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I love your photos! -- Travis Thurston+ 05:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
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I am happy to see you here again. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 17:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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I award this Barnstar to Mila for all of the countless beautiful images of hers that are gracing so many biology-related articles! Invertzoo ( talk) 22:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC) |
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Hi Mila, the shells under the rocks are a species of Isognomon, Isognomonidae, a cousin of the pearl oysters, but as yet I don't know which species it is. There is a similar species in the Caribbean that also lives under rocks like that. The Papua New Guinea image is fantastic! What colors! What shapes! And yes of course you deserve the Barnstar: you are a fountain of great images. Invertzoo ( talk) 19:02, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for all that you do! Royal broil 00:47, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Image:Albino Alligator.jpg? I think this could be Fp material with some editing. — Ceran♦ (Sing) 21:46, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mila, I put one of your beautiful new images into the taxobox of this article. best to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 14:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome! Just now I made a stub for Isognomon so that I could put both pics in there, and also put the pretty worm picture into Spirobranchus giganteus. Invertzoo ( talk) 00:20, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Mila, Nice image of a snail that we did not have represented on WP yet. I just now created a stub for subfamily Vasinae for that image. But I might have to ask the Graphics Lab to crop the image so people can see the snail better. Thanks again, I always like to see what you have seen! I assume you turned the snail over yourself? Invertzoo ( talk) 14:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
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BorgQueen ( talk) 02:08, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mila,
I remember your remarkable story of the Kleenex - or whatever blowfish commercial in the London tube, where you got some compensation for unattributed derived work of a photo of yours. I would like to share with you a slightly less remarkable, I had two weeks ago in Greenland, see here. It has some similarities with your story although not as striking. But nevertheless, since it was in Greenland, and I know you have been there, I thought you would be interested...
I, and many other Commons users are of course still hoping that, one day, you start uploading your images to Commons again. It may be that you do not fancy COM:FPC, but you have loads of valuable material, which all the other Wikipedias and Commons projects never even see because it is only on en. It is such pity that you do not upload them there?
Cheers,
-- Slaunger ( talk) 22:15, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, with regard to this image you uploaded to Wikipedia, do I have your permission to upload a version with a straightened horizon to Commons? Regards, — BillC talk 21:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I wouldn't call myself an expert on the physics of the matter. At first glance the image would appear to be CA. However assuming the picture was not a crop of a larger frame then the direction that the colours fringe would depend on which edge of the frame you look at (see attached image) and would tend to worsen at the edges. In the picture you sent me the blue is consistantly at the top and the red is at the bottom, which suggests it may be some effect due to changing Refractive indices with respect to wavelength from the water or air. Against this argument is the other version which doesn't clearly exhibit the same effect (though this may be due to lack of zoom). There is some clipping in the image, which can cause colour bleeding, but the effect is consistant in unclipped areas. My conclusion on the matter would depend on how the 2094×984 pixels were cropped from the original 3888×2592 or so Noodle snacks ( talk) 01:14, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mila! Oh yes that is useful, thanks. I believe that the species of clam that the sea otter is eating is an invasive species introduced from the East Coast, Mya arenaria, the soft-shell clam, so I put one of the images in that article. By the way, if you are still in the area and if you know one of the park service naturalists, can you ask them whether they know if the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria has been recorded from their part of the coast? It lives buried in mud on mud flats. Invertzoo ( talk) 15:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
I also wanted to say: wow, all the amazing things you have seen! You are very fortunate. Invertzoo ( talk) 15:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi again Mila, OK, I had to look it up, but I guess there might be someone at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve who would know (perhaps). I could try to call them and ask I guess. To answer your question about "amazing things", it is just that you have been to so many different places on dry earth and under the water, and you have seen so many different very, very beautiful things, in the sea, on the land and in the sky. Wow. When I look at your photos I see what you have seen, and I am blown away. Part of it is that you know how to "look" ... which most of us don't know, but another part is that you and your camera have been to some really beautiful places. As for the yellow crab, yes that was clever of you to notice that: it is a pea crab, also see [1]. These little crabs live inside a lot of bivalves, They don't seem to do much damage and were considered to be symbiotic. Apparently now they are considered to be parasitic, however there is no real citation for that piece of information, but even if it is true, the clams I have seen that had pea crabs in them appeared to be perfectly healthy, so the damage must only be very mild. So I should put one of the images in the pea crab article too! Great! Best wishes to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 21:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Until a sea otter gets the host.