Very Good Points Sir. With Digicams no fear of finishing of Film Rolls!!!!!
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Ushadi micromini <[email protected]> wrote: > Gurcharanji: > exactly... > > I totally and heartily agree... > > USha di > ============== > > On Nov 25, 2:09 pm, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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'. > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
