It's time for me to kick back and enjoy your pictures.
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And that's a wrap folks.
- Thread starter ICE
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fatboy
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Dude, I have nothing to compare with yours, seriously, I must be really lucky or something.
Well then, I would say that I am the lucky one.
fatboy
Administrator
"Well then, I would say that I am the lucky one."
Well, lucky that you have some you have some seriously flawed construction going on in your area that deserves to have pictures taken. But, for me, it seems like it would be tough to see crap all day long. I enjoy good construction myself. Just sayin......
Well, lucky that you have some you have some seriously flawed construction going on in your area that deserves to have pictures taken. But, for me, it seems like it would be tough to see crap all day long. I enjoy good construction myself. Just sayin......
steveray
SAWHORSE
Pipe sleeve right?
FM William Burns
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Just don't keep the wraps on it for good! We all enjoy the pictures 
incognito
Silver Member
Please ICE do not stop!! The photos are great! Probably most do not post because we do not know how.
It is so easy a child can do it. Find a child.incognito said:
Every inspector should carry a camera. I review pictures and find mistakes that I missed. Pictures work great for defending a correction or explaining the correction to a boss. If I am not sure about a correction, I will send a picture to the appropriate engineer at HQ and get an answer. A camera can see in places I can't. For example, a condenser name plate that faces a wall or something that is far away.
I have used several cameras and here is what works for me: Wide angle, 12.1 mega pixels, 18x power optical zoom, not much bigger than a pack of smokes so it fits in a pocket. Optical zoom is the most important feature and 3x or 4x doesn't cut it. The camera I use now is a Nikon S9100.
After posting 219 pictures, I have run low on forum worthy pictures. I posted pictures to convince others to do the same and I figure there are inspectors here that are waiting for me to slow down and then they will jump in. If ten people post a couple pics a day, the buzz around here will sustain itself.
I realize that not everyone works an area like mine. I have worked many areas from industrial to what I have now and they all produce pictures. By the way, I prefer working in an area like mine.
Tiger
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Daddy-0-
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I take lots of pictures also. I have to be careful because I have permission from the boss to post pictures as long as they do not easily identify a particular house. For this reason I must use some discretion when posting pictures. I will wade through my pics next week and see what will be useful here. Thanks to ICE for all of recent entertainment.
I'm a bit mixed on this. I burned out on the current rash of pics after 2 or 3. I don't normally open the pics threads as they load too slow and clog up the works. Cute titles, no descriptive info, they take 5+ minutes to load, I get there and realize "oh joy a picture of a senior citizen" or an unknown and undescribed defect...I'm not going to click on it again to see what people are guessing. The top pic above, no commentary or description, I'm assuming was an example of fine construction that the op wishes me to emulate some unknown part of, I dunno. I checked one of the pics above, over 2 megs, that's insane. When I post pics on forums I normally compress them to about 50k. When coming to the forum, the recent posts tab becomes a 2 page affair not because of worthy banter but because of all the pic threads... I sift through them for the meat and taters and then click on page 2 which again loads slowly. What about a "pic of the day" thread where these type of teaser/defect pics could all be posted under one heading in one spot. I would be able to find the current threads faster and those who have the speed and want to look at the pics would be able to find them in one location.
Not trying to frost your cake... just food for thought.
Not trying to frost your cake... just food for thought.
FM William Burns
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Love that idea!
Daddy-0-
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DRP,
I like the idea also. Why don't you get us started?
I like the idea also. Why don't you get us started?
DRP,
Sorry to hear that you have not been enjoying the forum. I did consider that what I was doing might upset some people. I suspect that you are not alone by a long shot, and that has been in the back of my mind since I started. Things should get back to normal soon enough.
Rather than a picture of the day thread, you folks should look into a topic devoted to pictures. The title could state if it is el., mech., etc. This makes good sense in that many people are like DRP and don't come here for the pictures. They shouldn't have to wade through them all to find what they are looking for and I can see how that would bother them.
Since most of what I did here was pictures, you had the option of blocking me and then you wouldn't have been searching for what you came for.
