Hello All:
Ok, this letter is going to piss off a bunch of people, but it needs to be said by somebody. The topic deserves public disclosure and public discussion, because many of us have been concerned about this for several years and the problem never gets fixed. I'm tired of discussing this with only my close dialing friends and the NASS board. This concerns the NASS website Sundial Registry. This is what I told Larry McDavid this morning: It's very bad that that the online NASS registry has such horrible low resolution miniscule photos. It has some of the worst quality photos found on any sundial website. If the NASS server can't handle bigger photos then NASS should switch to another damn server! Dave Bell's server allows us to currently have over 2000 hi def (900 pixels @ 150 dpi) photos on the PWS website alone. And we have twice that many photos on the SGS website! Our newest photo entries are even bigger at 1080 dpi so that they will fill up a hi def flat screen TV. Dave says that the server's limit is so high that we don't even have to worry about it. The NASS website has less than 500 low res crappy photos! By the way, that's why I only submitted medium res photos of my dial Registry submissions because I just assumed that Bob would downsize all the photos I send in anyway. So why bother sending high def originals if he's just going to downsize them? Additionally, on the submission form, there are no instructions telling us what size photos to send in! I bet lots of people send in shitty small photos because all the photos they see on the registry are small. On top of all this, nowhere does it say on the NASS website that there exists a separate off-line registry. It's a big secret. I bet nobody except for a handful of people have ever seen it or even know that it exists. It might as well not exist at all. It's so useless and unavailable to almost everybody. Now that I've vented, I want to thank you for requesting my best photos. At least you see the value of using good quality photos. Hey, this is the new age of High Definition. Everybody wants it and expects it now. NASS needs to get with the program! p.s. It takes months for people's updates to get posted. Some never get posted. And there dead links everywhere all over the website. John L. Carmichael Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson AZ 85718-4716 USA Tel: 520-6961709 Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Websites: (business) Sundial Sculptures: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com/> http://www.sundialsculptures.com (educational) Chinook Trail Sundial: <http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/COSprings/> http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/COSprings/ (educational) Earth & Sky Equatorial Sundial: <http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Earth-Sky_Dial/> http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Earth-Sky_Dial/ (educational) My Painted Wall Sundial: <http://www.advanceassociates.com/WallDial> http://www.advanceassociates.com/WallDial (educational) Painted Wall Sundials: <http://advanceassociates.com/WallDial/PWS_Home.html> http://advanceassociates.com/WallDial/PWS_Home.html (educational) Stained Glass Sundials: <http://www.stainedglasssundials.com/> http://www.stainedglasssundials.com (educational) Sundial Cupolas, Towers & Turrets: <http://stainedglasssundials.com/CupolaSundial/index.html> http://StainedGlassSundials.com/CupolaSundial/index.html
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