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 01:12, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Mila, Yes, I was having a lot of difficulty working out how many clams there were. At first I thought three, and then I started to think maybe it was only two. I wonder: do you think she must have brought one up in her mouth and one in each paw? I don't know how sea otters do these things. Invertzoo ( talk) 18:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Ah what a great image! This image shows exceptionally well the byssus threads of the mussel. I think it has recently spun them, because they are so whitish rather than brown. The byssus is secreted by a mussel and is used to anchor itself to a solid substrate. The threads are not alive, they are more like hair or nails. The byssus threads are very strong and very elastic, as you will find out if you ever try to pull a mussel off of a rock. The round end of each thread is very strongly glued onto the rock, and each thread is strong and elastic. The waves can break very hard against the rock but the mussel will still be OK and will not be washed off. I will put your image onto the byssus article and onto the mussel article! Thanks that's a very useful image. You will see I could not find a good image of mussel and byssus for the byssus article. My back is a little better. Thanks all round! Invertzoo ( talk) 21:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Mila, Was this taken at Ocean Beach, San Francisco? Because there is also an Ocean Beach in San Diego. Thanks. Invertzoo ( talk) 22:49, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Re your message: I looked into this IP a bit more closely and it appears to be a shared IP for a high school in New York. I've tagged the talk page with a shared IP notice. I agree that the IP has not made many constructive edits recently, but the IP has not edited in over a week, so blocking is not necessary at this time. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 18:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, just an infomration: I have cropped one of your photos File:Conus pennaeus attacks pair of Cymatium sp.jpg to see the objects in detail. Your photos are very nice. -- Snek01 ( talk) 11:06, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Mila. I meant to put that image back in, but could not locate it, so just now I did so at what I think is an appropriate point. You see, in the article as a whole I wanted to emphasize the original meaning of seashells: shells as they are found washed up on the beach (and thus tend to be a bit old, sun-bleached and beachworn) rather than the kind of fancy-looking exotic shells that were originally purchased (and before that were live-collected for the shell trade). The international shell trade is mostly very problematic in terms of its ecological impact, as almost all the shells that are for sale are "harvested" by being live-collected in huge amounts, repeatedly. This process often permanently damages the local marine ecosystems, has made several species endangered, and also exploits the local people who are paid next to nothing for their labors. Yes, I wish the image of the group of English shells was a lot higher res, but I was searching for images of groups of shells that were all collected in one area, preferably on one beach, and which thus reflects the biodiversity of a local fauna. These kind of natural groupings are known as "death assemblages" and are very interesting to biologists. All best wishes to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 19:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Well my goodness, you really have found a great selection of shells in your time! I apologize for thinking they were store-bought. I did correct the caption. If you mean the long shell in the middle which is sort of t-shaped, it is Malleus malleus, the black hammer oyster. That's a nice find. It is reasonably common in the Indo-Pacific, but they usually get broken up. We do need an image of that. I don't blame you for being ticked off with WP, it's hard to deal with, giving great stuff and then seeing it treated as if it were just another resource. Best to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
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It sure is gorgeous, but I have no idea what it is, and do not even know where to start looking in order to identify it. I am not good at fish really but I could maybe ask Geronimo who might have some idea maybe. I am assuming it was a tropical saltwater aquarium? Do you know what part of the world the fish came from? Invertzoo ( talk) 21:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila, Yes I think they are for sure alive, but my guess would be that they are colonies of cyanobacteria, or some such thing, rather than animals. A lot of interesting species of microorganisms live in volcanic hot springs. I will try to think if there is anyone I can ask about this. Invertzoo ( talk) 19:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you have been uploading some images to the page on the Israel-Gaza conflict. Could you please provide some additional sources for these images. What protest do they document? Why is this protest notable? Which mainstream media sources reported on it. These issues were raised in the talk page. I wont remove the images right now, but if someone else does, please answer these questions on the talk page before you put the images back. thanks a lot Jacob2718 ( talk) 14:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
You must know by now that there is an editing war going on in this article. BE Bold!!-- Tomtom9041 ( talk) 20:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks for your image contribution to the Crow Instability article. The reason I post here is regarding your comment that the image posted was not of the Crow Instability. I do research work on the Crow Instability and vortex moderlling at University, and I am nearly 100% certain the image was indeed of the Crow Instability (Showing all stages!). However i'm happy with the image you uploaded, as it complements the article very well!
