User talk:Benh/Archive/2008

Use of your pics

Hi Benh,

I'm working on a blog just now with tips and advice about taking photographs of Paris. I was hoping to use two of your superb pics on it-your night shots of the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Would you please let me know if this would be OK as long as the photographs are credited to yourself? You can contact me at: bruce.robbins at homecall.co.uk

Regards, Bruce

POTY Competition

Hi, I'm writing to let you know that an image of yours that become a Commons Featured Picture during 2007 is now part of the 2007 Picture of the Year competition. If you have > 200 edits you are welcome to vote too. Thanks for contributing your valuable work and good luck. Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: London Eye at night

Hello. Thanks for your comment on my picture. You said that the picture has a "Lack of sharpness and visible noise due to wrong settings used (f/3.5 and iso 400)." Could you expand on that statement please? What settings should I have used? I'm guessing that I should have used a longer exposure and lower ISO, but am puzzled by the comment about the aperture. I'm still learning how to use my camera, and I'd welcome any suggestions on how I can improve my photos. Thanks again. Mike Peel 19:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Don't worry about harshness; as long as it's constructive, I don't mind.

I was using a tripod, but not a brilliant one. The reason I didn't take a longer shot, or use a higher aperture value, was because the London Eye was spinning, which meant that it would have gotten blurred. That might not have been a bad thing, though... At the time, I was trying to do HDR images, but the spinning meant that that didn't work.

Thanks for the comment about the aperture size relating to DOF; I'd forgotten that, and will bear that in mind with future photos.

Thanks again. Mike Peel 22:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Pizza Pan(e)

Dear Benh, i would like to know if you adjust the nodal point when making panos.Best --Richard Bartz 23:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

fr:Ligne 6 du métro de Paris

Salut, d'abord bravo pour ta photo Image:Paris Night.jpg.

On y voit très bien la ligne 6, et comme je participe au fr:projet:Transports en Île-de-France, j'aimerais savoir s'il serait possible d'avoir un extrait en portrait ne comprenant que ça depuis les images originales. Je pourrais faire quelque chose d'équivalent moi-même à partir du montage final, mais j'ai peur que la qualité soit moindre...

Merci d'avance...

Gonioul 18:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah, je pensais à une image beaucoup plus cadrée sur la ligne, sinon j'ai peur que dans un article on ne voit pas grand chose, quitte après à faire un lien vers le panorama... Mais je suppose que ça dépend de l'effet voulu... Je ne suis pas doué en photographie :p

Gonioul 19:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Merci!

Gonioul 22:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Delay

Yes its good to take them in the early morning when its cold --Richard Bartz 22:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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--Mywood 20:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Question

Ce que toi et user:Sting faites est impressionnant (je ne vote pas seulement car je suis trop fainéant pour vérifier l'exactitude des dessins), et je trouve que la carte ressemble à celles de Sting. Vous vous connaissez ? Benh 22:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Je n'ai jamais rencontré Sting personnellement (il vit au Brésil, moi en France), mais je participe comme lui à l'Atelier graphique. C'est lui qui a défini les standards colorimétriques utilisés par l'atelier, et il a aussi fait des didacticiels pour la cartographie. J'utilise ces standards et ces méthodes, ce qui explique que nos cartes soient du même style. Et c'est le but, bien sûr : donner une cohérence graphique aux cartes de Wikipédia. Sémhur 08:24, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Hej Benh,

first of all a great compliment for your amazing photos! In my view the most amazing photo is the panorama of Paris by night. I am so amazed by it that I would like to print it and hang in my room. So what I want to ask is whether you have a version of this photo with a higher resolution in order to improve the printing quality.

Cya, Weyoune

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--Mywood 12:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

possible interesting picture to take for wikipedia

Salut Benh, I recently read three Emile Zola novels. From further reading I guess the area from L'Assommoir is not necessarily a recommended tourist attraction. However, I think it would be very interesting to see some photos of the old buildings around Rue de la Goutte d'Or.

I have visited some photojournalist websites which show some areas with immigration issues - is the old setting for Zola's novel one of these areas?

