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[edit] Gulls - reply

Hi. Apologies for the delayed reply, I've been away. The picture I removed looks like an adult Western Gull of the paler northern form. It has a very heavy bill and a wide white band across the secondary-tips. It's not in the right part of the world for a Herring Gull, which is a European species. I'm not too sure about the immature bird - you could try asking for advice from WP:BIRDS. All the best. SP-KP (talk) 16:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saltbox
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Your image, Image:Saltbox Concord 2.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 02:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/JFK Presidential Library
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Your image, Image:JFK library Stitch Crop.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 04:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Istockphoto

Hi Fcb,
Yeah I wouldn't be that comfortable going into too many specifics in public, email me using the "e-mail this user" button on my userpage and I'll give you a few details. You may also want to contact Diliff as he has an account as well. --Fir0002 07:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar thanks

Thanks! howcheng {chat} 00:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Canada Goose feeding
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Your image, Image:Canada goose reflection 03.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 04:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help with a pano

Hey, I was wondering if you could help me with a pano that I'm having trouble with. Here is my best effort: Image:SeattleWaterfrontPano.jpg. I put the original images on my smugmug page here. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cacophony (talk) 03:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'm using PTGui and I wasn't aware that you could set line control points. . I'll give it another go and maybe actually RTFM. (I hear you on the older computer being crippled by stitching programs. I had to free up 9GB of HD space before I could even begin the stitch.) And thanks for the tip about vignetting, your help is much appreciated. Cacophony (talk) 06:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FPC notification

Hello Fcb981

You showed interest in a picture that was up to peer review. Just want to draw your attention to that it is now up as a fpc. Just go to the fpc site and it will be on the top, or close to PureRumble 18:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FP Comments

You made a comment about my image regarding color saturation. While I generally agree that over-saturation is a problem, your assessment of my image does not match reality. The point of this image is that the color is real and strongly matched exactly what that flower looked like on that day. It was shot on a bright sunny summer day with the sun just behind my back and the bright blue sky as the background for the picture. I had to shoot up from about 6" off the ground. In any case, the shot, taken with my Nikon D50 on its default color settings, is conservative in its color saturation (less than most point-and-shoots). It is ironic that you mention Ken Rockwell, because his biggest complaint about Nikon is this lower-saturation behavior. -- RM 04:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Featured sounds

I noticed that you have participated in Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates in the past. There are now two candidates and the project appears to be abandoned. If you could look at the candidates and vote it would be appreciated. Zginder (talk) (Contrib) 00:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FPC Again

Hi, Sorry to bother you once more, but since you took the time to help me choose a candidate for FPC from my tortoise pictures, I would like to request you to please vote for the picture here. Thanks again for your help.

Regards, Muhammad(talk) 17:15, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Our weekly COTW message from WPOR

Welcome to another wonderful world of WP:ORE COTW. Thanks again to those who lent a hand improving Pinto Colvig and Cooper Spur ski area this past week or so. This week we return to the High importance Stubs, with the mighty Seal of Oregon and former governor and legal superstar Sylvester Pennoyer. To opt out of these messages, or suggest an article, swing by here. Or to stop receiving any WPORE messages just remove your name from the list of members at WP:ORE. Auf Wiedersehen. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Quick Question...

Hi Fcb,
Sorry for the delay but yeah busy with uni. To answer your question - I'm not sure what it's like in the version you're using but I've got v4.3 of ACR and in that between the "save image" and "open image" there's a bit of blue text with "Adobe RGB (1998); 8 bit; 3504 x 2336 (8.2MP); 72 ppi" written on it. Click on that and you'll get a dialog where you can change it. Regards, --Fir0002 09:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Old Buildings and Pictures

Greetings from WP:WikiProject Oregon. Blah blah blah. This week we have our semi-annual Picture Drive and a article creation drive for the NRHP List. For the picture drive, go take a picture, or find a free use one (lots of links to gov sites above) and upload it Wikipedia. For the National Register of Historic Places, find a red link on the main Oregon list or one of the county lists at start a new article. If its more than just a stub, don’t forget to nominate it for a DYK! Once again, to opt out or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 20:02, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Various featured picture candidacies
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:Image-Grand central Station Outside Night 2.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 08:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:Tug Boat NY 1.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 08:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 14 OR COTW

