YES to all of Gurcharanji's items..
I agree with this in particular: I quote : 5. Strive to upload plants with all essential details and upload photographs which contain maximum information to help experts. " end quote I would add: precision and attention to detail is a virtue in Science, cooking, raising children, shopping, crossing the road etc etc... so it is here... AND I HAVE PERSONAL request: please take and submit well focused and detailed photographs... in this digital age everybody can do wonderful photography with small mom and pop digital camera... I do , now that I am older can not carry 10 /20 pounds heavy equipment bag, I carry a small digital camera in my regular ladies purse... and take pictures , if you have seen what I have submitted... I refer to Malvaceace week... I submitted 37 cases.. look and see how great the focus and details are... I am not beating my own drum... but only the fact that a little attention to detail would surprise you , and increase your own creativity... Also see Gurcharanji's pics.. they are also with a prosumer camera... not a dslr... Ranjini Kamath I think does her photography with a mom and pop digital.. look at her pics.. Dinesh and Satish I think use DSLR and macro lenses.. there pictures are wonderful... and Prasad and Pankaj.. do wonderous shooting with their equipage... not everybody can do that...I am learining a great deal from their pictures... and I learned about eflora from wikipedia where I kept finding Gargji's pictures ..excellent quality over the years.. and googling for Garg got me to eflora ... I am not sure what Ushaprabha Page ji uses, but it could not be a very heavy professional dslr... Alok Mahendroo does a fantastik job of using available light and equipment... list is long... Please help me include your name in this list... and who knows you can win in many categories .. that we already have or new ones that are bound to be created... Usha di On Jan 1, 11:33 am, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Singh ji, > I think under your leadership members will certainly be able to further > improve upon themselves. > > On 1 January 2012 10:44, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Dear members > > Year 2011 has been unique in the five year history of efloraofindia: the > > membership shot up to 1775, 1 lac target of posts was ahcieved, year 2011 > > itself seeing 6000 mails in a month being achieved and total mails posted > > during the year slightly less than combined 4 previous years. There has > > also been quality uploads by our veterans and new members equally, we saw > > new family episodes attracting large participation. The group managers also > > introduced new ways to honour performers in various categories. Above all > > efforts of all have helped in building an excellent working relationship > > where every one enjoys interactions and any abberations are gracefully > > checked. Let us work together to make 2011 much more enjoyable and bring > > further progress in the group. Let us all resolve to: > > > 1. Work for maintaining the excellent atmosphere where every one enjoys to > > interact. > > 2. Contribute some new uploads to our database. > > 3. Contribute some photographs during family weeks (here I have special > > request for a few members who have got hundreds of their plants identified > > through this group, but > > hesitate to share these in monthly weeks in spite of frequent > > requests. Sorry to write this but we should utilize occasions provided to > > us to repay what we have achieved > > from the group). > > 4. Nominate a minimum of five uploads in each category (Best > > photograph/Best set of Photographs) to show our appreciation for good > > photographs. I think voting is a better > > way of praising a good photograph as compared to praising through a > > mail. > > 5. Strive to upload plants with all essential details and upload > > photographs which contain maximum information to help experts. > > > Let us all work towards a model working e-Group, and set a goal for other > > groups. > > > HAPPY 2012 for all members and their families. > > > -- > > 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 1760 members > & > 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) 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'.