Mark

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What do you think ...

about this ? --Richard Bartz 20:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

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Alvesgaspar 18:00, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

FPC on the English Wikipedia

Just wanted to let you know I nominated your Palais Garnier photo. :-) Diliff 20:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

• I know what you mean about not being able to use a tripod, it can be quite frustrating. This one is quite similar (although I think yours is much better). I had to reach really far forward over the balcony because the pillars obscured the wide view, so it made it hard to keep the camera still and avoid parallax errors. Also the dynamic range was very difficult to contain and I think the shadows suffered as a result. As an even more extreme example of the same thing, this one was taken hand held at ISO800 and f/1.8 as tripods were not allowed. As a result it is really a bit too dark, and even as it is, I had to brighten it a lot which created a lot of noise but because it was 20 individual photos, I downsampled it so far that noise is not really visible. But you should see the original RAW files! The quality is awful.

If you don't mind me asking, how come your english is so good? It seems far better than the average frenchman. ;-) I'm guessing from your name that you're Vietnamese? Diliff 11:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

I have proposed at least one image you uploaded for deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/Images of skyscrapers in France. Jackaranga 22:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Merci de votre compréhension, vous soulevez un point intéressant, comme par exemple pour votre photo Image:Louvre 2007 02 24 c.jpg qui est permise car elle ne dépeint pas spécifiquement la pyramide du Louvre mais plutôt la place tout entière. {{FoP-France}} présent sur cette image, répond aussi à beaucoup de question. Merci, et désolé si le "vous" n'est pas de rigueur, je ne sais jamais quoi dire sur internet. Jackaranga 09:40, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

FP pormotion

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Alvesgaspar 22:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

400D focus problems

Hello Benh,

i read that you had/have problems with your 400D. I have a 350D and also had such problems. But i could never really identify the real problem...because often the focus was perfect. What i found out is that the light situation is very important for a good focusing. Additionally in problematic (light-) situations you should use the center focus point as this is the most accurate one. I recently bought the 40D and I have to say that focusing problems nearly don't exist anymore. But of course it is a more expensive camera and i had to safe money for quite some time to buy it :) ...but it is worth it.

But what i want to say is that there is not necessarily sth wrong with your equipment. It can also be that simply the situation was problematic for the camera to handle. But I know those things can make you crazy as you never know if sth is wrong or not. Don't give up! :-) Greetings --AngMoKio 06:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I replied on my page. --AngMoKio 20:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Downsample

Bonjour Benh

Je vais discuter du downsampling ici et demander l'avis de la communauté. Si des guidelines ne sont pas observés la plupart du temps, à quoi bon avoir ces guidelines! S23678 19:20, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Your vote in FPC

Hi,

I made an modification to the image Wan Chai.jpg, hope this would address the issues you specified in Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Wan_Chai.jpg. Thank you.

--βαςε_LXIV™ 04:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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Congratulations! :-) --Richard Bartz (talk) 11:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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--Simonizer (talk) 11:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Nomination

I've nominated Saint Chely Tarn for featured picture on the English Wikipedia Featured Picture Candidates, and it has strong support. Thanks for making such beautiful images! Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Panorama

Hey,

I have seen many of your panoramas and am impressed by the quality. When you say the picture is a mosaic, how do you take the pictures? What I noticed when I tried, the sky comes overexposed, and when the sky becomes ok, the ground is underexposed. Any tips? Regards Muhammad 05:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Muhammad 08:59, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Hooker Valley Pano MC edit1.jpg

Hi Benh, I uploaded and nominated an edit of my Hooker Valley Pano at FPC. Maybe you can have a look at it. Chmehl (talk) 05:22, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

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- Benh (talk) 20:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

editing in a good faith?

hi, benh. you told me you're editing in a good faith. you brought up the nomination of a firework and left my hot spring nomination , which is in the same situation with firework, down. Not that I care much, but IMO it is not a good faith editing. Please have a nice day.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:19, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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--Simonizer (talk) 11:01, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

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--Simonizer (talk) 17:32, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

nomination

hi, I did not ask you to bring the nomination up. please close it with fp or not fp (who cares), but i want no more votes and discussion at that nomination. it is against the rules.for now i removed from the least and did not put anywhere. thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Mila

Look at [User:Mbz1|Mila]]. Is she going to leave us? Greetings, Simon --Simonizer (talk) 22:44, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

FP promotion

Merci :)

Royal Lotus

Hi Benh. Thanks for the comment. I'm not clear what you mean when you write "but this could be much much better in my opinion (I have this in mind)" What in mind? Thanks. Alasdair

more interesting to leave them

it is more interesting to leave them! also, it made some sense for other things I saw today. -- carol (talk) 08:41, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I am going to revert that, okay? It was more interesting the way you left it which is the reason I deleted what I wrote here. -- carol (talk) 09:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Portail Randonnée

Bonjour, Je viens de créer le Portail:Randonnée et relancer le Projet:Randonnée. Je compte sur ton aide pour les enrichir : contributions, évaluations...

