yep what she is writing about how she found garg .... is how i had fond Gargji's pictures and they kept showing up whenever i was looking for any plant indian or kolkatan origin ...well more often than not
tha's how i discovered indiatreepix... usha di On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:27 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > *This is one of the ways to move forward in future. * > *May be some takes up such a task so that we are able to succeed in our > dreams of documentation of all plant species of India.* > > Reproducing from blog link <http://allthingsplants.com/blogs/view/greene/> > by Carmelita (one of our members): > > > > > *One good way to earn lots of acorns...and thumbs!**Posted on Dec 18, > 2015 12:06 AM* > > For a while I have wondered how we can get more images into our database. > Some plants have long lists of plant names with zero photos. Hmmm? > > Late at night if I can't sleep I wander through the database pages and > pick random listings, then look on Google Images to see what the plant > looks like. Once I decide which images are the best examples for our > database, I copy the photographer's name and start researching the > photographer. Chances are he or she will be a botanist, naturalist, plant > collector, professional gardener or some such thing. One good place to view > images for the more obscure plant images is on Wikimedia...that was not a > typo. Nope, I did not mean to type Wikipedia; what you want to look at is > Wikimedia Commons which is a free repository...well, here is a link and you > can read about it. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > > Okay, so let's walk through this: > Look in the ATP database to find a plant that has no images. > For example: I looked at Pergularia daemia. > Then I looked at Google Images. > (Please remember that Google Images shows lots of irrelevant images along > with some correct ones.) > Then I looked for Pergularia daemia at Wikimedia Commons found this page > with an image by J M Garg of India. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pergularia_daemia_W_... > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pergularia_daemia_W_IMG_4208.jpg> > Okay, who is J M Garg? > Oh, he's a naturalist and an amateur photographer. And he's an important > and active guy. > He has a Wiki page: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > > And a Flicker page: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmgarg/ > > I researched more using "J M Garg" and "Pergularia daemia" as key words > and found my way to a site called efloraofindia...(formerly indiantreepix). > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/home > They have a very active group on Google Groups and are documenting the > flora of India. After reading about 1,000 posts I got bold and asked if I > could join the group. Sure, the group is comprised of mostly highly > educated botanists, students, naturalists, and the like but anyone can > request to become a member of the group. > Oh, what the heck. I applied for membership; what can they say but yes or > no. > Surprise, surprise. I was accepted!!! > > After being a member of the Google Group for a while (and helping to > identify a few plants) I felt comfortable sending Mr J M Garg an email to > explain about our ATP database and how nice it would be if our members > could see his images in our database. > Mr Garg gave me permission to use his personal images. > In fact, he gives *everyone* permission: > > "The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per > Creative Commons license attached with each image." > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > Thanks to J M Garg we now we have images of the Pergularia daemia in our > ATP database! > ................................................................. > > And that was just the beginning of my self-assigned task. > Whenever I have free time, late at night or when it's raining, I keep busy > adding images to the database. > > ******* > Here is the good part. If you go into your garden and take a photo of, for > example, a tulip, add it to the database along with all the other images of > tulips you'll get one acorn. But if you can add a photo...the *first ever > photo*...for a plant that has no images, you will earn *2 acorns*! Do > this often enough and you will become rich with acorns. > My original goal was to match photos to plant names in our database, but > earning acorns is a big plus. Earning the acorns *two at a time* is twice > as good. Receiving the thumbs up from other ATP members is just a bonus; > like a pat on the back for a job well done... > Even if I'm not the one who took the actual photos, I still managed to > hunt down the plant and capture the images...sort of. > > Slowly, slowly I have been working my way through the images captured by J > M Garg. I check each one first to be sure the image matches the plant in > our database. Then I check to see if we need the image in our database. Oh > sure, we can never have *too many images*, but my main goal was to add > images for those lonely little, photo-less plants in our database, not to > duplicate the efforts of other ATP members. > > ...................................................................................... > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