Thanks again.
Captaincoxy ( talk) 23:01, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
That's not a problem! The donut shapes are indeed a part of the Crow Instability (Although strictly speaking, they're a byproduct of the instability, as the instability ends when the two wingtip vortices connect), and your picture is a good example of those. I think your image is great where it is, and I may include mine further down the page!
Cheers.
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Hi Mbz1,
After a quick browse through the history of Sunset I've noticed you've previously edited the page. Your input is now requested in choosing a new lead picture here. Thanks for your time, -- Fir0002 00:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Please be cautious of WP:3RR? Even if you don't make 3 reverts in a 24-hour period, you could still risk being blocked for edit-warring. FYI, -- El on ka 21:27, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, could you add more details on this pic you took? Like where it was taken, what particular beach (if possible), whether the turtle had just lain eggs, etc. Great pic, btw...it's rare to catch one of these babies on shore. Shrumster ( talk) 18:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Will do shortly. I may ask a favor back if I ever do any featured pictures, since you seem to be pretty good at those. :-D - Running On Brains 17:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila, I wanted to ask you, of that group of shells, almost all of which you collected yourself all over the world, which shell was the one that you did not collect? Was it the nautilus? Or another one? Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 13:54, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info Mila. Do you mean the spiny one at the top left, or the spiny one at the bottom left? Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 01:23, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Also:
I went through the whole thing working with the grammar and so on. I might take another look through it tomorrow too. It certainly is an interesting phenomenon. Invertzoo ( talk) 01:23, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
P.S. If you need help merging the old intro with your new intro, just ask me. Put your new one up and I have a copy of the old intro on one of my drafting pages, I will merge the old intro into the new one for you if you like. Invertzoo ( talk) 16:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
Mila, because you know so much about unusual atmospheric phenomena, I thought I should show you this post I got on my talk page. So far I have done nothing in reply to it:
"Hi InvertZoo
"I saw you edited part of the "Ball Lightning" entry in wikipedia I have rare pictures of this phenomena taken in Sassalbo (MS) ITALY If you want to add these pictures on the Wiki page you can contact me at gianlucafurno@libero.it
"Regards "Gianluca Furno (mshadow65) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mshadow65 ( talk • contribs) 10:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC) "
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Hi Susan, I took the two images yesterday: File:Nudibranch in california tide pools 2.jpg and File:Nudibranch in california tide pools 1.jpg. Nudibranch was really small - around 5 millimeters. Thank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 20:39, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila, I am by no means a nudibranch expert, but I looked it up, and to me this looks as if it might well be a very small juvenile of the yellow phase of Triopha maculata. There is a (not very good) image of a tiny orange one at: [2] and pictures of some orange phase ones without spots at [3]. Invertzoo ( talk) 21:22, 5 February 2009 (UTC) P.S. If you like I will put one of them in the Triopha maculata article. It's good to have an image of a small juvenile. Invertzoo ( talk) 01:54, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, Susan! if you beleve the article will benefit from adding the image please do post it.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 05:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Mila, I did go through your new article a couple of times this evening, fixing it up as best as I could. I will look at it again tomorrow. best to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 02:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for putting me on the DYK submission. Please feel free to call on me again if you want the prose improving on any articles. Invertzoo ( talk) 01:15, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I didn't ment that the rainbow was out of place. It just doesn't look natural there. I know, rainbows can appear under many situations, however, rainbows look better when in its natural conditions (when it rains in a sunny location). Anyways, I prefer the original. However, I had to oppose because the event was not described in many details in any of the articles. Zoo Fari 23:17, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. The references look better now, but the best thing to do with references is to include info on things like the date it was produced, the date you accessed it, the author, the title, etcetera. This way we can avoid a lot of the problems associated with link rot, that is that the websites referred to disappears or changes location. For the best ways of providing all this information in an in-line citation go to Wikipedia:Citation templates and follow the instructions there. Best of luck. Manxruler ( talk) 20:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
It's no problem. :) I do appreciate your thanks. If you feel the need to give some tangible, then barnstars are always welcome. Manxruler ( talk) 04:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking in particular of your shark images. I rather get the impression that the contrast issues may be a scanning problem more than anything. Are you sure that your film can't be scanned better? Noodle snacks ( talk) 04:04, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila, I have been keeping up with what is happening there, and I think that in reality you still have a chance with the DYK, using the 2nd alternate hook about the "highest point in Brittany". No-one other than Hassocks5489 has weighed in the submission yet, but if someone else does look at it, they may approve it today.