A bientôt sur le portail et sur le projet. 82.65.61.245 11:02, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Message from old friend

salut benh, superbes tes photos, je me rappelais pas de cette passion au lycée gerard de nerval... alexis (en terminale uniquement). tiens j'avais oublié de signer --Paulrudd (talk) 07:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC) oui oui alexis, et pas paul rudd (je regardais un film avec lui quand j'ai crée le login). je vois que tu masterise le panorama comme une brute, t'utilises quoi comme logiciel? moi j'ai ptgui, pour le peu que je fais. sinon j'ai été au laos du nord au sud en 2009, et c'etait super. mais je me rappelle que les fois ou t'en avais parlé a Nerval tu denigrais a mort...et merci pour le vote, mais c'est raté cette fois-ci--Paulrudd (talk) 17:10, 22 February 2010 (UTC) ah j'avais pas lu ta page : hugin et enblend--Paulrudd (talk) 17:11, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Image:Fira and the Old Port MC.jpg

Hi Benh! I just removed the tilt that you mentioned on the FPC page. Could you have a look at my image it if you find something else (stitching problems, ghosts, ...)? I am also wondering if you know a possibility to upload image files larger than 20MB? I had to downsample this image from 150MPix to 50MPix (which may be sufficient anyway...). Thanks and good night! Chmehl (talk) 21:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Russian offices in France

Hi Benh, I have a request for assistance which you may be able to help with. On English Wikipedia, I am working on an article/list of Diplomatic missions of Russia, and subsidiary articles, and I am in need of photos of:

• Embassy of Russia to France, 40-50 bd. Lannes, Paris 75116
• Trade Representative Office of Russia in Paris, 49, rue de la Faisanderie, 75116 Paris
• Permanent Representation of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe, 75, allee de la Robertsau, 67000 Strasbourg
• Consulate General in Strasbourg, 6, place Brant, 67000, Strasbourg
• Consulate General in Marseille, 3, avenue Ambroise Paré, 13272 Marseille Cedex 08
• Permanent Delegation of Russia to UNESCO, 8, rue de Prony, 75017 Paris

Might you be in the position to be able to help with photos of these representations of Russia in France? Or perhaps you can point me towards someone who may be able to help with these photos? Any assistance you can give would be appreciated. Cheers --Russavia (talk) 05:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Benh, thanks for your reply on my talk page. Any photos you are able to take would be great. I will hunt around for photographers in Strasbourg and Marseille who may be able to get those photos for me. There's no rush for the Paris photos, whenever and if you have a chance is great. Cheers --Russavia (talk) 18:29, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Taming of the Shrew.jpg

This should be fixed now. Thanks for waiting =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Mistake

Yo, buddy ;-) I think you did a mistake when closing this nomination and writing the results. This picture should be featured as we have a 2/3 majority on support votes here. Best regards --Richard Bartz (talk) 22:35, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fap Pigs (FP)

Hi Benh, Thanks for nominating my FP ! Do you really think they have a change? I must confess it never crossed my mind they could become famous... Cheers, Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:39, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Measuring emotions in pixels?

"What emotions could convey a couple dozens of pixels ?" Benh 06:45, 22 August 2008 (UTC). See, Benh, I'm quoting you already. Now I'd like to let you know that I believe emotions cannot be measured in pixels. Remember emotions were around since the beginning of the time much before pixels have arrived? One more thing. I responded your comment on the image delisting page. I'm not sure you read it, so I'd like to repeat it on your own talk page:
"It is getting increasingly hard to follow your thoughts, but I still would like to give you a good advise: please, if you could, before making a statement, and I mean any statement, try to give it another thought. For instance to justify the reason for delisting of the image you wrote: "Delist Not very useful at this size". I went to the image page and hit "Check usage" button. Here's what I got: "Evstafiev-bosnia-cello.jpg is used on at least 192 pages in 28 projects." Is the image really not very useful? Is any of your high resolution images is at least half as useful as this one?"
And now the image is used on one more page - your own talk page, Benh.--Sensl (talk) 18:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

