User talk:Fir0002/Archive 5

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[edit] Day old chick -> FP

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Day old chick black background.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. ~~~~

Yet another great shot, Wikipedia is no doubt reminiscent of your photo albums by now! Nice work. |→ Spaully°τ 22:03, 10 April 2006 (GMT)

[edit] Dinner Plain promoted

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Dinner plain summer pano02.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.

Congratulations (again)! ~ Veledan • Talk 13:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania Media Contest, 2006

Dear Fir,

Glad to see you're in touch with Fernanda Viegas. She's awesome.

I'm planning another media competition this summer, like the one from last year. I could use serious help from some dedicated media-lovers. Would you be interested in helping organize the competition this year, and being one of the judges?

Cheers, +sj + 18:48, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

PS - for instance, it would be great if the presentations from last year (on commons) were turned into a proper gallery. Then the contest needs some promotion; with a local feeder contest next month on en; then open for submissions, and keep them organized into their own galleries... then prelim judging, celeb judging, and a nice awards ceremony :-)

[edit] Photo:An early radio on display in the National Museum of Australia

This image appears to be a localizing speaker as part of a display and not an early radio.

The anonymous notice above has been copied here from the talk page of the article History of radio. Since you uploaded the image, can you provide any additional information? The photo appears to be a modern plastic hemisphere rather than an old radio. --Blainster 06:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mac again

Hey! Your crespuscular ray picture is the picture of the day tomorrow! Congrats!

Well, I need a favor, per se. I am applying for the National Honor Society, in my 2nd year of secondary school, I think that's how your Aussies say it :). Perhaps you could write a short bit saying who you are, and that I contribute well to Wikipedia, participating in many activities, and I am in a number of groups, I welcome new users etc etc etc or something like that, and I have a large number of contributions (1500 going on 2000). Wikipedia counts as a community service, extracurricular activity, and its a "club." Its sort of like a letter of recommendation, that I have the smarts and character to join the National Honors Society. Thank you very much!! I need it in a day or two, only one or two paragraphs. -- Mac Davis] ⌇☢ ญƛ. 10:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] user page

Just wanted to say, that beyond a shadow of a doubt, you have the nicest user-page in all of Wikimedia land. Bawolff 22:22, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Aw, how cute. I think she's interested. *wink* *wink* -- Mac Davis] ⌇☢ ญƛ. 10:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mania?

1. Please let me know re: this year's wikimania contest.
2. And please : No external links in your signature!  :-)
3. I'll check out the dragonflies soon.

+sj + 19:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your river pic (Harrietville Trout Farm)

Hey Fir, just wanted to know how you post-processed that image. It appears to be one a tone mapped HDR->LDR image, as well as having the associated unrealistic 'glow' in certain bright areas. ;) Nice pic, though. I miss Oz. :) England isn't particularly photogenic! At least, London isn't, once you get past the usual touristy suspects. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

• I haven't completely given up on England. You're right, there are pockets of beauty here and there, but London is by and large quite uninspiring! St Pauls Cathedral is the most obvious cathedral, but that costs $24 to get in and photography is prohibited, I've already done the Tower of London, I think I could probably improve on the existing FP of Westminster], so that is a possibility and Buckingham Palace isn't even worthy of anything other than a touristy snapshot photo! :) The scene is too 'busy' and its hard to find an angle that doesn't have fences, bushes, people, etc in the way (As in here[1].. which is coincidently the featured article for today). And when its all said and done, Buckingham Palace isn't that visually impressive anyway, IMHO! Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FPC

I think you nominated the sunset pic at WP:FPC in the wrong place - you probably want to move it to the top of the page. Stevage 15:49, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arles Image Web Page Creator

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your notification. The fact that the Arles website uses that image is not quite a coincidence as I am the owner.

Janderk 15:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured picture promotion

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mt hotham summer scenery02 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.