If it happens that you do write another article at some point, please go ahead and ask me for input on possible hooks before you submit it or them. I can probably help you avoid getting hung up like this by smoothing the prose and avoiding any difficult hook content. Mentioning the content of a legend in a hook is very tricky, the wording has to be just so, and in general maybe it is easier to stick to purely factual things for a DYK hook. Even if this article does not make DYK, it still is a very interesting and useful article to have on WP, so all is by no means lost. All good wishes to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 15:58, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I saw that you added back your DYK nom of Parc naturel régional d'Armorique. I removed it because it is already in the queue to be uploaded, although the hook may have been revised. Rlendog ( talk) 17:11, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Yes, Mila, it is in queue number 4 at [4]. That means it has been OK'ed and will be used. It is in the queue waiting to be used. Invertzoo ( talk) 17:34, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm not Anonymous Dissident ;) I'm not very good with the new format of DYK, I'm afraid, so I'm pretty clueless as to what to do. GARDEN 20:38, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but we get lots more picture hooks than we can feature, and I see no particular reason why your pic should be featured in preference to somebody's else's. Gatoclass ( talk) 03:13, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Susan, I made mistake in the hook of this latest DYK. When I found out about this, it was too late to change. It was on the main page already. But now I believe it should be changed. Please, when you have a time take a look here and tell me what you think. Thank you for your time.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 18:01, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Well I think it is not really a problem. It was the fault of the source, not your fault. These things happen. I just now altered the prose so it takes this new information into consideration as you will see: Parc naturel régional d'Armorique#Mont Saint-Michel de Brasparts and the Chapel of Saint-Michel
Invertzoo ( talk) 18:43, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
You are welcome Mila. I like to help out on Wikipedia. Best, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:10, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Just so you know, this VPC candidate has been replaced with a new version. While the new version is better, it's different, therefore not what you voted on to begin with. Just playin' it safe. :-) ~ ωαdεstεr16 «talk stalk» 05:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I love your work on Wikipedia! Could you explain how File:Soap bubble sky.jpg was taken? It looks to me as though the sky is actually being refracted through the bubble, and you can see a fainter image of the actual reflection. If the sky is the reflection, it must have been a very difficult shot from above! (and I would have expected a reflection of your camera to appear at the very centre) Cheers, Bigbluefish ( talk) 14:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila, I was away traveling all yesterday from dawn to dusk, and now I am back there is a great deal of stuff going on on WP that I need to attend to right away plus I am a bit tired. So I will not get around to looking at and fixing up your article for maybe a few days, but I will get around to it eventually. This week will be a bit crazy for me in real life too, so we will have to see how much I get done in general, Best, Invertzoo ( talk) 17:00, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I had to shorten the hook you submitted because it was way too long (too many characters). I see someone else wrote an alternate, which also seems OK. Best, Invertzoo ( talk) 22:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Where exactly is it Mila? I couldn't find it. Link it for me if you wouldn't mind. Invertzoo ( talk) 21:06, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
I can type a little bit, not very much though: I have to be careful. You can at least tell me where the article is. best, Invertzoo ( talk) 14:37, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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Where is the steam devil in this? Is it the semi-circle hanging in mid-air? Sorry for removing it, I missed that on first sight. Do you mind if I arrow the relevant part of the image? SpinningSpark 00:32, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks Mila, that is very kind of you! You know I always enjoy looking at your shell images. And yes, they are all interesting to me, thank you. And some I will be able to place in articles also. Best wishes to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 13:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
