Well said, Singh ji. On 25 November 2011 11:15, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear members > I have repeatedly been requesting to include the name of place in both > subject line and in body text. This is essential for a country like India > where you may be photographing a plant at sea level or 6000 m asl. The > distribution of plants is intricately linked with climatic and attitudinal > zonation, and as such it is a great help for both identification and > confirmation of identification. For plants meant for ID a few important > things are to be kept in mind and written as information. > > 1. Place, date (at least month) are essential. I think approximate > altitude is very useful for diverse climatic conditions in India. > 2. Habit and Habitat. cultivated/roadsides/wetplaces/dry slopes/forest, > etc. Habit yes slightly difficult but with some effort it can be done. One > can easily > write whether plant is soft (herbaceous) or woody. Woody plants with > trunk are trees and those without trunk are shrubs. Climbers > (vines) can be known by every one. We have only to stress it to the > members. > 3. Plant height, length of basal and middle leaves, diameter of flower > and size of fruit. These are essential because this can't be judged from > photograph, > but is very essential for identification. Additionally members can > always focus some scale indicator in the photograph itself to help > identification. > 4. I think we have to develop the habit of including minimum 3-4 > photographs in uploads and not just flower for proper representation and > identification. As I have been writing repeatedly if members take > following photographs, the job of identification would be much easier: > a) photograph showing a twig with leaves and flowers/fruits; b) close > up of flower side view; c) close up of flower top view; and if > possible d) photograph of fruit. > 5. With above minimum information and these 3 to 4 photographs, I think > identification should be more convenient. > > Many members often cite the time constraint in not taking and uploading > sufficient photographs. I assure you it is only a question of realizing the > importance and developing the habit of taking multiple photographs. No one > can perhaps know more than when we went on Chakrata trip. We managed more > than 6000 photographs each within a span of 4 days, fighting tight > schedule, rains, bad roads and all. With tight schedule we would often > pluck one twig (for plants common in the area so as not to disturb the > ecosystem) and take turns to photograph in the car. One has only to see the > display of photographs by Balkar ji to realize the importance of multiple > photographs. > > LET US ALL CONTRIBUTE TO ENRICH OUR DATABASE AND MAKE THE JOB OF OUR > EXPERTS EASIER BY PROVIDING ESSENTIAL INFORMATION AND UPLOADING MULTIPLE > PHOTOGRAPHS AS SUGGESTED ABOVE. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' 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): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1740 members & 90,000 messages on 31/10/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