Congratulations again; keep them coming! :-) ~ Veledan • Talk 21:54, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats

I've just been looking through all your images, they are absolutely spectacular. Particularly amazed at the Connors Hill Panorama. Nice work! michael ^talk 07:05, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sunsetwithfunnelclouds.jpg

those aren't funnnel clouds. a funnel cloud is a tornado before it reaches the ground. Joeyramoney 17:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Fir0002 design 07.gif

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[edit] Image Tagging Image:Fir0002 design 07.gif

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[edit] Hello!

Finally, I found your userpage! A long, long time ago, you introduced me to an external site where you could ask questions and such, very similar to how the Reference desk here operates. I wanted to thank you for that - I didn't get back to you earlier because for the longest time, I thought your username was Fir2000 and not Fir0002! Anyway, I hope you are well, and hopefully we'll see more wonderful pictures from you soon! --HappyCamper 20:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal_talk:Science/Featured_picture

Well, I started the weekly maintained Science portal's featured picture. If you have any ideas, pictures, or commentary to add, please do. -- Mac Davis] ⌇☢ ญƛ. 03:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured picture promotion

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Mt hotham alpine range scenery.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.

Another unanimous promotion! ~ Veledan • Talk 21:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moon in daytime

FIR002, I envy your picture of the moon against a blue sky. I have tried to take a picture of the moon at dusk, and do not have the necessary features in my digital camera (3x zoom, f/number 3.5). I somehow believe I would be able take pictures of the moon, if I had the correct zoom and f/number (10x zoom?, f/2.8, tripod?). This is a guess based on conversations with others who have been able to take pictures of the moon (They had a Canon, 10x zoom) with their digital cameras. I have also heard that ISO 800 setting might help. Is there an additional specification which I might need to get that shot I want? --Ancheta Wis 23:36, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Fir0002, yes, that is the picture. My problem is that the blue sky is overwhelming the faint moon in the image. If I didn't know that the moon was at that location, I would not have been able to see the faint moon in the image. Because there are a lot of other details in my picture, I can see why image of the moon would be washed out. But in your picture, there is a huge variation in dynamic range, and your picture of the moon just pops right out. So if you were to crop out everything but the moon, your picture would still show lots of detail. But in my picture, it just looks like a patch of sky.

Thank you for your recommendation. It really helps to know what to get, the next time. Regards, Ancheta Wis 09:39, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, your picture of the moon must have been shot in the Southern Hemisphere: it's upside down to my eyes!!! --Ancheta Wis 09:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Mackerel tabby.jpg

I have nominated Image:Mackerel tabby.jpg for removal of the cat article. Please vote on the removal. Go here: Talk:Cat#Vote_for_removal_of_Image:Mackerel_tabby.jpg to vote. Thanks, --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 06:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Fir0002 banner 01.jpg

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[edit] Orange cat

I uploaded your Wikispecies picture of the orange cat and am now using it on my userpage becuase it looks almost exactly like my cat. Do you mind if I do that?--ÑøζζłεΜαń 12:09, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I also am using your picture of a water droplet as my desktop background. Very cool.

[edit] Congrats

At the risk of boring you witless with all the accolades, may I say that I think your photography is absolutely fabulous. Thanks for making it available to the world. Maustrauser 00:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a lot! --Fir0002 www 11:27, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Awesome photos. I do photography myself. Check out my site. (Cheap Tripod site. Whaddya gonna do?

matthewtrevithick.tripod.com

Sign the guestbook and tell me what you think on my wiki talk page

Koolgiy|

[edit] Photos

I came across your awesome photos on commons! I like photography as well. I have a Panasonic FZ15 (35-420mm with IS). My photos on wiki are here: User:Waqas.usman/Waqas.usman_gallery. I'd like you to comment on my photos as well :) I've been learning gradually about a little post-processing as well (sometimes I use the auto-fix in Picasa2 and sometimes I do some extensive sharpness correction etc in PShop with layer masks). Do you process most of your images or are they straight from the camera (except cropping)? Of course I realize that a DSLR's quality of image is higher, I was just wondering how often do you have to process your images. Please reply at my talk page. More of my photos are at http://pbase.com/waqas and http://waqas.fotopic.net Waqas.usman 08:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Waqas.usman!