OK I will have a go at it. Where is it? Invertzoo ( talk) 12:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi again. The prose is pretty good now I think. But I think that to make the hook acceptable for a DYK, you need to show a reference for the sentence: "Some historians however believe that the subject of this famous portrait is not Petter Dass at all, but the clergyman Oluf Mentzen Darre." And the citation needs to be inserted right after that sentence. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 01:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Well it did not make DYK, but it is a nice article nonetheless. Next time please ask me to look over the hook before you post it on DYK, I might be able to get an article like that accepted as a DYK by just writing a different hook before you submit it or giving an alternate hook or whatever. Best wishes to you, Invertzoo ( talk) 15:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I do not mind cleaning up prose on anyone's article, and certainly I do not mind doing it on any of yours. Don't feel badly about that, it's no problem to me. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 00:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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I forsee one difficulty with the hook: in the article you say (my emphasis): "It almost looks as if Dartmoor kistvaens were positioned in such a way that the deceased were facing the sun.[2]
Which is quite tentative, whereas in the hook you currently have (my emphasis): "...in such a way that the deceased were facing the sun".
Which is quite definite. The hook and the bit in the article need to be identical in meaning. What does it say exactly about this in the book you are using as a reference? I could not tell where to look.
Thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 19:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
P.S. If the book is tentative about this point, then you could say in the hook: "...in such a way that the deceased appear to be facing the sun". Minus the italics of course.
Invertzoo ( talk) 19:41, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Looks like it got in OK this time, using the Alt hook. Invertzoo ( talk) 12:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
This one got in too, with a very slight re-write. Invertzoo ( talk) 12:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
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Just so you know, there's a proposed replacement. wadester 16 20:05, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Mila, I wanted to show you this image if you didn't see it before which looks weird and appears to show an inversion layer near the horizon. I assume there is some kind of odd optical effect going on but I don't know which kind? Chicago is 50 miles away and the photo is taken at beach level. Best, Invertzoo ( talk) 14:51, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Susan. Thank you for your message. This phenomenon is not considered to be a mirage. There's no inverted images are present as much as I could see. I believe it is looming and/or towering. Please take a look at my image: The image was composed out of the three frames taken from the same place of the same place (
Farallon Islands). The difference in the appearance was kindly explained by
Dr. Andy Young:
"Mila has an illustration, containing 3 different views of the south-east Farallons with different refraction conditions: the top image shows just looming; the middle, looming with towering; and the bottom, a 5-image mirage, with the uppermost erect image severely stooped. These pictures were taken at heights of 40 to 66 meters on Point Lobos, near the Cliff House (San Francisco). The nominal distance to the sea horizon from a height of 40 meters is just about halfway to these islands and rocks, so only their parts above about 40 m height should be visible. An eye height of about 150 m would be required to put the sea horizon at the islands, assuming standard refraction. Even from 66 m, the lower peaks, such as Seal Rock (the isolated feature at the left of the photographs), which is 25 m high, should be almost completely hidden. However, a picture taken from a ship near the islands shows that everything is visible in Mila's pictures, even the low flats a meter or two above the sea. So looming is present in all the pictures taken from San Francisco."
If you are interested to learn more about phenomenon,
here's the page to read. Maybe one day I'll try to write a short article about that phenomenon, and then once again I might ask for your help with English. :) Best wishes.--
Mbz1 (
talk) 14:27, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
OK, Geronimo did the article on this fish. Check it out. Best, Invertzoo ( talk) 15:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
I have blocked your account indefinitely per this request on ANI. Either you truly do want to be indefinitely blocked for personal reasons, or your account has been compromised - either way, an indefinite block is warranted. However, I declined to protect your talk page or disable your email. Tan | 39 19:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila!
