Great devotion and knowledge of plants. On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 9:11:27 PM UTC+5:30 JM Garg wrote:
> Dear members, > It is great to learn about her passion, a fellow member (from Scotland). > She uses her 1,000's of plant pics as an aide memoire.... often boring > pics to show whether opposite or alternate leaves, leaf shape, flowers, > fruit, bark...any relevant detail. > It is a labour of love that she started in 2005 when she got her first > computer and a tiny idiot proof Canon Ixus camera (no bigger than a packet > of cigarettes) > Over the past 17 years, She has been taking pics of plants... be it in my > garden, in my street, in the countryside, in garden centres, or in exotic > places. > Once she has deleted rubbish pics, trimmed them and labelled them, she can > find any plant instantly.. by name, date or country. > She now has 77,496 of my plant pics on flickr, free for anyone to use with > permission. > If She had time to add TAGs ..family, colour etc then people would maybe > find them more... Even now she is completely amazed at the number of times > someone happens to find and look at her pics. > This very ordinary pic of *Ardisia eliptica* ..... see below found on > Hawaii has had 855 people to look at it on flickr! Bizarre.!!!! > A computer and tiny camera have literally changed her life. > Along the way she has seen and learned so much. > Every day is a school day. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/11713966@N02/16645779895 > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/dba8c0d0-a837-4c77-a864-27ed939cb8c6n%40googlegroups.com.