• Dear Mila --let's call you Mila, I like to name things and people--, I read the page, but did not reply because we can debate about this endlessly. To me, a small image doesn't convey emotions, it leaves room to imagination. That's my opinion. But it seems the community agree with you, since the picture has kept its FP status, and that's the decision we all have to agree with now. Like I once read (from Michael Maggs ?) I believe the system is good and that FP are most of the time worth their status, unlike what happens sometimes on QI. I haven't checked for VI yet. Talking about this, Image:Evstafiev-bosnia-cello.jpg image is to me a fine example of VI and not FPC. Now you're right when you raise the usage issue (though many of the 192 pages are actually userpages), but should this picture be used on some other medium than a webpage, it may not be as useful. And to answer your last question, I have at least one image which is more used than this, but who cares ? Benh (talk) 22:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

• No, you cannot call me "Mila". I am not mbz, and that is going to be proved by stupid and unlawful (against Common policies) check user your friends requested. I spent few months in France and I know Frenchmen often say: "Cherchez la femme" . It does not work in this situation. I've advised you already to give it another thought before making a statement. In other words like it was said: "Ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien." I do care about the usage of your images, and I'm glad they used on many pages.--Sensl (talk) 17:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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naerii 07:59, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Permission to use Louvre Photo

Hi Benh, Your photo of the Louvre is spectacular. I love it. I'd like to request permission to use your Louvre photo in a company calendar. Can you please let me know if this is ok and what the next steps are? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Louvre_2007_02_24_c.jpg

Merci. Kimberly kimberly_chihaoui@bmc.com

Hi,

I'll send you an email, but you are free to use it for anything and at no cost and the steps are very simple : just mention author of the image (me !) and it would be great if you could also mention that it comes from Wikimedia Commons (this isn't necessary though). Merci ! Benh (talk) 17:32, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Commons:Picture of the Year/2008/Preparation

We are starting the discussion on POTY 2008. Would you like to join? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

FP Promotion

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--Simonizer (talk) 19:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Photo-Workshop

Did you see this?. Would be nice to see you there --Simonizer (talk) 08:02, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

FPC Closing procedure

Merci beaucoup for letting me know ;). --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 21:55, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Featured votes on the last day

When You close the featured vote, please don't strike out votes that are on the last day of the vote. Notice that it is inclusive the last day. Haros (talk) 10:58, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

You must be referring to this nomination. The voting period is 9 complete days, so 9x24h. if a picture is nominated on day n at 00:05, voting period ends on day n+9 at 00:05. hence the two votes I discarded. Benh (talk) 11:03, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I did. If you look at the top where I believe You created an indication of when the vote ends, You will see that is says 27 Sep included. Either the votes were in time, or the time-indication at the top is misleading, and should be corrected or removed. Haros (talk) 11:15, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

You're right about the template, I'll change it. Thanks. - Benh (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for posting the congrats comment on my talk page. (Giligone (talk) 23:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC))

Signature

Salut Benh, sur la page COM:FPC, je ne vois pas de problèmes avec ma signature. C'est où exactement? Guérin Nicolas ^(messages) 18:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

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Benh (talk) 12:01, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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FPC

I've nominated your panorama of Marseille as a FPC. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 15:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

•  Question Did you make this picture with a borrowed lens? Cause, refering to your description, you dont own a lens that is able of a focal lengh of 59mm.

And another question: Do you mind sharing your kowledge about nightshots with me? Cause i havent been able to make a good night shot up to now. The bright parts are always to bright, the dark parts are alwas to dark. The colours tend towards brown and the noise is terrible. How do you make this colorful and sharp nightpictures? --Simonizer (talk) 21:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I too would appreciate it if you could let us know about your methods. Muhammad 16:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm replying here since I got three people asking me question at same time :)

Massimo, I used a Canon 17-55mm (a lens I strongly recommend despite the high price) but converted the focal to it's 35mm equiv. It was actually 36mm. This answers the "sharp" point raised by Simonizer :)

When taking night shots I mostly take care of setting exposure correctly. This is true for any shot of course, but on a night shot, it's a little bit more tricky, because you can't really rely on your metering device. Set it to a mode where it will look the whole frame and you'll get something overexposed because a night shot has mainly dark parts, and the metering device tries to compensate this. In theory, I would use spot metering, and set the exposure from a bright part of the scene. My 400D doesn't have it, so I use "evaluative metering". It's still OK because I have found out that it takes in account mostly the central part of the frame. Maybe I've been lucky, but I've found it reliable enough until now. I don't know about Nikon metering system. Another way I've never explored would be to use an "whole frame evaluative metering" and compensate exposure (-1 or more).