Great photos of cleaner wrasses at work. (Just where in Kona were they taken, btw?). I've captioned the two that didn't have captions, but have a couple of suggestions. I'm not an expert, just a long-time avid snorkeller, but I believe all the cleaner wrasses shown are Hawaiian cleaner wrasses - I've never heard them called rainbow. Also, the fish you identify as a dragon wrasse is the one I know as a rockmover wrasse. Its young were formerly misidentified as a separate species and named dragon wrasse, but that's no longer current as far as I know. I propose to make those changes unless you have an objection.
Best, Awien ( talk) 19:31, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Shark has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 04:52, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Comment: This picture has been filtered, I should say too much. On the other hand changing that I-totally-faked-my-sky effect will reduce a lot the attention over the clouds and sky. I suggest cropping a good deal from below (almost before the woods) while leaving the sky that way. The reason is that in this picture the viewer is attracted both to the first plane and the clouds. This dichotomy is subconsciously uncomfortable for the viewer. You can see that there are two hard lines in the picture (the horizon and the one right after the foreground and before the woods) that divide the picture in three bands. The first and the third are highlighted in the picture while the middle (the woods) is not. The viewer's attention is split in two. Try now covering with your hand the foreground. All the attention is gathered by the clouds. At this point (after the cropping) I would try the filter of the sky in a more subtle way. The better composition now brings the sky as the point of attention without the need of 'touching' so much the colors. Maybe a little 'touching' is good but if people are noticing it is because it was too much. This is an example that tells us once again that cropping and good composition are far better strategies to get a good picture through edition than filters. Blurring is also quite useful but this picture (I think) doesn't require it. I hope this is useful Frank cheValier on a Pc ( talk) 17:23, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Susan, May I please ask, if you will be available to correct my English in the article I am going to write today or tomorrow? Thank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 14:16, 20 September 2009 (UTC) p.s. Here it is w:Saint-Savin, Hautes-PyrénéesThank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 18:12, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I'm requesting input the most active editors in this article, yourself included, regarding an edit dispute. I added the infobox template:Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel (which I recently created) to relevant articles, including this one. User:RomaC has removed the infobox, arguing that the image on it is emotive. Your input would be welcome and could prevent the situation from deteriorating into an edit war. Thanks, and good day, Jalapenos do exist ( talk) 12:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
I dont really want to get involved in the edit war thats going on between you and Axlq as i do not know that much about images or enough about the wind to comment, I have however have asked the Primary Author of the article to comment. Regards Jason Rees ( talk) 14:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Susan, may I please ask you, if the text of Wikipedia articles is copyrighted somehow? I mean, if it is OK, if I am to take a small portion of Wikipedia article and put it to my own article to be published in a magazine under my name? Thank you.-- Mbz1 ( talk) 17:06, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Mila, sorry to have reverted you earlier on. The wine articles are very specialised and the vineyard one describes the layout of the vines and various growing techniques, hence your image didn't make a very suitable lead. It wasn't just because it was my image you replaced, honest! It shows very mature grapes, so much so I was wondering if they must be raisin grapes; maybe ask at Wikiproject Wine for some pointers. November is certainly much later than I'd expect black grapes to be still on the vine. I'm sure there'll be a good home for the pic but hope you can understand that it's not really appropriate for vineyard. Best wishes, mikaul talk 05:01, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Mila, I am sorry that I took your image as example. I got involved in an analysis of the rules about verifiability, nature of the sources, ...etc. It is just that my instruction and profession deals with following very detailed rules in a strict manner. According to what I read in the pages that were given to me that part of the caption fitted as what I classified it. Although your images was a perfect example for what I was discussing in the talk page I should have only talk about it there and not write anything in the nomination. My mistake. I am very very sorry. Please please don't withdraw it. franklin.vp 04:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Please go see my response on the surfer image. Sorry about the poor wording, I forgot you were ESL. (English as a Second Language.)
