On 01/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/1/06, Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com> wrote:
Heh, my productivity machine is botanical
gardens. Photo of label,
whole plant, closeups of leaves/flowers, three steps to the left,
repeat. :-) UC Berkeley botanical garden sez they have 12,000 taxa
for instance, I've only racked up about 300 of them so far...
Bastard! I do European castles. I don't have a car. You have any idea how
long it takes to take those "three steps to the left"?
Actually the real problem is getting to the article after visiting the
place, and discovering that someone has already taken a (better) photo of
it.
Amusing case in point:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_of_Cashel_inside_cathedral.jpg
(my image)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_of_Cashel-castle_interior.jpg
(existing image)
They're actually quite interesting in comparison. Most of the foliage
in your version is more grown - look at the top of the main arch - but
there are some patches where yours is denuded and the earlier one has
growth. What, if anything, that indicates I don't know, but it's
something.
There's rarely anything to be *lost* by the duplicate, though I agree
it's annoying to find you've been pre-empted. (I should go round the
Ashmolean one of these days, do all the obscure portraits of minor
nobility, little chance of duplicating effort there...)
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
