pictures was developed in Abobe RGB colorspace because I used to develop only for print purpose. At first I only resized my pictures and uploaded them to Commons. Now I'm uploading new images in sRGB colorspace (Libya and USA) and I'll re-develop all my images in sRGB from RAW for Commons, but I need a lot of spare time to do that :) --LucaG (talk) 22:42, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Fishing spider autotomy.jpg

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Fishing spider autotomy.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 09:03, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

P.S. It's action time. MER-C 09:03, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanx ... nearly :) --Fir0002 10:52, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Better resolution?

Hi,

First let me say you have some amazing pictures, but do you have any higher res pictures of these?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Brachypelma_edit.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Garden_orb_weaver05.jpg

Both are FP,but they seem a bit low res.

Regards, --Technosphere83 (talk) 13:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Technosphere83, I do have higher res but I'll have to hunt out the originals. I'll try get around to it in the next few days. --Fir0002 08:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Mimus-polyglottos-002 edit.jpg

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mimus-polyglottos-002 edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Chris.B (talk) 13:53, 23 December 2007 (UTC)