Thanks a lot for your kind comment! I like your pix, my favourite being Image:Panorama Rakaposhi&Diran.JPG. Very nice! I've also heard of the Panosonic - it's got some very nice specs. Do you like it (particularly the IS)? I definetly post process. Pretty much all my images I give a standarded sharpening, levels adjustment, but some take a lot more. I don't think any professional would upload straight from the camera, you can always do a little more. I'm not saying that the quality of a DSLR isn't excellent (it is!) but you'd be silly not to make your pic just perfect. You can also recover some shocking shots into something quite usable. Have a look at this: Before, After. You might have different taste to me, but I quite like the edit.

Anyway thanks again for your message! --Fir0002 www 10:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Fir0002, Thanks for your comments. I had been busy the last few days... The Panasonics are good (FZ10, 15, 20, then FZ30), but their problem is the small sensor size and hence the noise. Otherwise they would have ruled the market (because they all had f/2.8 throughout 420mm range, not on FZ30 though). The FZ10 had a 1/2.5" CCD and gave 4MP, and its successors FZ15 and FZ20 also had 4MP and 5MP with the same 1/2.5" CCD sensor, but other upgrades. I chose FZ15 because of lower noise. Earlier I had an Olympus C2100UZ (38-380mm, IS, 2MP), I wish Oly had made a replacement for that, it was perfect for its generation and more than perfect for the price. I love the IS, but I've been wanting to get a DSLR because of the noise thing, and the lack of control with DoF (KM 5D is the nearest thing to my dream cam coz of the Anti-Shake built-in).

You're right about editing, I've been too lazy (or didn't have time to do the editing when I was able to upload earlier on), but now I do try to edit the pics before uploading them. About the two images you gave, I'll probably prefer a brightened version but I didn't like that brightened version better, you have a different taste :)

Nice talking to you! Waqas.usman 01:30, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photos (2)

Ya i did check them out. Your better than me. P.S. Nice camera. Better than mine too. Anyway, thanks for signing the guestbook.

Matt

Koolgiy

[edit] Scanner photo

Hi,

I used your photo of the Canoscan 9950F to illustrate an article at the Teleread blog about scanning one's personal library. Thanks for the great pic!--branko 14:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quick question(s)

I'm just wondering what program you use to edit pictures (your pics are awesome), and do you use it to make panoramas? or can your camera take panoramas? I've tried making panoramas with adobe photoshop elements, and I can never do it right. Thanks!--TheAlphaWolf 21:12, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured picture promotion

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Salad platter.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.

Lol I'm going to have to go downstairs and make a salad now!  :-) ~ Veledan • Talk 10:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DOF

I'm often frustrated by people of FPC who oppose images with shallow DOF in cases where the shallow DOF actually enhances the image, for example in cases where it makes the background less distracting. I ran across the salad platter image and was wondering if you thought that this was a case which benefited from the shallow DOF, or if perhaps you need a tilt/shift lens. :) --Gmaxwell 22:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Give my a grand or two and I'll get one :-) --Fir0002 www 08:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

All you need to do is stop down. :) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:38, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clickable image (Fir0002_banner_02.jpg)

Hello Fir0002,
I have optimised your user page in regard to your clickable image! Your user page (as well as your website) looks very cool, by the way! Are all of those (excellent!) pictures taken by yourself? --- Greetings from Germany, Melancholie 04:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured picture promotion

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Tulip - floriade canberra.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.

