Awwww, what a sweet little critter..Looks scared , yet taking refuge in your garden.. that is just touching to me.. Sweet!
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Awwww, what a sweet little critter..Looks scared , yet taking refuge in your garden.. that is just touching to me.. Sweet!
Good pic Quincy:PDT11
we get them regularly. started about 5 years ago with 1. then that one brought another, then the baby ones started coming. I've got a storage box improvised into a feeding station. they have water and a pile of cat biscuits every night. Most we had at any one time was 8!Quote:
Originally Posted by naked lilac
we had to move the food to the bottom of the garden from half way up. they are such noisy eaters they were waking us up in the night lol!
we had to rescue a baby that I found wandering round the garden one morning. it had hypothermia. they are lovely little things.
I havn't seen a hedgehog for about 10 years now. They are cool little critters
that are full of ticks and fleas. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Broliv
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/...d4e6edb2_o.jpg
Tranmere oil jetty
Unusual view.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
So clear.
I can't figure out where you were, GD.
Walking on the water with Chippie perhaps.
Presumably using a very powerful telescopic lens?Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...x/P1020410.jpg[/IMG]
Nobody heard of ferry across the mersey,I took this on the return journey and all for free with being an old codger.Out side the peak hours they always
do a mini cruise,they leave Woodside and don`t turn for home till just past
Tranmere. On the outgoing they go as far as the Victoria Tower before turning.
Do you know how hedgehogs are making love?Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
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very, very careful. :)
That don't do nothing to humans,dogs or cats.If a hedgehog was without fleas I think it would die (So i've heard)Quote:
Originally Posted by Howie
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Here is my contribution for today.
Hedgehog fleas will jump onto humans, dogs and cats but don't tend to hang around long. They rarely bite humans but it is not unheard of. They are also found on other small mammals such as brown rats. Hedgehogs don't need the fleas and will not die without them. You should however not use dog/cat flea powder to get rid of the fleas - that will kill the hedgehog (I think this is were the misunderstanding comes from). You can use powders that are suitable for birds.Quote:
Originally Posted by John(Zappa)
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Dear guys
I know, it's really not my task to moan here about your pictures. I'm only a foreigner and a guest. But I think the pictures of this forum have too many byte. 800 kb for instance for one picture. And if there are 5 pictures on one page, then we have 4000 kb. I'm sure my computer sheds hidden tears.
And I wonder if nobody of you has a little fear, someone could snitch your pictures for commercial use? If you would publish only small pictures in a low quality then won't be such a danger.
Valid point, Atany. I try to keep my posted pictures below 100kb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atany
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[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...x/P1020394.jpg[/IMG]
Sitting on the dock of the bay.
Taken from Waterloo Dock
oh, very much thanx! Unfortunately has gregs dad not the same opinion. Again more than 800 kb. I would say that's an invitation to sell his pictures somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.D.W
I am afraid to tell you I am strictly an amateur I have never sold any of my pics at anytime. It takes me all my time to post them never mind worrying about the size.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atany
:handclap::handclap::handclap::PDT_Aliboronz_24:Th ats funny Gregs Dad.. I also:thumbsup: feel the same when I post a picture.. They look fine on my screen...Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
posted in wrong place
Should be in March not Feb. Has Feb been completed? No dates on some picturesQuote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Thanks Taffy,I really must stop drinking wine with my tea ,it should have of course been March
yes, it takes all your time because the pictures are so very big.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
At first you have to download Gimp, for instance, or Paint shop, Photo shop, whatever....
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Gimp is free
Then you have to open the file (File -> Open) Okay?
Then click at Picture -> Scaling or Resize (not canvas-size!)
Then make it smaller - type in a smaller length and height
Then save your picture with another name in your folder, but with a .jpg extension
Then it will ask you for the quality, with Gimp 100 means very good quality but more kb. In Paint Shop is 1 the best quality and many kb. Try it a few times and observe how it looks!
Then upload that smaller picture and we all will be very happy.
Attention! Give your picture always a new name if you save it after any changing, or your genuine picture will be lost. It's the same as in Word and so on. The program will remind you moreover.
First let me thank you for the lesson but you make it sound harder than what I am doing now,which is only 2 moves from flickr or photobucket. If our adminQuote:
Originally Posted by Atany
team didn`t like how I was posting my pics I`m sure they would have told me by now.
By the way there is quite a lot posted in a large size by other members.
I myself don`t like thumbnails because they have to be enlarged for viewing
I would rather see large ones anytime, after all they are all resized to 800.
I think the problem is in the how many bytes the photos are. the better quality the picture the bigger the file. although the size of photo is pretty much the same on the page the sizes of the files are different. I checked mine against other photos posted and found mine were smaller files.
right click on a photo and then properties and you'll see the difference in file sizes.
My camera is 7.2 mega pixels. perhaps others have better quality cameras with more pixels.
Just a thought.
Maybe the admins are having high-end computers, which never have problems to display pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
And if you never do any image editing with your computer, then is that as you would have a Mercedes, but you're driving each day only one circuit around your house and then you're parking that car again.
There are so many things you can do with your pictures with Gimp. You can enlarge details. Changing the colours, brightness,.... Correcting mistakes. You can make photomontages. Whatever. Never done that?
You could create greetings cards for Christmas. Maybe also a calendar as a gift. Or booklets and covers for your burnt CDs. If you haven't a printer, the copy shops will print that too.
And with Animation Shop you can make animations. For instance that a ship navigates along the Mersey.
Or such rubbisch:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2514/hizy4.gif
Hi Antany,I do have a few programs which I sometimes use to do the things you can do with your Gimp,for example Picasa,Photofiltre,Photoimpression,Quote:
Originally Posted by Atany
but I try to take my photos as I would like them look without alterations.
If I wanted to alter them that much I think I would have taken up painting
instead years ago.
Just keep on doing what you have been doing, you take great pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
I agree shytalk as Gregs dad well knows:PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Gregs dad is our David Bailey or Lord Litchfield:PDT11
Thank`s folks for your kind remarks.
As you like it.
I didn't realise this discussion was taking place.
I don't particularly like thumbnails, certainly not in the POTD thread, but if it suits some people, then I can live with it.
I also didn't realise that Greg's Dad's photos 'weights' so much.
(I'm so green that I don't even know if 'weights' is a computer expression!)
My photos are about 2 Mb on my memory card, but when I save them to flickr I choose the 800 width size, and they end up about 100 Kb or less.
(That must be why they look as if they've been shot through lino!)
GD's photos are consistently beautiful, and I don't care what he's doing.
Yes, he's an amateur, and also an inspiration to the rest of us. :PDT11
Hear hear. You carry on doing what you're doing cos whatever it is, it's working.