Hello again or welcome if you are new to WP:WikiProject Oregon! Last week we did a picture drive and a NRHP creation drive. It’s hard to track the picture results, but I know I saw quite a few pictures added, so great job. With NRHP we added 7 that I saw: Mitchell Recreation Area, Salem First United Methodist Church, Portland City Hall, Crater Lake Lodge, Central Library (Portland, Oregon), Watchman Lookout Station, and Alvin T. Smith House; with most now nominated for DYK’s! So great work everybody.

This week, its back to stubs with one of the largest newspapers in the state, The Register-Guard, and a request with Oregon Coast. Feel free to help with either one, and the paper article is so short a DYK should be pretty easy to get (just need 5X expansion). As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:00, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vera Katz and History

Howdy folks, its time for another installment of WikiProject Oregon’s Collaboration of the Week! Last week we made some improvements to the Oregon Coast and brought The Register-Guard up to B class while garnering a DYK! Great job to those who lent a hand. This week we finish up the High priority Stubs with former mayor and Speaker of the House, Vera Katz, which is pretty much a Start class now and could easily get to B class. We also have History of Oregon by request. Help out if you can, where you can. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chester Cathedral

Hi there - remember this FIC? I went back - reshot it all in 13 frames with 4 different exposures, tonemapped each, stitched and then cropped and corrected colour balance. I'd be very grateful if you would take a look and let me know what you think of its chances at FIC before i resubmit. Many thanks. --Joopercoopers (talk) 00:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Elected Oregon

Hello fellow WikiProject Oregon folks and entities. Thanks to those who helped out with improving Vera Katz and History of Oregon during the last Collaboration of the Week! As you may have noticed, we have changed the banners a bit, but not our dedication to everything Oregon! This week, in honor of the political process, we have: Current Oregon Senate members & Current Oregon House members. Hopefully by November we can have an article on every current member of the Oregon Legislature. So feel free to turn a red link blue or expand an existing article. Since it is an election year, there should be plenty of newspaper stories. Plus, the state archives has this site that allows you to go back and see when they started serving and district info, plus at a minimum show they were a state legislator from a WP:RS. And per WP:BIO, all state legislator's are notable so no need to worry about AFD. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Hi Eric, just wanted to say you're doing a great job with your photos. Keep up the good work and you'll be like User:Diliff in no time :) --gren グレン 21:29, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

That is very kind of you to say. If I were to credit my involvement in wikipedia to something, I would have to say it is Diliff. I still have a ways to go (something like 40 more FPs) to be able to compare myself to Diliff, but thanks all the same, your comment means alot. I'll see you around the 'pedia. =) -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 22:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Maya

Your FPC of El Caracol came just a few days after I watched a great show on NOVA about the Maya alphabet. You can download it: Cracking the Maya Code. Regarding my photos, I just bought Photoshop CS3, so I'm spending a lot of time learning new stuff and fixing some old photos that I could never get right. I just sold 3 framed photos (I made the frames as well) and I'm planning on using the proceeds on a helicopter ride around Portland for some aerial photography. I'm glad to hear that you have a lot of stuff going on. I look forward to seenig more high quality photos from you. Thanks, Cacophony (talk) 05:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/El Caracol observatory temple
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Your image, Image:Chichen Itza Observatory 2 1.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 10:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Juxtaposition COTW

Howdy Ho WikiProject Oregon! Time for another installment of Collaboration of the Week. The last few weeks we’ve knocked out quite a few articles of our current state legislators, and even a few former ones too. Great job to all those who helped make it happen. On a related note, we have had several DYKs from this and now have 53 DYKs so far this year (not counting multiples), less than four full months into the year. Last year we had a total of 83 DYKs for the entire year, and 7 combined for 2006 & 2005. So we are well on our way to another record year. Each time an article makes it to the main page as a DYK it will typically get an extra 1000 hits, which is usually far more than the typical 100 hits per month most minor articles receive. With that said, this week we have two requests, Portland Lumberjax and Silicon Forest. As always, to opt out, opt in, or suggest future collaborative efforts, click here. Aboutmovies (talk) 03:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May I ask you, please?

