First archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveMar3-2003
Second archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveJul10-2003

Hi!
I'm on holiday from 10th July 2003 to 17th July 2003 in Brixham in the county of Devon in southern England. So I won't see anything put here until the 16th July. Cheers!
Adrian Pingstone 08:50 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi Adrian. Just looking at your photos for Tattoo, could you crop the image

down a little further? With the tiny images we work with it seems we really need to fill the image almost completely with the subject or the detail gets completely lost. --Robert Merkel 06:23 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No problem, Adrian. I couldn't be bothered figuring out how to do it either, so I just re-uploaded the same picture from my hard drive. (I took a moment to sharpen it a fraction first, though sharpening only seems to work well when you have resized. That was taken with my old camera and was not resized, just cropped.) My duck is a female Blue-billed Duck, and I think she is the prettiest thing I've met since ... oh, since I was 17 and full of hormones, I guess. Here is all of her. The other picture, of course, just shows her tail feathers. I haven't written the 'pedia entry yet, but if you read Musk Duck you'll get a pretty reasonablle idea: female Blue-Bill Ducks look very like female Musk Ducks, and are equally fond of diving to the bottom to look for tasty morsels. She's just on her way down.

I've spent two full days a week taking bird pictures these last five or six weeks (bad weather or no bad weather), but that shot (at full size, not cramped down to small resolution) is the one I like best of all. But one day, I'll get one of her on the way up, just breaking the water. A very difficult shot to take, as they stay down for anything between 10 seconds and a minute, and if they want to they can come up anywhere at all within 20 meteres or more. So you have to guess where you think she will come up, and then guess when you think she will come up, and squeeze the shutter release a half-second before you see anything. But if I keep at it long enough, sooner or later, my lucky number wil come up. Cross some fingers for me! Cheers -- Tony

Hi Adrian, I hadn't realised that you had identified the Paignton zoo picture. We will make a birder of you yet. jimfbleak

Thanks Adrian - I'll have to write a few species articles soon, since I put on a few pics myself. Jim

The reason I used a fairly small image size was because the images in question were taken on a low-resolution (0.7 megapixel) digital camera, and so the images wont look very good if their blown up too much, but your right they are a bit too small. If you look at the train article, I have however enlarged the big versions to 550 pixels, which is about as far as the images can be blown up without looking terrible, what do you think of it now?.

BTW seem as your good at finding images, I was wondering if you could find a pic to go in the Mallard (train) article G-Man 22:39 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Adrian, I've written Andean Flamingo now. Do you know what the species is in your pic on Flamingo? It's hard to tell with their heads down. jimfbleak

Super Andean Flamingo - I don't think I've ever seen a photo of the species before. By all means replace the Flamingo pic, it makes more sense to have an image where we know what it is. I'll write Lesser Flamingo soon, but not sure quite when.

It's an eclipse male Common Eider. Most male ducks go into a much drabber "eclipse" plumage in the summer after breeding and while they moult. The eider in particular has a baffling range of juvenile/eclipse/firstyear plumages, but the head shape and feathering pattern around the bill are unmistakable. The only problem with photographic guides, even the best ones, is that they can't show every plumage.

I like trying to identify mystery birds, so don't worry about that. I've got Wildfowl of the World so any duck should be identifiable. Jim

I'm sorry. I didn't notice who had put Paris (France), it was not intended to be insulting to an indivudual contributor. Apologies. Mintguy 11:21, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Game Boy

I compiled all the versions into 1 long image.

I couldn't find a box image for the 1995 Play-It-Loud color/clear series, or a good box image for the 2003 A-SP series. If someone can find these images then feel free to modify the pic using a photo editor.

Tonius (UTC) 15:17

PS1: The 1995 version is distinct from the 1996/1998 color versions by the placement of the Start/Select buttons.

PS2:

• 2003 GB ASP
• 2001 GB A
• 1999 GB L
• 1998 GB C
• 1996 GB P
• 1995 GB PIL
• 1989 GB

Game Boy

798 x 115 - JPG - 27.3 KB

Sorry, I forgot about 56K - I have a 100 Mbps connection. Originally I was using JPG, but JeLuf requested that the pics be in PNG format which augments the file size by 2025 percent.

I made the panaramic myself using a photo editor; I'm working on the sources of the individual pics.

Tonius 17:44

PS: Game Boy 750 x 108 & thanks for the image recommendations. What do you think of my Videogame Timeline page? Tonius 18:29

PS2: Thanks again for the more information. The Videogame Timeline is also a compilation of countless internet sources. So far (that I know of) there is no other website that offers a more complete timeline of video games than this one. Tonius 19:34

PS3: Please see the Timeline of video games User talk:Tonius 03:28