A tough subject to get through FPC true, but it passed with plenty of supports to spare :-) Gratz both ~ Veledan • Talk 18:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User page awards

Fir0002, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! - Pureblade | ^Θ 15:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nasturtiums

Thanks for your great photographic contributions to Wikipedia. Just noticed that your picture Pink nasturtiums.jpg actually show pink petunias--Melburnian 03:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for that info - I may enjoy a bit of sucess in taking photos, but I'm pretty hopeless in get ID for them ;-) --Fir0002 www 08:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My real age

Hi Peter. You can work out my real age from the (real) DOB on my userpage. (The only thing that's fictional on there is the "current date"; the article is written as through it was still 1973.) — JEREMY 11:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image info question

I was just wondering where and when [2] was taken? Nice photo, by the way. -- Beland 01:57, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Beland,

Why do you need the info? I'd prefer not to disclose the location etc, as I'm not sure on how the council of that area would view that kind of disclosure. As for the date, it was taken about a year and a bit ago. --Fir0002 www 08:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

It would be interesting for readers to have some context. I'm sure different parts of the world do this sort of thing differently, and this is a good example of the way things were done at a particular time in a particular place. It's also a rather beautiful landscape, in stark contrast with the pile of garbage, and it makes me curious about how the rest of that landscape is doing. Most landfills are in out-of-the-way places, and people don't really know where they are, so it would be informative to locate this one precisely, or at least describe the general area (remote wilderness, suburbia, island, etc). It's not like anyone can make you un-take the picture, but if you don't want to reveal the exact jurisdiction, it would be interesting to know the country and state/province if applicable. -- Beland 12:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Well OK. Photo was taken in Victoria, Australia. --Fir0002 www 09:26, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] banksia photos

Hey Antony, nice banksia photos - can you write down where they were taken and Ican help ID some of them. PS: There are loads of nice banksias in east gipplsand including a new species on the Betke river which should be in flower about now..... cheers Cas Liber

Umm, I think you've got the wrong person. --Fir0002 www 08:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pic peer review request

G'day, love your work. I'm fishing for comments for peer review at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cement truck, would you mind? Stevage 12:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Came accross your userpage from the VandalProof talk page, and I must say... *blink* Wow. Its so... smooth. I was meaning to make a slice graphic for my userpage so that you could click on different parts of a picture and go to the place, but they don't let us upload Flash. >_< But yeah, just wanted to say how envious I am now. :P Cheers, Master of Puppets ^{That's hot.} 08:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I've tried to get through on Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award but I've never had any luck - maybe too fancy :-). Anyway, glad you liked it! --Fir0002 www 09:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured picture candidates/Snail-WA

What program did you use to sharpen this? I can't seem to get the same result.Froggydarb 09:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you just going to ignore me? Froggydarb 06:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Froggydarb 09:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

Figured you couldn't wait till next week: IT 98.5%, pipped Physics by 1%. BTW SC page is coming along, it's even got a TOC now. --jjron 14:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Add pics to SC. See discussion page. Am working on Tas SW Wilderness now. --jjron 09:23, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taking photos of Flinders St Station

G'day, I had this idea for taking photos of things like that where you have traffic passing constantly. Is it possible to take a long succession of photos (say 20 photos in the space of a minute, or even more?) then reconstitute all the parts of the images together that don't have cars across them at any point in time? Do you know if anyone's tried this kind of thing? Could be a pretty unique photo afterwards! Flinders St at midday without a single car or pedestrian! Stevage 17:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA Notification

Hello! I noticed that you have interacted with user:Staxringold who is currently undergoing an RfA and thought that you might be interested in participating at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Staxringold 2. You have received this message without the endorsement of the candidate involved, and this is not a solicitation of support, it is only an effort to make RfA discussions better (for more information see user:ShortJason/Publicity). Thank you in advance for your participation. ShortJason 19:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Wow, great userpage. Looks like you spent alot of time on it. --Lewk_of_Serthic _contrib ^talk 19:31, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] rainbow picture

Hi, I'm sorry but I removed your image from Cattle, for reasons discussed at Talk:Cattle#Images, even though I do like the picture from an artistic point of view. (This is just to let you know; any discussion is best on the article talk page.) Arbitrary username 11:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

SushiGeek 06:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC) (P.S. I'll create the page after you accept.)