I would think that a lot of people did that and I am surprised that nobody mentioned it.
You should have spoken up sooner instead of waiting until I am done. I wouldn't have stopped until I was ready but I would have put "PIC" in the title to save you the trouble. I suggest that anybody that reads this, do that from now on.
Sorry to hear that you have not been enjoying the forum. I did consider that what I was doing might upset some people. I suspect that you are not alone by a long shot, and that has been in the back of my mind since I started. Things should get back to normal soon enough.
Rather than a picture of the day thread, you folks should look into a topic devoted to pictures. The title could state if it is el., mech., etc. This makes good sense in that many people are like DRP and don't come here for the pictures. They shouldn't have to wade through them all to find what they are looking for and I can see how that would bother them.
Since most of what I did here was pictures, you had the option of blocking me and then you wouldn't have been searching for what you came for.
I would think that a lot of people did that and I am surprised that nobody mentioned it.
You should have spoken up sooner instead of waiting until I am done. I wouldn't have stopped until I was ready but I would have put "PIC" in the title to save you the trouble. I suggest that anybody that reads this, do that from now on.
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I'm here because I'm enjoying it and because I'm learning, so no worries. I don't believe you have upset anyone but I did come to realize I was ignoring threads started by you, not because I had any problem with you but because the overwhelming majority of your thread starts were of this nature... and there's nothing wrong with that. However, if you started a thread asking for an opinion or another set of eyes you probably wouldn't be read by at least me, and possibly a few others. If the pic threads were in one location then I would only ignore those and would probably read your other posts. I use the word ignore without prejudice, with a faster connection I'd probably look at them all, I do like pics, this page just took 6 minutes to load.
I compressed this shot to about 1/5 the size of the original, it should load much faster. We are all getting much higher resolution cameras nowadays, and that's a great thing for many applications. For posting a general shot to the web much of that resolution is lost or unneeded, see if I lost the message in the compression.
If we continue this way I've found what works from my end, so I'm not busting anyone's chops. I hadn't seen this viewpoint expressed, it's just more input on how people use the forum to consider.
Daddy-O,
I looked in my pics and being a carpenter I have another set... I don't believe I've ever knowingly taken a pic of a construction defect of mine
I compressed this shot to about 1/5 the size of the original, it should load much faster. We are all getting much higher resolution cameras nowadays, and that's a great thing for many applications. For posting a general shot to the web much of that resolution is lost or unneeded, see if I lost the message in the compression.
If we continue this way I've found what works from my end, so I'm not busting anyone's chops. I hadn't seen this viewpoint expressed, it's just more input on how people use the forum to consider.
Daddy-O,
I looked in my pics and being a carpenter I have another set... I don't believe I've ever knowingly taken a pic of a construction defect of mine
Six minutes would be a deal killer for me. I had no idea that was the case. Mine loads in nano-seconds. I have tried dropping file size for e-mail but haven't had any luck with it. iPhoto doesn't have that feature. My Nikon software may have it but it is too clumsy to use. I tried a link that somebody here provided but it was only good for a few pictures a day.
In the long run, I probably wouldn't use such a feature. When I see other people's pictures and I want to get a closer look, I zoom in. If it is a large file, I can get much closer than if it a small file.
I deleted the pictures that I could {I can't edit the OP} so you won't have to wait six minutes to read this.
In the long run, I probably wouldn't use such a feature. When I see other people's pictures and I want to get a closer look, I zoom in. If it is a large file, I can get much closer than if it a small file.
I deleted the pictures that I could {I can't edit the OP} so you won't have to wait six minutes to read this.
Daddy-0-
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DRP
We also like to admire good work. This too can be a learning tool or just a way to get some attaboys. I encourage you to post some of your work that you are proud of. I usually post pics as a JPG. you have to click on it to see it. Does that load faster? It gives you the option of viewing or not after you have opened the thread. The pics on here open fine for me and even open quickly on my phone. You have limited internet in your area. Probably a good trade off for the view. I would not wait two minutes let alone six.