Dear Fcb981,
If it would create no problems for your contributions on Wikipedia, may I please ask you to stop bringing up my name and to provide links to my old votes? May I please ask you just to leave me alone, if of course it is not too much to ask for? Thank you very much for understanding.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POTD notification

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Hi Eric,

Just to let you know that the Featured Pictures Image:Saltbox Concord 2.jpg and Image:JFK library Stitch Crop.jpg are due to make appearances as Picture of the Day on May 6 and May 8, 2008 respectively. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the captions at Template:POTD/2008-05-06 and Template:POTD/2008-05-08. howcheng {chat} 05:20, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/El Castillo
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:El Castillo Stitch 2008 Edit 2.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 09:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)


P.S. it's fallen out of Chichen Itza but I added it to El Castillo, Chichen Itza. MER-C 09:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cinco de COTW

Greetings once again from the Collaboration of the Week at WikiProject Oregon. Thank you to those who helped out with the last set of articles. This week we have the lone Stub class article left in the Top importance classification, Flag of Oregon, and by request, Detroit Lake. Help where you can, if you can. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here. Adios. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:07, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zzzz Oregon COTW

Howdy ya’ll, time for another Collaboration of the Week from WikiProject Oregon. Last week we improved Flag of Oregon & Detroit Lake, enough I think to move them to Start class, so great job everyone! This week, we have another request in Oregon Ballot Measure 47 and a randomly selected two sentence stub that should be easy to expand enough for a DYK in Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Valued Pictures Proposal

Hi Fcb. Thanks for your comments and vote when this went through FPC talk. There was a pretty clear consensus for Option 2 which involved setting up the project here. I have developed a trial version at User:Jjron/VP Trial. I have put up a discussion at PPR talk - Wikipedia_talk:Picture_peer_review#Valued_Pictures_Proposal for comments. Feel free to drop by and give your thoughts (no trolling though ;-)). --jjron (talk) 17:07, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] QWERTY: Oregon COTW

Hello WikiProject Oregon participants, time for another edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week we made some great improvements to Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and Oregon Ballot Measure 47 (1996), with a DYK for the forest. Great job everyone! This week we have another stub, George Lemuel Woods, one of only two governor stubs left, and should be an easy job getting it to Start class. Then, in honor of the long weekend, we have our second State Park Article Creation Drive. Lots of red links to turn blue, lots of opportunities for DYKs. Help if you can, even if it is only adding pictures of state parks. To opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. May the The Schwartz be with you. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:28, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] X marks the WPOR COTW spot

Guten Tag WikiProject Oregon team members! Great job last week with the Collaboration of the Week, we improved George Lemuel Woods and added eleven new state park articles. This past week we also surpassed the 6000 article mark as a project. The weather may suck, but WPORE is not. For this week we have by request Music of Oregon and Phil Knight. Both need some help, and with Knight we might be able to improve it to GA standards. Once again, to opt out of these messages, leave your name here, or click here to make a suggestion. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A is for Apple at COTW

Hello again to those of the WikiProject we call Oregon. Time for another edition of Collaboration of the Week. Last week there was some good improvements to Music of Oregon and Phil Knight, great job everyone. This week, by request is the Applegate Trail, which is short enough to easily conjure up a DYK. Then, I’m trying something a little different, with the Portland State stuff. We included the two high profile schools during Civil War week last year, so now its time for the younger sibling that gets no respect to get some attention. After all, it is the largest college in the state. Feel free to help with whatever aspects you like, though to help with some ideas I added some to the article talk page. Click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Nana na na, hey hey hey, goouud byeeee. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:10, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POTD notification

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Hi Eric,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Canada goose reflection 03.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 18, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-06-18. howcheng {chat} 05:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)