[edit] Adminship

Your page is ready. Just answer the questions, and when you do please update the ending time to be one week after you accepted (in UTC). Also, add the page to the RfA page at the top of the nomination list. SushiGeek 06:30, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

Few questions (I may copy your answers to the main RFA page if I feel they are relevant to others):

1) Why do you have an external link in your signature, despite being asked not to (see this message that you received) and it being regarded as spam (see WP:SPAM#How_not_to_be_a_spammer point 7)?

Whoops! I seriously had no idea there was any official guidelines saying not to add an external link to your sig! I thought Sj's commnet was more on the aesthetic value of having the link! My mistake! I've now removed it.

2) Do you not view edit summaries as important for all pages?

I think there is a point when they are not important, although I admit I probably am guilty of having crossed the point a fair few times.

3) More fundamentally, you show very little experience with areas admins deal with except for images. Would you actively avoid these 'other areas' (such as vandal fighting, blocking, page protection, afd closing etc)? How would you react if as an admin someone asks you 'please block this user': under what circumstances would you block?

I certainly would not actively avoid these areas, although I can't say at the moment I'd actively pursue them either. If anyone request me to block a user I would of course do something about it. That would obviously involve analysing the basis of the request and reaching a decision. I think that for the first few occaisions (until I have more experience) I'd probably ask a more experienced admin (unless it is an obvious case) for advice before taking any action.

Sorry if the above sounds like an interrogation. I'm in no way trying to put down your great contributions to Wikipedia, and I have no problem with admins who don't have full experience in every aspect of Wikipedia (i.e. if you want to be an 'image admin' that's fine by me), as long as I am convinced no damage will be done elsewhere. Petros471 08:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem, happy to answer them. I most certainly hope that I will never do any damage with administrator privileges. I think though, as I mentioned in the first question of the RFA, that most of my sysop chores would be to do with images. So yes, if you want to look it that way, I would like to be an 'image admin' - of course I may expand to other area's as I go. Thanks for the questions! --Fir0002 09:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Fir0002/Archive 5, thank you for participating in my RfA. It passed with an amazingly unopposed 77/0/1. Thanks for the support everybody! If you see me doing anything wrong, want to ask me something, or just want to yell in my general direction, leave me a note on my talk page. I promise to try and knock out Wikipedia's problems wherever I may find them!

Staxringold _talk^contribs 20:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please enable your email

User:GHe has just pointed that out on your RFA. Normally I'd automatically oppose an RFA with no email enabled. So please set a valid one and confirm it via your preferences (in case you're wondering why, it's so blocked users can contact you while they are blocked, or for other reasons you might be called on as an admin when talk pages can't be used). Cheers, Petros471 21:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photo website

I noticed your photo website, its pretty slick, have you made many wikipedia related sales? -Ravedave 02:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Your vote on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snail-WA

I supported your edit. Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 10:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tambo River photo

I've added your photo to an article. Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 10:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Snail Picture

OK, I've updated my vote. it's right below my previous one now. Bonus Onus 16:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newton ring image

Hi! I noticed that you have the same scanner used to get an image of Newton's rings as this guy (see the "Lovely Newton ring example").

It happens when the the scanner is cold or something, I am hoping you have an example that you could upload. If you are too busy or don't have an example don't worry about :-) --Commander Keane 23:03, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Closing FPCs

Hi Fir0002. I saw your comment in your RfA about closing FPCs. Anybody can close them--you don't need admin powers :). I think Veledan has been doing a lot recently because he wrote a short script that made it really easy. Good luck on your RfA! ~MDD4696 01:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AWNB#Australia-related_FPs

Hi Fir,

I'm certain you know your back catalogue better than I do; perhaps you have some suggestions here? Thanks, pfctdayelise (translate?) 09:35, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wow...

You deserve this for sure.

A barnstar for your sweet userpage. I'm in awe. -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 06:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)