We also like to admire good work. This too can be a learning tool or just a way to get some attaboys. I encourage you to post some of your work that you are proud of. I usually post pics as a JPG. you have to click on it to see it. Does that load faster? It gives you the option of viewing or not after you have opened the thread. The pics on here open fine for me and even open quickly on my phone. You have limited internet in your area. Probably a good trade off for the view. I would not wait two minutes let alone six.
fatboy
Administrator
If he's waiting six minutes, he, like me until recently, is on dial-up access. When I was, I also elected not to even try, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't post, I just chose not to wait. But I sure do like the high-speed now................
Exactly Tim,
The electrons do get tuckered out getting here, the old timers say the opry wouldn't get into this valley till Tuesday afternoon.
I think Daddy-O is hitting on one solution, loading pics to the forum and the reader clicks on the pic to view... I'm guilty of doing that and then posting the img link in my post to make it show, oops! I've done it the way ICE has done it most of the time just out of rote, loading the pic to photobucket and then posting the img tag. Either of those forces the pic to load each time. If we have pic threads the click on pic link would be a great way to let those of us with slow connections keep up, I'd only click on a new pic rather than waiting to load an entire thread of pics to see the new pic. I just loaded Darren Emery's pipe sleeve thread in 2 minutes and then clicked on the pic, which I saw was small and could load easily. Now with each new response I won't click on it again or have to wait for it to load.
ICE, don't delete a pic on my account, then I'm robbing others. My thoughts on this aren't gelled, I was just throwing it out there to think about.
Some type of picture library of "the good the bad and maybe it passes but it sure is ugly" would be very useful and I think a big draw. I like the thought of catagorizing pics, and maybe tagging them for easy searching if someone wants to dig down and look at particular things under a heading.
What prompted my comments initially ICE was your encouraging more pic posts similar to yours. I realized I had noticed whether a thread was started by you as I was deciding whether to open it. I think you're on the right track, with the way we are doing it I was ignoring a poster rather than a thread or topic.
I am amazed by the cameras now. Where the 12mb camera came in handy a week or two ago, I got a shot of an unknown insect boring an egg laying hole in a beam I was working. Zoomed in, blew it up till you could see what kind of shoes she was wearing, cropped the excess and compressed it a bit. I posted that on a bug forum and had a positive ID from a professor in 4 minutes. My old 2 meg camera could have never taken the shot and it sure wouldn't have blown up well.
The electrons do get tuckered out getting here, the old timers say the opry wouldn't get into this valley till Tuesday afternoon.
I think Daddy-O is hitting on one solution, loading pics to the forum and the reader clicks on the pic to view... I'm guilty of doing that and then posting the img link in my post to make it show, oops! I've done it the way ICE has done it most of the time just out of rote, loading the pic to photobucket and then posting the img tag. Either of those forces the pic to load each time. If we have pic threads the click on pic link would be a great way to let those of us with slow connections keep up, I'd only click on a new pic rather than waiting to load an entire thread of pics to see the new pic. I just loaded Darren Emery's pipe sleeve thread in 2 minutes and then clicked on the pic, which I saw was small and could load easily. Now with each new response I won't click on it again or have to wait for it to load.
ICE, don't delete a pic on my account, then I'm robbing others. My thoughts on this aren't gelled, I was just throwing it out there to think about.
Some type of picture library of "the good the bad and maybe it passes but it sure is ugly" would be very useful and I think a big draw. I like the thought of catagorizing pics, and maybe tagging them for easy searching if someone wants to dig down and look at particular things under a heading.
What prompted my comments initially ICE was your encouraging more pic posts similar to yours. I realized I had noticed whether a thread was started by you as I was deciding whether to open it. I think you're on the right track, with the way we are doing it I was ignoring a poster rather than a thread or topic.
I am amazed by the cameras now. Where the 12mb camera came in handy a week or two ago, I got a shot of an unknown insect boring an egg laying hole in a beam I was working. Zoomed in, blew it up till you could see what kind of shoes she was wearing, cropped the excess and compressed it a bit. I posted that on a bug forum and had a positive ID from a professor in 4 minutes. My old 2 meg camera could have never taken the shot and it sure wouldn't have blown up well.