On 01/08/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/1/06, Stan Shebs shebs@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...)