I tried all ways but it just wouldn't fit at vineyard without removing your earlier one, which I think is a better vineyard shot. However it looks great at the geography/climate section of Napa Valley AVA. What do you think? mikaul talk 18:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Play fight of polar bears edit 1.avi.OGG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 25, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-11-25. howcheng { chat} 23:55, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
I agree, like you, I am not too sure about the format, but off-hand I can't think of a better way to display the image. Best wishes, Invertzoo ( talk) 18:43, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
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Your pictures are gorgeous. I know you've semi-retired but keep it up! King penguins are especially beautiful. :) -- HoopoeBaijiKite 04:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello Mila! I just finished watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and they make reference to the green flash phenomenon. Of course, in the film, the actual green flash is more of a green bomb, but that's Disney! Anyway, I remember ages ago seeing a nomination of your image of the green flash development, and it was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing, so I read about it. Ergo, understanding what the pirates of the Caribbean were talking about is something I can credit to you and your image. If it hadn't been for seeing your image, I'd have thought it was just a made up thing for the film! (Yes, such is my ignorance.) So, thanks, :-) Maedin\ talk 22:12, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I will write here the opinions you asked since I guess is not part of the nomination. Let me start saying that among the 5 images your choice for the nomination (the original) is the best. Alt2 is nice too but the original shows the erosion itself in a more dramatic way and also shows it uncut. In detail:
In general I am trying to encourage people to somehow put into the pictures more care in the way they choose to present the subjects/topics. A lot of the FPs (not all) are mostly boring portraits of their subjects. A frontal view of a mountain, a frontal view of a cricket, a frontal view of a building or town. I think, that even within the scope of an encyclopaedia, pictures (at least the featured ones) can have something else besides display of technical skills. Usually when taking a picture it is possible to make some choices that leave the trace of the active participation of the photographer in the image. Details that show that the photographer was there taking decisions. Usually elements in a photograph can be used to convey meaning and say things. Usually not literal things but little connections or ideas. For example, what I was saying about the fence... If its presence in the picture is deliberate then let it be in a way that is being in a role of fence, somehow interacting with the rest of the important parts of the image. Of course there are pictures and pictures. In pictures of unusual phenomenons there is no time to plan things, or in historical pictures, or in really difficult pictures. But in cases like this you can excel and make a really good product. When that happens, looking at the picture, you feel the presence of the photographer next to you, ready to ask you: Did you like this angle that I found? I would like to add examples of this:
It is true that sometimes the added thing can be done through unusual colors, tones, exposures, DOF,... and also true that sometimes it is not easy to come out with ideas like these. But is good to have them there, at hand, and be alert to catch them. My goal is really to try to encourage those of you that have good skills dealing with the settings of the cameras to produce pictures that are not only good in technical quality but also in this other dimension, which is nice as you see in the examples and is also important. After all we are talking about featured pictures. I am also trying to do so without causing damage (or causing as little as possible) in the current nominations. franklin 15:13, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot to say that although I don't know the place of the erosion picture and therefore I can not say anything certain, I believe that it is possible to get the fence into the image and having a role in the image not only being juxtaposed as an attachment in the corner. If not (IMO) it is better not include it since it becomes distraction. (Imagine the picture of the tower, above, but with the woman looking directly to the camera instead of looking to the tower. It happens the same effect. From being an integral part of the image becomes a distraction.) franklin 15:25, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mila,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 31, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-12-31. howcheng { chat} 01:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Mila,
People at FPC tend to kick up a fuss if you close noms with which you've been involved. I don't really want to be doing closing at all, but am only doing so because it seems no one else will do it. Makeemlighter and Maedin are doing the occasional closures of those I've been involved in when they are around, but otherwise they seem to just be getting left sitting around indefinitely; it's getting to the stage however where I will probably also need to be closing those I've taken part in, which will undoubtedly raise more complaints. Seems you get in trouble for closing on time and also if you leave them open, or for many other reasons when closing... :-) Happy New Year. -- jjron ( talk) 08:47, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Your
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File:Kingswear and the Dart s1.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.
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Hi Mila,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Steam Phase eruption of Castle geyser with double rainbow.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 16, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-01-16. howcheng { chat} 23:08, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. As I wrote in my edit summary, I removed the external link because it is a blog. Please see WP:ELNO, item 11. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 23:03, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Please self-revert on Israeli_West_Bank_barrier you are in violation of the three-revert rule. Respectfully, RomaC ( talk) 03:24, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
You are well past 3 reverts on that page, please do not continue edit-warring or you may be blocked from editing. nableezy - 04:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
{{
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