I postprocess my night pictures, but not in unatural way I believe. I slightly brighten dark parts to compensate poor dynamic range from our cameras. It usually satisfies me much more than the picture I get out of the camera. I also set the color balance afterwards (hence the need to shoot RAW) and most of the times end up with a rather cool one (3500-4000°K I think, but I might go out of this range if I feel like so). This ensures me to often be satisfied with the colours.

In a more general point of view, it's better to set exposure from a bright area than opposite, because I've found out it's easier to pull details out of a dark part than out of a bright part, where it's simply gone.

As for the noise... I think it mostly depends on your hardware. Canon is renowned for their very nice sensor, but I think Nikon has closed the gap (if not taken the lead) in this field.

I think i've adressed all of your points Simonizer : Exposure, colours, sharpness and noise.

This is based on my own experience. I hope I'm not telling you wrong things and that this helps. Benh (talk) 18:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. One last question. How do you brighten the dark parts of the picture? Using the fill-in light of the raw converter, using the graduation curve or using a method called contrast maping? Or is there another possibility i dont know? --Simonizer (talk) 07:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:Panorama again

Hi, Thanks for answering my question and once again providing me with great tips. As usual, any help or critique is welcome. I hope you are feeling better now, and I wish you a speedy recovery. Your English is not bad :). Regards Muhammad 16:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

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Benh (talk) 19:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Raising the bar

Hi Benh,

You might want take a look at this discussion -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:54, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Tour Eiffel

Can you beilieve we don't have a decent shot of the Eiffel Tower in Commons? A discussion is now going on on Commons:Valued image candidates and the bedst available pictures are this one and this one. Well?... -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Frac des Pays de la Loire

Hi Benh, sorry to bother you with this, but I do not know anybody but you, who lives in France. I've got request from Attachée aux expositions of Frac des Pays de la Loire. He wants to put the video made out of my sunset mirage and green flash images in their exhibit.All my Wikipedia images are free, but they requested thousands of the additional, original sunset sequences images. It will result in a big extra work for me. Do you know anything about the place? They claim to be a non profit organization. Do you know, if it is correct info? Thank you for your time. If you have not heard anything about them, it's OK, please do not bother. I'll try one more time to look them up on the NET. I just went over your talk page and had a great laugh. I'm talking about sensl. I looked over his/her contributions. I love him/her. I know you would say that I love him/her because I am him/her. :-)Yes, he/she really voted almost as I would have voted, with a few small exceptions. Do you really believe I would have voted to oppose Image:2008-08-01 Solar eclipse progression.jpg as he/she did? Looks like you do not know me so well after all. Congrats with recent FP promotions! Well done. I know you want to ask me, if I'm coming back to Commons. No, I am not, not now and hopefully not ever. I only would rarely post a message, if I need to contact somebody from Commons as I'm doing this now.If you're to respond please respond here. I'll check on your response myself. Best.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Benh. BTW I believe you have a typo in the very first statement on your talk kage. It says: "I you have an account, I'll reply on your talk page." I believe it should say " If you have an account, I'll reply on your talk page." I love your current nimination. The view is great and the image is of very, very good quality.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image Image:Remarkables view MC.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Remarkables view MC.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Benh (talk) 21:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Spread

Yeah, Lycaon already mentioned, will do. Noodle snacks (talk) 23:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Paris Night.jpg

Pour info, on aperçoit l'image dans les Guignols du 18/11 à environ 2:56, la vidéo est sur le site de canal pour qq jours...

Gonioul (talk) 12:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

ESIEE Paris 2000 :p - Gonioul (talk) 21:51, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image Image:Baux de Provence.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Baux de Provence.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Benh (talk) 21:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Meet our photographers

Thanks for letting me know. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Liens entre page perso de photographes Commons

Bonjour.

J'ai créé sur ma page un chapitre appelé "D'autres photographes talentueux". Vous pourriez créer un chapitre similaire sur votre page perso Commons et m'inclure dedans. --ComputerHotline (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

WP:FPC discussion

A big discussion is taking place in WP:FPC about the promotion and closing processes (various topics). You may be interested in participating and help improving things there. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:47, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Seagull

Don't worry. I understand perfectly 'no wow' votes. That's a personal perception and not arguable. Many voters thought it was good enough, I may retry again in the future when you are on holiday :-)). I only have some problem with attack votes, but that is another story ;-). Please keep voting the way you feel you have to. Lycaon (talk) 21:50, 15 December 2008 (UTC)