Hello, welcome to wikipedia, and please don't be put off by my comments! Many people paste in material from other web pages, which we can't allow, so we're always on the watch for that. Your Tillandsia made me think of care guides in gardening books, hence my suspicion. -- Tarquin 23:55 Jan 19, 2003 (UTC)

BTW, the talk system works like this: click on a user's name to go to their home page. Next click on the "discuss" link. This takes you to their User talk page -- like this one. Edit this to leave a message. I'll add something about this to the FAQ tomorrow -- did you look for an answer to this question, and if so, where (so I can put it where people will look) -- Tarquin

If you need help resizing or otherwise manipulating images, just post a note at the village pump asking for help. One of the best users for help with images is Lee Daniel Crocker, but he hasn't been around much since about October -- says he'll be back when he gets done settling into his new house (in California, U.S.) and the company he works for gets done with the first-of-the year tax info forms they send out (by the end of January). I can help with images in BMP, JPG, and sometimes PNG. Some of the users who post the most images use ones that are too big and/or otherwise unacceptable to a lot of us, and we spend a lot of our time fixing those (and then listening to them bitch about it), so I really appreciate your trying to find out how to do it right the first time. -- isis 08:50 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Can you have a quick look at talk:jumbo jet please. Mintguy 16:41 Feb 11, 2003 (UTC)

Nice Severn Bridge photos!! Well done. Nevilley

Nevilley, you are a gentleman! This is the first time anyone has written to me about my photos. There's quite a lot of work in preparing and uploading each pair of pics so your comment means a lot to me. I use an Olympus 3 megapixel digital camera and my graphics program is Photoshop version 6. If you would like to see some more of my pics have a look at Boeing 747 Lapis lazuli Tillandsia Paris Opal Amber Gemstone and Boeing 737. Thanks again.
Arpingstone 11:31 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

you're welcome. And I will look forward to having a look at those other pictures! Nevilley 01:51 Feb 16, 2003 (UTC)

(re Talk:Airbus A320) My pleasure, Adrian. That's an excellent A320 photograph. Yup, Avalon, just outside Melbourne, about 100 kilometres away from me. I'd have liked to spend a good deal longer there but was with friends who had had enough for one day and wanted to get home in time to watch the cricket. :) I must get a decent general-purpose camera one day. My Sony is excellent for macro work (I bought it to take pictures of hard drives and CPUs) but a poor tool for birds (my real love) or aircraft. Cheers, Tony (Tannin)

I don't know if you're sympathetic to this cause, but I need support in trying to keep football at football. They want to move it to soccer, please see talk:list of footballers. Mintguy 10:24 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)

Could you perhaps compress Image:Stamp.gb.diana.1981.250pix.jpg a bit? It is nearly 100,000 bytes in size but an image that size shouldn't be more than 1/10 as big. Having images that big makes it very difficult for people with slower modems to use Wikipedia. --mav

image:Stamp.barbados.250pix.jpg is way too big too. Please downsize and set your scanner to make lower resolution images. --mav

Per your message on my talk page: OK that's cool. I'm sorry I got pissy. :-) --mav

Don't happen to have a DC-8 in your collection, do you? Tannin

No matter then. I had a secret idea that you'd say "Yes, which do you want - a short fuselage early model? Or a Super Seventy?" And (of course) I'd say "Both, please!" Cheers -- Tony

PS - hang on to that MD-88 picture - I'll get around to doing a DC-9/MD-80/MD-90 entry before too long. - T

You now have a brand new history. --mav

Hi Arpingstone. I just wanted to thank you for all the great photos you've added to Wikipedia! -- Stephen Gilbert

Adrian, slip over to User talk:Snoyes for a discussion of image resizing. Maybe it will be helpful. Best - Tannin

Hi there: How are you? I see you have a passion for aviation. I share that passion. I am from Puerto Rico, I used to live near Luis Munoz Marin International Airport and I used to see British Caledonian DC-10's landing there , as well as Viasa, Iberia, Avianca, Delta Airlines, Mexicana, etc etc.

My two passions are actually boxing and airplanes. I wanted to be a boxer when I was a kid , that way I could combine both everytime I had to travel for a fight..lol!

Anyways I wanted to tell you that I have a collection of 69 plastic commercial jetliners, including a couple British Airways, the SST Concorde and Boeing 747 South Africa models. I really enjoyed your photos of the Japan Airlines 747 and British Midland Airbus A320 and others. Keep up the excellent work!

God bless!

Sincerely yours Antonio Catch me if You Can Martin

Hi Adrian

I've been following the Great Thumbnail Debate with much interest. I'm sorry that you were initially upset by it but it looks like it is settling down well now. It made me pretty nervous about *my* thumbnails - as I am very far from an expert - but I did some experiments (using Photoshop!) and I think I'm OK.

I was wondering about the caption to the SSC photograph. It seems to me it has two problems, both minor - (1) it's getting a bit long and maybe some of its text would be better in the article body and (2) the bit about the viaduct on rock is (to me) slightly confusing - for a moment I thought you were saying it's a viaduct OF solid rock, when presumably the intention is that that's what its foundations are on - is that right? And if so is there any way it can be made clearer for even thick people like me?? What do you think? Keep up the good work, Nevilley 11:06 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the response regarding this. Neville.

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This may be an impossible task, but do you think you could explain to someone who knows practically nothing about using a scanner and other technical things (i.e. me) how to put photos onto Wikipedia? It may require a few hundred pages of instructions, in which case don't worry, but thanks anyway.Olivia Curtis 18:25 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Olivia, welcome. Yes, I'll do an outline of how I prepare and upload my pics but it won't be lengthy because I don't know your expertise (if any!) or your equipment. Watch this space (could be a day or two). Adrian 20:35 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Adrian. I looked at your resizing of the larger Kaprun pic. It looks excellent - I tried resizing the large one to the same dimensions as you had done and had basically identical results. I was going to ask you how you got such high quality images, but you gave yourself away in your post: a digital camera. What resolution and zooms (optical & digital) does this camera have? --snoyes 23:11 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)