Photo contributions

I will remember; thought width had to be 850...

i would like to say though that the internet yacht forums in general do not have enough participation at the moment to be having a problem with too many pics (as long as you visit regularly). We do not want to discourage people posting pics, there are way too many lurkers on the forums perhaps afraid to post cos they think that their knowledge is inferior to some of the regulars but in fact their contribution can be very useful. i personally love to see new pics of the same yachts in different ports. i like to see photos but most of all i like to see the photos in the context of a thread and at the same time learn something from the discussion which accompanies the photos rather than sifting through the webshots community. i personally do not buy all the magazines and books so perhaps that is why almost every thread and photo interests me.

Indeed with the major yachts it would be nice if once we have progressively covered all the close up special features of the yachts it would be nice to receive further pics which are more wide angle and show the yacht as the main subject but the port in the background. so we in essence travel the world with these yachts. this is the beauty of the spotting community, that we have a network of spotters around the world that can catch the yacht at each port call. we are larger in personnel and reach of our network, we are further ahead and faster to publish than the magazines but if you like to see pro shots only then visit the newsagent.

the quality of images should be relevant to their context, if they are new and exclusive then even a camera phone image i would like to see. if they are a picture of a production yacht then yes they should be perfectly exposed and composed. personally i enjoyed to see tantetruus' images.

but in the context of forums, what are we to do? delete the images from the threads which we do not like? that would not be nice. i like Carl's forums as opposed to the competition which have the photos being pre-approved before publishing. perhaps we can have threads on the major yachts which remain unedited with all the contributions and then also editors choice threads which are modded to remove all the unnecessary posts.

just my .02

I started this thread to respond to the discussion on the Pictures of Yacht Building Process thread. Which had wandered somewhat off topic.

In particular, techmati posted a very eloquent, well constructed, and persuasive argument from the "spotters" point of view (see post above) on photo contributions by our members. So - I'm wondering - why not just have a dedicated forum here for the spotters' contributions? Instead of piling everything in the General Yacht Discussion forum?

PS - feel free to restate your posts here guys if you would like

Kelly Cook

couldn't agree more.
as for old pictures; i for one would buy the cd...
(might be an idea, to produce a cd each year?)

THANKS Kevin. I'm also a member of that site, but was not aware of their photo gallery! (Old age ****s.) That gallery is nicely organized. However, I am not so comfortable with the structure where comments (or posts) are attached to individual photos. For me it is more enjoyable to have threads with multiple photos, and something of a more natural conversation. (Did that make sense?)

Kelly

COOL DEAL on merging in the posts from the other thread Carl. I've never seen that done before!

Kelly

Oh shoot. I was hoping it would be easier than repeated cut-and-paste (could have done that myself ) BTW, are we now OT again?

Kelly

Oh well. I guess I shouldn't post any of my pics